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The Kennedy Chronicles: The Golden Age of MTV Through Rose-Colored Glasses by Kennedy
epub |eng | 2013-07-30 | Author:Kennedy [Kennedy]

KURT UNPLUGS You know who else was as moody as Madonna? Kurt Cobain. If you wore cardigans, knocked up a heroin-addled Courtney Love, and tried unsuccessfully and repeatedly to kick ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians April 7,2019 )
Ladies Who Punch : The Explosive Inside Story of the View (9781250112101) by Setoodeh Ramin
epub |eng | | Author:Setoodeh, Ramin

13 Rosie vs. Donald As a talk show host, Rosie O’Donnell was skilled in identifying trends early. Sure enough, she tried to warn us about Donald Trump’s misogyny a decade ...
( Category: Television Performers April 2,2019 )
The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV by Stephen Tropiano
epub |eng | 2002-05-01 | Author:Stephen Tropiano [Tropiano, Stephen]

Buchanan’s moving story, which is eloquently delivered by Pringle, effectively makes an analogy between homophobia and racism. As I said in my introduction, the episode also delivers a more universal ...
( Category: LGBT April 26,2018 )
The New Gay for Pay: The Sexual Politics of American Television Production by Julia Himberg
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Julia Himberg [Himberg, Julia]

Figure 3.2. When Jenner announced her transition from male to female, she gave Vanity Fair an exclusive interview in which she revealed her name, Caitlyn, publicly. The media frenzy over ...
( Category: LGBT March 18,2018 )
American Idol by Richard Rushfield
epub |eng | 2011-02-27 | Author:Richard Rushfield [Rushfield, Richard]

One by one the divas fell. After Jennifer Hudson, LaToya London went out in fourth place until only Fantasia remained. In the end, it was Fantasia who endured after delivering ...
( Category: Shows June 7,2017 )
Letterman by Jason Zinoman
epub |eng | 2017-02-28 | Author:Jason Zinoman

9 THE TWO DAVES Steve O’Donnell was sitting in his office in Rockefeller Center when he saw a magazine advertising a top-ten list of eligible bachelors on the cover. It ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers April 15,2017 )
When Television Was Young: The Inside Story With Memories by Legends of the Small Screen
epub |eng | 2007-09-11 | Author:Ed McMahon & David Fisher [McMahon, Ed & Fisher, David]

OK, I’ll be going back to my chapter now. Eventually they picked Dave Garroway, an eccentric, laid-back, creative host of a Chicago talk-variety show, Garroway at Large. It was the ...
( Category: Shows February 24,2017 )
The Platinum Age of Television by David Bianculli
epub |eng | 2016-11-14 | Author:David Bianculli

ALL IN THE FAMILY 1971–79, CBS. Creator: Norman Lear. Stars: Carroll O’Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers. “The program you are about to see is All in the Family,” ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 28,2016 )
Brady, Brady, Brady by Sherwood Schwartz
epub |eng | | Author:Sherwood Schwartz

CHAPTER 32 MARCIA, MARCIA, MARCIA Dad deliberately didn’t want too many topical references in The Brady Bunch. He wanted our shows to be universal and not about what was happening ...
( Category: Shows September 25,2016 )
Psychology of the Simpsons by Brown Alan S
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-13 | Author:Brown, Alan S. [Brown, Alan S.]

Self-Discrepancy Theory Regardless of its basis, it is clear that humans will go to great lengths to attain and preserve positive self-esteem. The mental gymnastics underlying changes in self-esteem are ...
( Category: Shows April 21,2016 )
My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles by Peter Biskind
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Peter Biskind [Biskind, Peter]

14. “Art Buchwald drove it up Ronnie’s ass and broke it off.” In which Orson ridicules Ronald Reagan, explains why he lost his respect for Elia “Gadge” Kazan, and argues ...
( Category: Biographies April 2,2016 )
Leonard by William Shatner
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:William Shatner

EIGHT It was these conventions that kept the franchise alive and led to the movies and the various TV series. For several years, we’d been hearing rumors that Paramount was ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 18,2016 )
The Daily Show and Rhetoric by Trischa Goodnow
epub |eng | | Author:Trischa Goodnow

III Strategies Chapter Eight We Frame to Please: A Preliminary Examination of The Daily Show’s Use of Frames Penina Wiesman There has been a lot of buzz about Comedy Central’s ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies February 4,2016 )
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition by Jones Terry Dobrogoszcz Tomasz
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-26 | Author:Jones, Terry, Dobrogoszcz, Tomasz

Despite suggestions that the Gumbies can be interpreted as a satirical picture of television experts and an over-intellectualized British academia, it seems more feasible that, given the highly absurd dimension ...
( Category: Comedy December 27,2015 )
A Game of Thrones 01 - A Game Of Thrones by Martin R.R. George
epub |eng | 2009-05-16 | Author:Martin, R.R. George [Martin, R.R. George]

EDDARD He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen, and Lyanna in her bed of blood. In the dream his friends rode ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy November 26,2015 )

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