Show and tell
Subtitle: New Yorker profiles
By: John Lahr.
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Woodstock, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Entertainers -- United States -- Biography.; Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In Show and Tell, John Lahr reinvents the celebrity profile to get at the essence of performance. Lahr's profiles probe some of the most compelling, elusive, and irresistible public personas of our time, among them: Woody Allen, David Mamet, Ingmar Bergman, Frank Sinatra, Roseanne, Irving Berlin, Bob Hope, Mike Nichols, Wallace Shawn, Arthur Miller, and Neil LaBute.

In these, and the moving autobiographical portraits of his father, Bert Lahr, who was the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, and his mother, a former Ziegfeld girl, Lahr charts the geography of fame."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.