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Honky Tonk Parade: New Yorker Profiles of Show People
John Lahr
From the distinguished New Yorker critic, a brilliant collection of essays about some of the most provocative cultural icons of our time.
Overlook
October 2005
240 pages ISBN: 1585677035 Hardcover
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Here is John Lahr--"the most intelligent and insightful
writer on theatre today" (The New York Times)--at his
trenchant best, reinventing the celebrity profile. Honky-
Tonk Parade illuminates some of the compelling, elusive,
and important artists of our time, who talk to Lahr with
rare candor. His portraits weave together biography,
anecdote, and shrewd interpretation. On the roster of
greats are Dame Edna, Steve Buscemi, August Wilson, Cole
Porter, Dame Judi Dench, Ang Lee, Billy Connolly, Kenneth
Tynan, Yip Harburg, Mira Nair, Baz Luhrmann, Laurence
Fishburne, Bill Hicks, Richard Rodgers, and Tony Kushner.
Honky-Tonk Parade, like the icons whose lives and work it
so meticulously chronicles, corrupts an audience with
pleasure.
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