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Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice
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This delightful memoir by acclaimed film director Paul Mazursky is not strictly an autobiography. Rather, it's a series of anecdotes told without regard to chronological order--a fluid, surprising structure that allows Mazursky to focus on the highlights of his life. He tells tales of directing cinema celebrities, stories about his family members, and accounts of his work as an actor and writer, all with equal humor and facility. As the picture of his remarkable journey from Brownsville, Brooklyn, to the Hollywood director's chair develops, we visit the sets of I Love You, Alice B. Toklas, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, An Unmarried Woman, Tempest, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Moscow on the Hudson, and Enemies: A Love Story.
Mazursky offers wonderfully comic views of his grandparents, Orson Welles, Danny Kaye, Peter Sellers, John Cassavetes, Stanley Kubrick, and many others, including the great Italian director Federico Fellini, whose correspondence he publishes here. In the most fascinating and poignant chapter, entitled "The Ones I Never Made," Mazursky talks about film scripts the studios never greenlighted. Show Me the Magic relates the triumphs and failures, the insights and joys, in the remarkable life of a veteran film director. --Raphael Shargel
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Paul Mazursky -- writer, film director, actor, and producer -- has created a body of work over the past thirty years that has established him as one of America's most respected and admired filmmakers. His films are often personal, intimate, and humorous observations of the human condition.
In Show Me the Magic, Mazursky brings that same unique gift to his memoir, as he takes us behind the scenes and literally shows us the magic of a career that boasts such cinematic triumphs as Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Harry and Tonto, Tempest, An Unmarried Woman, and Down and Out in Beverly Hills, as well as providing warm, touching, and very human portraits of many of Hollywood's legends, including Peter Sellers, Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Federico Fellini, John Cassavetes, Orson Welles, and many, many more.
Born in Brownsville, Mazursky started performing in school, and in college landed his first leading role in an off-Broadway production. Shortly after that, Mazursky was cast in Stanley Kubrick's first film, Fear and Desire, and then two years later this Jewish kid from Brooklyn appeared as a juvenile delinquent in Blackboard Jungle, starring Sidney Poitier. When stardom didn't immediately follow, Paul turned to comedy, first as part of a comedy team playing the New York clubs, then to writing for Danny Kaye.
Mazursky got into feature films when his screenplay (with Larry Tucker) for I Love You, Alice B. Toklas was made starring Dr. Strangelove himself, Peter Sellers. It was an experience Mazursky would not soon forget, a trial by fire for his introduction to filmmaking. Sellers, as brilliant as he was crazy, did everything from accuse Mazursky of sleeping with his wife, Britt Ekland, to forbidding the color purple to be worn on his movie sets. ("Purple is death," he would shriek, and offending cast and crew would have to rush to change their clothes.)
Mazursky then made his smashing directorial debut with the then-risqué and now classic Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. A long list of successful films followed, among them Harry and Tonto (with an Oscar-winning performance by Art Carney); the blockbuster hit Down and Out in Beverly Hills (starring Nick Nolte and Bette Midler), and Enemies, A Love Story (which earned him a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director).
In Show Me the Magic, Mazursky recounts his close friendship with famed Italian director Federico Fellini, whom Mazursky met while trying to persuade Fellini to appear in his film Alex in Wonderland; his improvised "argument" scene with Henry Jaglom in a never-released film directed by Orson Welles, as Welles, egging Mazursky on, plied him with brandy and cigars; directing the orgy scene in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice -- will they or won't they? everyone wondered as Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon, Natalie Wood, and Robert Culp climbed into the king-sized bed on the closed set (there wasn't much to worry about -- Gould wore two pairs of underpants to bed); discovering that Little Richard, appearing as the neighbor in Down and Out in Beverly Hills, was Jewish and that the singer couldn't work on the Sabbath because he had to be in temple to conduct services; being befriended by a possible KBG agent while touring Moscow as part of the research for the Robin Williams film Moscow on the Hudson, and much, much more.
Written with genuine wit and an overriding sense of affection for the people he has worked with, Show Me the Magic is a feast for fans of films and of celebrities. In addition to being a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movies, there is a very human look at the bigger than life people with whom Mazursky has worked. And of course, there is Paul Mazursky's own story as well -- a tale of struggle and success and a joy in having been able to live a life so full of creativity and personal happiness and satisfaction. Anecdotal, personal, warm, and frequently very, very funny, Show Me the Magic is a special treat for lovers of film and of witty biography.
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I would have liked to have seen more!.......2002-09-21
I loved reading this book, both from the standpoint of appreciating Paul Mazursky the director of many of my favorite films and reveling in Paul Mazursky the no-holds-barred storyteller. But--and, I'm sorry, there is a 'but'---why devote one sentence to the great Art Carney, who Mazursky calls the most pure actor he'd ever worked with, and then not tell the reader WHY he feels that way about Carney? There are no anecdotes to share about Jill Clayburgh or Robin Williams? Come on, Paul, give! This lapse is mostly compensated for by Mazursky's tales of traveling in the "then" Soviet Union and South America, his memories of working for Danny Kaye and his sharing the bitter and the sweet about his family, his friends and the ups and downs of his life. The chapter about Mazursky's relationship with his mother is especially powerful and a reminder that much of the pathos within even his funniest films came honestly to him. So, five stars for what's here---just would've liked to have seen more!
Very Enjoyable, Recommended for Movie Buffs.......2000-03-02
I don't believe I've seen more than two of Mazursky's films but I enjoyed his book, especially the juicy chapter on his adventures with the increasingly more bizarre Peter Sellers. This is not a biography, but rather a series of essays about his involvement with different Hollywood people and some chapters about his current life and childhood. Recommended.
The Mensch (not the Mouse) Behind The Movies.......1999-06-13
An interesting, light and witty Summer read that gives you insight into Mazursky's career and tales of movie production. Mazursky, born in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn started out as an actor (Blackboard Jungle), moved on to be a comedy writer (Danny Kaye, I Love You Alice B Toklas) when acting parts were infrequent, and made his directorial debut with Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice. My favorite scenes in the book? When a young Mazursky catches his zade eating his bubbe's herring on the afternoon of Yom Kippur; when Eisner and Katzenberg ask Mazursky if he thinks that the I.B. Singer story (Enemies, A Love Story) is too Jewish... maybe it can be about the Cambodian Holocaust instead of the WWII one; when Richard Dreyfus pulls out of the Enemies project; and the creation of Down&Out in Beverly Hills.
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Show Me the Magic
Annie Caulfield
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An absolute Gem!.......2003-05-09
Bill Bryson meets Freya Stark... what a precious book! Caulfield has this rare ability to inform and entertain all at once. Her delightful tongue-in-cheek humour, her keen eye for detail and thorough understanding of local affairs and politics is priceless. I laughed my head off. Very best female travel author I have read. Buy it!
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This book is packed full of exciting ideas which combine craft fun, learning and play. Children who love to use their hands to create things can learn painting, cooking ,cutting, pasting or dressing up. Making things will help children find out more about the world around them as well as having fun. Budding musicians will learn how to make their own instruments and discover a whole new range of sounds to explore. Would-be gardeners can grow juicy strawberries or a creepy-crawly spider plant, and the planting activities will give children great satisfaction when they see their first flower or fruit. The artistic child will enjoy making their own feather head-dress, wooden spoon puppets, a printed T-shirt and colorful stationery. For young scientists there are simple experiments which are great fun to do, and will answer children's questions about light, sound, electricity and water. All the projects are simple and fun with over 100 activities accompanied by over 600 full-color photographs.
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A great Little Kids Can Do!.......2000-04-29
This wonderfully photographed book shows young children how to build a variety of easy, classic magic effects and combine these into a nicely structured magical performance. Emphasis is placed on respecting the traditions of magic--protecting the "secrets", practice makes perfect, and having lots of fun! Best of all, it shows *kids* making and performing the effects. A great introductory book to the wonderful world of MAGIC!
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Show Me the Magic: My Adventures in Life and Hollywood With
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Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst adored her. Between 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons was America's premier movie gossip columnist and in her heyday commanded a following of more than forty million readers. This first full-length biography of Parsons tells the story of her reign over Hollywood during the studio era, her lifelong alliance with her employer, William Randolph Hearst, and her complex and turbulent relationships with such noted stars, directors, and studio executives as Orson Welles, Joan Crawford, Louis B. Mayer, Ronald Reagan, and Frank Sinatra--as well as her rival columnists Hedda Hopper and Walter Winchell. Loved by fans for her "just folks," small-town image, Parsons became notorious within the film industry for her involvement in the suppression of the 1941 film Citizen Kane and her use of blackmail in the service of Hearst's political and personal agendas. As she traces Parsons's life and career, Samantha Barbas situates Parsons's experiences in the broader trajectory of Hollywood history, charting the rise of the star system and the complex interactions of publicity, journalism, and movie-making. Engagingly written and thoroughly researched, The First Lady of Hollywood is both an engrossing chronicle of one of the most powerful women in American journalism and film and a penetrating analysis of celebrity culture and Hollywood power politics.
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The Queen of Smut.......2007-04-11
This book was surprisingly interesting about the life of screen gossip Louella Parsons and her shenanians in tinseltown. I thoughoutly enjoyed it. This would make an interesting movie.
Not a page-turner, but authentic.......2006-12-12
I grew up the the 1950s and bought every movie magazine with articles by Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper that my meager allowance would afford me. Dr. Barbas has produced an academic, thoroughly researched work (there are a ton of footnotes)with the ring of authenticity to it. Fingers crossed that she devotes equal time to Hedda Hopper.
Gossip Queen To The Star System of Forties........2006-10-21
In the Fifties, there was a rivalry of sorts between gossip queens Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons -- take your pick. Ms. Parson was a premier movie gossip columnist until 1960 for the Randolph Hearst yellow journalism media. She was a tough woman who used blackmail when it aided her gossip mongering during the studio control of the industry's publicity; it is thought that she was also involved in the blacklisting of some of the major stars during the McCarthy fiasco.
Working for Hearst, a superego who built a mansion at San Simeon for his mistress, Marion Davies, Louella was involved in every aspect of their lives there on Route 1 of California and L. A. He was a silly old man. Her husband, Dr. Martin died at the age of 61, though his photo showed him looking twenty years older due no less to the kind of lifestyle they lived. She went into decline and relied on alcohol to keep going. Hearst's daughter lived dangerously for a while on drugs before marrying her bodyguard.
Hedda Hopper's popularity was mainly on television although her syndicated gossip columns appeared in Chicago and New York papers, like Landers and Abby. Now, would you believe, the gossip queens are Joan and Melissa Rivers! Who would have thought it? Walter Winchell may have been a columnist back then, but not the gossipy kind like goday's Oliver Reed and Truman Capote. No one was sancasant from these monsters of divulging confidential information about any and every movie actor/actress except for their sexual leaning. That was not allowed in the 30s, 40s, and 50s by the big studios who kept everyone in the closet and presented false images for most if not all of them.
LOLLY, Hollywoods First Protector.......2006-03-13
I have waited over twenty years for an indepth book of Louella Parsons, and while there were alot of "the usual supects" including the deaths of Thomas Ince and Paul Bern- Ms. Barbas did a great deal of homework and the beginings of Louella's life has stuff I never heard before. While she generously throws in all the contrary things said about Louella's career, she also gives this journalist her due,and does not act like someone pulled her teeth to do it.
Ministry of Fear.......2006-03-10
For Christmas a good friend gave me this exceiting biography (Hi there Mac!) and ever since New Years I've been on a race to finish it. But some books are so good you don't like them to end, and for the past few weeks I've been envying my former self who still had the whole book in front of him instead of a rapidly dwindling few.
Louella Parsons was a woman or iron determination who summoned up the inner strength to leave her shame behind in the small town where she'd grown up, and go to New York where nobody would know her. With her she had a second husband and a small daughter, Harriet, who quietly like a pet, watched her mother with a mixture of fondness and venom. I wonder if Harriet the Spy was named after her! It sounds improbable on the face of it but both HTS author Louise Fitzhugh and Harriet Parsons formed part of the same glamorous Lesbian New York underground in the late 1950s, early 1960s, the years of Harriet's inception. Anyhow Louella soon rose to the top of the Hearst newspaper empire by a unbeatable combination of loyalty, native smarts, and an earnest brown-nosing that is almost endearing to view today, although how it must have irked her professional rivals way back then.
Samantha Barbas is no John Didion but she lays out the facts with a great deal of skill. She has done her homework (and even conducted a handful of new interviews, such as one with Mamie Van Doren, a Hollywood starlet who claims to have been one of Louella's victims. For Louella (I suppose I should call her "Parsons") was very much a bogeyman, a prop employed by the studio system to keep errant stars in line. She crucified Orson Welles, who had the temerity not only to make a jackass out of Hearst in CITIZEN KANE but also to lie about it to Parsons' face. "It deals with a dead man," he told her when she pressed him about the rumors that KANE was going to be a demolition of Hearst. She never forgave left-wing leaning stars like Chaplin. And yet she had a soft side and people could cozy up to her, particularly the unpleasant songwriter Jimmy McHugh. Samantha Barbas shows us how McHugh "dated" Parsons for years, always stringing her along, never actually taking her emotional needs seriously but palming her off with a ditty called "Louella" which made her feel like a schoolgirl. It's a shame a once distinguished press like UC Berkeley can't afford a proofreader nowadays. Or else Dr. Barbas isn't very familiar with the stars of Hollywood--Parsons' beat--otherwise she wouldn't have written "Frederic March," would she?
But what she's terrific at is discovering the roots and the extent of Parsons' feminism, which went far and wide and early. Even before women's suffrage (1920) Parsons was in there fighting for women's rights, and she did help a lot of women journalists find their way. Good for her, too bad she turned into a tragic old harridan figure, half Miss Havisham, half Cassandra, nearly forgotten by the time of her death. I feel sure that THE FIRST LADY OF HOLLYWOOD will remain the standard biography for at least the next few years, for what could supplant it? Anyone writing in the future on Parsons will be like a pygmy standing on the shoulders of a giant.
I hope Dr. Barbas continues to give us more, perhaps next she should turn to the life of Harriet Parsons and clear up the speculations about "Harriet the Spy"?
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This is the first full-length biography of Irene Dunne, one of the most versatile actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. A recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors award in 1985, Dunne's acting highlights include five Best Actress Oscar nominations, occurring in almost as many different genres: the Western Cimarron (1931), two screwball comedies: Theodora Goes Wild (1936) and The Awful Truth (1937), the romantic comedy Love Affair (1939), and the populist I Remember Mama (1948).
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A Thesis not a Biography.......2005-09-11
If you want a university style thesis on Irene Dunne, then you will be happy with this highly priced book. It is analytical as you might expect from an academic but the author has failed to make a story out of it. This makes for a very tedious read. Refer to the biography of Alice Faye to see how well it can be done.
Margie Shultz, in her bio-bibliography of Dunne, does a much better job. The biography of Irene Dunne is yet to be written.
"Well Dunne" of a Book!.......2005-02-21
I think this book is excellent for students and people who are discovering the world of classic Hollywood. It goes into detail without getting "too personal". Please realize that this book is intended for educational purposes (although it is entertaining at points about her life).
If anyone wants to know more about Irene Dunne personally, then you should start collecting old movie magazines from the 1930s to the present. Otherwise, I would recommend this piece of well-written art, to anyone who is willing to learn about a great actress and a great human-being! Thanks for your tribute to Irene, Prof. Gehring. Since she didn't write a book herself, there are lots of us fans who really appreciate your hard work (not to mention how envious we are that you got to talk to her). We commend you!
Tepid Dunne Biography, Not Worth the Price!.......2004-10-18
For the exhorbitant price of $45.00 and higher, I expected a nice coffee-table style book chronicling Dunne's career and her life as well, loaded with pictures. This is not what I received.
What I received was a 178 page synopsis style of Dunne's non-scandalous life (rare for a Hollywood star...she was married to the same man for 45 years!! Amen to that...refreshing...) devoted to her family, a jewel to work with, and never gave a bad performance. Along with Barbara Stanwyck she was the best actress never to have received an academy award (she was nominated five times).
However, the author skims over Dunne's life, briefly analyzes the periods of her career and says almost nothing of Dunne's later years!! There Are a few pictures in the middle insert...but none of Dunne as a child or as a mature woman.
Irene Dunne was a classy lady who deserves better than what she gets here...a tepid, rushed biography (which doesn't even include a dust jacket) finely printed on glossy paper with the high price that is just not worth it. I'm sorry I bought it as I really learned nothing new about Dunne that I didn't already know. This book is acceptable at perhaps $7.95. $45.00??? Ridiculous! Trust me!
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Foundations of International Macroeconomics is an innovative text that offers the first integrative modern treatment of the core issues in open economy macroeconomics and finance. With its clear and accessible style, it is suitable for first-year graduate macroeconomics courses as well as graduate courses in international macroeconomics and finance. Each chapter incorporates an extensive and eclectic array of empirical evidence. For the beginning student, these examples provide motivation and aid in understanding the practical value of the economic models developed. For advanced researchers, they highlight key insights and conundrums in the field.
Topic coverage includes intertemporal consumption and investment theory, government spending and budget deficits, finance theory and asset pricing, the implications of (and problems inherent in) international capital market integration, growth, inflation and seignorage, policy credibility, real and nominal exchange rate determination, and many interesting special topics such as speculative attacks, target exchange rate zones, and parallels between immigration and capital mobility.
Most main results are derived both for the small country and world economy cases. The first seven chapters cover models of the real economy, while the final three chapters incorporate the economy's monetary side, including an innovative approach to bridging the usual chasm between real and monetary models.
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Hmm. Decent.......2005-10-18
I laughed, I cried. Of course this is just an macro econ book for grad students for open econ. Builds up very gradual. But could have been written better. Don't expect any climatic love story for Autarky rates. But I enjoyed Romer's Macroecon book more, because it includes more case studies on certain theories. Since you will be reading this book for a grad class, you really have no choice, you got to buy this book, if you want to pass the prelims.
Excellent Textbook.......2005-03-08
International economics is not my field, even if I do find it interesting. As a graduate student, I liked this book a lot. It is not brilliantly written, and it is at times rather dull reading. BUT it a VERY clear and modern treatment of an important subject by two of the best scholars in the field. Overall, it's a very "user-friendly" graduate textbook. Not very entertaining, but it allows you to go through the material (much of it rather advanced) without too much pain, and without many leaps of faith (or pages of algebra) to go from one equation to the next. And there are many well developed applications which will help you see how the theory relates to the real world. There are many exercises to test your (or your students') knowledge of the field, whose solutions are also separately available.
Being this a graduate textbook, reading it requires a strong technical background, so if you are simply looking for a book to deepen your knowledge of a subject that you may only know through op-ed pieces, you should probably look elsewhere (e.g. undergraduate textbooks such as Krugman and Obstfeld). But if you are looking for an advanced but approachable and modern treatment of international macro, this book would be a very good bet. Highly recommended.
Here are some details about the book:
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1 Intertemporal Trade and the Current Account Balance
2 Dynamics of Small Open Economies
3 The Life Cycle, Tax Policy, and the Current Account
4 The Real Exchange Rate and the Terms of Trade
5 Uncertainty and International Financial Markets
6 Imperfections in International Capital Markets
7 Global Linkages and Economic Growth
8 Money and Exchange Rates under Flexible Prices
9 Nominal Price Rigidities: Empirical Facts and Basic Open-Economy Models
10 Sticky-Price Models of Output, the Exchange Rate, and the Current Account
Some examples of the applications
- Energy Prices, Global Saving, and Real Interest Rates
- The Relative Impact of Productivity Shocks on Investment and the Current Account
- Do Government Budget Deficits Cause Current Account Deficits?
- Feldstein and Horioka's Saving-Investment Puzzle
- Government Debt and World Interest Rates Since 1970
- Sectoral Productivity Differentials and the Relative Prices of Nontradables in Industrial Countries
- Productivity Growth and Real Exchange Rates
- International Portfolio Diversification and the Home Bias Puzzle
- How Large Are the Gains from International Risk Sharing?
- How Costly Is Exclusion from World Insurance Markets?
- How Have Prior Defaults Affected Countries Borrowing Terms?
- Can Capital Deepening Be an Engine of Sustained High Growth Rates: Evidence from Fast-Growing East Asia
- Population Size and Growth
- Testing for Speculative Bubbles
- Central Bank Independence and Inflation
- Openness and Inflation
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- Methods of Intertemporal Optimization
- A Model with Intertemporally Nonadditive Preferences
- Solving Systems of Linear Difference Equations
- Multiperiod Portfolio Selection
- Continuous-Time Maximization and the Maximum Principle
a must-have for your private library.......2002-10-13
Currently I'm using this book for my class called Trade and Economic Growth I II. The nuances of microeconomic foundations found in chapters 1 to 5 are used to explain and develop the concepts studied in open economy macroeconomics and international finance; so it is recommended that you understand fully the first three chapters of this book at least to understand the rest. The authors try to explain the concepts as clear as possible; however, you have to derive for yourself the equations that appear in the text, which is a challenge for most first year graduate students who are not yet proficient in using the tools of static/dynamic optimization, etc. A reference on mathematical economics such as Chiang's "Fundamental methods of math. econ.," and "Elements of dynamic optimization," or Simon Blume's "Mathematics for economists" should be kept near at hand. Nevertheless, there are many real-world examples that help clarify matters and make the this book more readable and interesting.
Coherent synthesis of modern open economy macro literature.......1998-12-10
The authors recognized the problems with the way that the subject of open economy macroeconomics has been taught in graduate programs in the past. In particular, there was little agreement and no definitive text that tied together any unified theme. Eclectic reading lists, mainly from the 1960's and the 1970's, were provided on each subject area with major changes in analysis required to shift from one area to another. The counter argument from others in the field was that the modern literature lacked policy relevance. The authors' retort by claiming that the "classic approach" lacks internal consistency and the micro foundations required. Moreover, the older approach has been criticized for failing to deal with dynamics clearly and does not address many of the policy issues that are relevant today. With the exception of two chapters on money the text builds up from a single analytical framework to display several of the key results in international macroeconomics and growth. A rigorous approach based on the micro foundations of macroeconomics is used throughout the text. While this approach may be criticized for putting forward only a Neoclassical method, the authors have made an effort to include models of imperfections and some material based on Keynesian underpinnings. The text gives a current appreciation of the state of the literature in the field and as such is an excellent reference tool. The authors' vigilance in updating the material in the text via the web site is particularly appealing as it keeps it contemporary. For the targeted consumer: the graduate student (like myself) and certainly the academic, the level of sophistication is not prohibitive.
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