By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! (@AKessaris) “The songs were composed with sundry goals in mind, producing great art barley being one of them. But the songs – the best of them, anyway – took on lives of their own: it turned out they lent themselves to being interpreted in different styles and with different […]
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Shirley Jones: A Memoir by Shirley Jones with Wendy Leigh (Gallery Books, $29.99)
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! Here’s a story for you: Shy, pretty small-town girl enters beauty contest as a lark and to her surprise wins. That leads to an audition for a part in the chorus of a Broadway show where she is discovered […]
Moneywood by William Stadiem (St. Martin’s Press, $31)
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up Hollywood has long been divided into different “eras” or “ages” often referred to as “Golden” or “Great.” It is probably Hollywood itself that created those names in order to sell movie tickets and create interest in and increase the value of film their vast film vaults. I came of […]