The spectator
Subtitle: talk about movies and plays with the people who make them
By: Studs Terkel
Publisher: New Press; The New Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781565845534; 9781565846333
Subjects: Entertainers; Interviews; Biography; Dramatists; Protected DAISY
Description: "Few of Studs Terkel's millions of readers around the world know that over the last forty-five years, as part of his nationally syndicated radio show, Terkel has interviewed some of the greatest luminari of film and theater. The Spectator collects those interviews in print for the first time."--BOOK JACKET.

"The Spectator gives us a firsthand look at the actors, directors, playwrights, dancers, lyricists, and others who have created the dramatic arts of the past half-century. And, because Studs knows his subjects' work intimately, he asks precisely the questions that elicit the most revealing responses."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Overture; title: Prologue: morning, noon, and night (with Jack Kirkland); title: Act One. Beginnings. In the wings (with Francois Truffaut). Buster Keaton. Lillian Gish. King Vidor. Vittorio De Sica; title: Say it with music. Eubie Blake. Agnes DeMille. Carol Channing (and Talluah Bankhead); title: Hard Times. Arthur Miller. Eva LeGallienne. Hiram (Chub) Sherman. E.Y. (Yip) Harburg. Harold Clurman.; title: Chicago Boom-Boom. James Cagney; title: War. War movies. On seeing The Deer Hunter. Pauline Kael; title: O Death. Lila Kedrova. Reflections on The Last Mile and Watch on the Rhine. John Randolph on Alfred Lunt; title: Kindness of strangers. Tennessee Williams (and Claudia Cassidy). Geraldine Page. Marlon Brando; title: Act Two. Ways of seeing. Federico Fellini (and Marcello Mastroianni and Alain Cuny). Rene Clair. Satyajit Ray (and Ravi Shankar); title: Ways of doing. Francoise Rosay. Ruth Gordon. Simone Signoret; title: Ways of seeing II. Ian McKellan. Jonathan Miller; title: A touch of Shaw. Sybil Thorndike. Robert Morley; title: Bert and Sam: Brecht and Beckett. Kenneth Tynan (and Peter Hall). Lotte Lenya (and Arnold Sundgaard). Joan Littlewood. Alan Schneider. Gilbert Moses (and Joe Lattimore). Rick Cluchey. E.G. Marshall; title: Act Three. Solo flight. Ruth Draper. Emlyn Williams. Hal Holbrook; title: Out of the shadows. Moms Mabley. Lorraine Hansberry. James Baldwin. August Wilson (and Clifford Burke); title: Success. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Uta Hagen; title: Winners and losers. William Saroyan (and Bill Veeck). Jose Quintero. Jose Quintero and Jason Robards. E.G. Marshall. Edward Albee; title: The Clowns. Marcel marceau. Jacques Tati. Zero Mostel (and Eugene Ionesco); title: Epilogue. Burr Tillstrom.