This Cowardly Lion actor's son & biographer, John, writes on comedy for the New Yorker
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Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr: John Lahr ...  Editorial Reviews. Review. "A book-length love letter. To open it is to enter a life, to participate ... "This is a biography of the late Bert Lahr, that clown-comedian who played .... I got as much out of this book as I did in reading an Actor Prepares. ... been penned by Bert Lahr's son, John Lahr, theatre critic at The New Yorker.
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John Lahr - Wikipedia  John Henry Lahr (born July 12, 1941) is a British-based American theater critic, and the son of actor Bert Lahr. Since 1992, he has been the senior drama critic at The New Yorker ... Lahr also wrote the foreword to Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines, a 1994 collection of Bill Hicks's work. In 2002, Lahr became the...
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Bert Lahr - Wikipedia  Bert Lahr, born Irving Lahrheim (August 13, 1895  December 4, 1967), was an American actor, particularly of stage and film and comedian. Lahr is principally known for his role as the Cowardly Lion, as well as his ... In his book Notes on a Cowardly Lion, John Lahr (Bert's son) states that the problems .... Biography portal...
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Biographer John Lahr dishes on Tennessee Williams - Times Union  Oct 2, 2014 ... John Lahr illuminates a man 'who couldn't write a bad sentence' ... The former New Yorker chief drama critic, John Lahr, dissects the workaholic ... "I had a young son, it would require me to be away from him and I knew it was ... a Cowardly Lion" about his father, the actor and comedian Bert Lahr, who was...
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BIOGRAPHY - John Lahr - writer, critic, theatre reviewer, novelist ...  Lahr, himself the son of a great clown, understands comedy and clowns from the inside; ... Winner of the Roger Machell Prize for Excellence in Writing about the Performing Arts. ... hilarious pictures of bobby-soxer hysteria at New York's Paramount Theatre to William ... Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr...
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Groucho - The New York Times  ... as well as in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. ... and they recall the outrageous comedian of some forty years before capering in films, ... I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
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Ah, Wilderness! - Eugene O'Neill's 'Only Comedy'  The Protagonist ...  May 13, 2015 ... Eugene O'Neill was born in 1888 in New York, the son of Irish actor James O'Neill, and spent much of his early youth touring with him, being...
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Secondhand Lions - Wikipedia  Secondhand Lions, a 2003 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tim ... comedy-drama film written and directed by Tim McCanlies, tells the story of an introverted young boy (Haley Joel Osment) who is sent to live with his eccentric great-uncles (Robert Duvall and Michael Caine) on a farm in Texas. The film...
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J! Archive - Show #4364, aired 2003-07-17  Jim Cairl, a stay-at-home dad from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash ... While Archimedes was thinking up inventions, this Carthaginian was thinking of ... a word or action that prompts an actor to remember when to speak or make an entrance ... with the theatre that it's found in the name of an Anthony Newley musical...
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Ben Stiller - Wikipedia  Benjamin Edward Meara "Ben" Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is the son of veteran comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. After beginning his acting career with a play, Stiller wrote several mockumentaries .... Titled The Ben Stiller Show, this series mixed comedy sketches with music...
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Waugh Stories - The New Yorker  Jul 2, 2007 ... The second was Evelyn (1903-66), the greatest comic novelist of the twentieth century. ... Fathers and Sons is witty, in the Waugh manner, but it is also ... He and Alec wrote to each other daily, and Arthur awaited Alec's letters, ... (Because of The Loom of Youth, he couldn't go to his brother's school.)...
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J! Archive - Show #4724, aired 2005-03-03  Mar 3, 2005 ... Title adjective describing Dion's "Sue" .... The title characters of this Chekhov play also have a brother named Andrey...
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Cowardly Lion | Oz Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia  The Cowardly Lion is a fictional animal character created by L. Frank Baum, author ... saving Dorothy and his friends from many near death experiences in Oz. .... for his portrayal of the iconic Lion in the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz. Lahr's ... He then moves the hogs into the pig pen and pours feed into their trough and...
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J! Archive - Show #5016, aired 2006-06-05  Jun 5, 2006 ... America's first literary lion, this "History of New York" author mentored .... In Aristotelian philosophy, it's the godlike source of all activity in the...
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Paper Lion (film) - Wikipedia  Paper Lion is a 1968 sports comedy film starring Alan Alda as writer George Plimpton, based on Plimpton's 1966 nonfiction book of the same name depicting his tryout with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. The film premiered in Detroit on October 2, 1968 and was released ... The movie depicts five plays when Plimpton is permitted to quarterback the...
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View Nol Coward art prices and auction results | Invaluable  Lot 23: Noel Coward photograph signed by actor, playwright, composer, and theater great ... a play he wrote and was immediately recognized by critics for his talent and wit. ... Design for Living, Blithe Spirit, This Happy Breed, and Peace in Our Time. ..... without dustwrapper; 'Whittlebot, Hernia' [Coward, Nol] Chelsea buns.
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Roth's Real Father Likes His Books - The New York Times  Oct 26, 1983 ... erman Roth was talking about his son the novelist. "You want to know what he's really like? ... "Well, quote him." ... New York and to show that the library needs many more talented authors like Philip writing books." ... Roth said he is not sad to part with the character who is his literary alter ego in many ways.
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Book Portrays J.F.K. as Reckless and Immoral - The New York Times  Nov 9, 1997 ... The Dark Side of Camelot, new book by Seymour M Hersh, relentlessly tries to demythologize John F Kennedy; it is collection of exposes, ... Book Portrays J.F.K. as Reckless and Immoral. By BARRY BEARAK NOV. 9, 1997 ... the so-called Cusack papers -- until forensic experts concluded they were fake.
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Patience and Fortitude: Power, Real Estate, and the ... - Amazon.com  Editorial Reviews. Review. Gripping...a slim, smart book packed with a colorful cast of moguls, ... Scholars, researchers, and readers would be out of luck, but real estate .... A pair of marble lions guards the Fifth Avenue entrance of the 42nd Street library; their ..... Tragic and infuriated could be alternate names for the lions.
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J! Archive - Show #10, aired 1984-09-21  He celebrated his 39th birthday 41 times ... Burt Lancaster film in which his only friends were feathered ... He wrote "The 3 Musketeers"; his son wrote "Camille"...
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Wendy Wasserstein and the Art of Being Funny - The New Yorker  Apr 14, 1997 ... The writer is Wendy Wasserstein, and the others are characters she ... In Bachelor Girls, a 1990 collection of personal essays, Wasserstein wrote that she was .... made famous by the play of that title by John Guarewho is a friend of ... though: the sun may be shining now, but you know that pretty soon it's...