Stories My Father Told Me: Notes from "The Lyons Den" - Couverture rigide

Lyons, Jeffrey

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ISBN 10 : 0789211025 ISBN 13 : 9780789211026

Editeur : Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S., 2011

Synopsis

An incredible collection of celebrity stories and photographs from 1934 to the present, from the archives of "The Lyons Den" by eminent New York Post columnist Leonard Lyons, compiled by his son, movie critic Jeffrey Lyons

This amazing collection of choice anecdotes takes us right back to the Golden Age of New York City nightlife, when top restaurants like Toots Shor’s, “21,” and Sardi’s, as well as glittering nightclubs like the Stork Club, Latin Quarter, and El Morocco, were the nightly gathering spots for great figures of that era: movie and Broadway stars, baseball players, champion boxers, comedians, diplomats, British royalty, prize-winning authors, and famous painters. From Charlie Chaplin to Winston Churchill, from Ethel Barrymore to Sophia Loren, from George Burns to Ernest Hemingway, from Joe DiMaggio to the Duke of Windsor: Leonard Lyons knew them all. For forty glorious years, from 1934 to 1974, he made the daily rounds of Gotham nightspots, collecting the exclusive scoops and revelations that were at the core of his famous newspaper column, “The Lyons Den.” In this entertaining volume Jeffrey Lyons has assembled a considerable compilation of anecdotes from his father’s best columns, and has also contributed a selection of his own interviews with stars of today, including Penélope Cruz and George Clooney, among others. Organised chronologically by decade and subdivided by celebrity, Stories My Father Told Me offers fascinating, amusing stories that are illustrated by approximately seventy photographs. He so captured the tenor of those exciting times that the great Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg said: “Imagine how much richer American history would have been had there been a Leonard Lyons in Lincoln’s time.”

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<div>Jeffrey Lyons grew up in a home visited by many of the greats of his father’s time. His forty-year career continues in television, radio, and print. A movie critic and baseball book author, Lyons has acted in two films, reviewed more than 15,000 movies and hundreds of Broadway plays, broadcast baseball for the Red Sox, and interviewed virtually every major star of his own time. Lyons co-hosted three national movie review shows: <I>Sneak Previews, MSNBC's At the Movies,</I> and <I>Reel Talk</I>. Jeffrey Lyons is also the co-author of <I>101 Great Movies for Kids</I> and three baseball trivia books. He hopes to see his beloved Red Sox win another World Series. Soon.<BR> <BR>Charles Osgood, often referred to as <I>CBS News</I>'s poet-in-residence, has been anchor of <I>CBS News Sunday Morning</I> since 1994. He also anchors and writes "The Osgood File," his daily news commentary broadcast on the CBS Radio Network.<BR> </div>

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0789211025
• ISBN 13: 9780789211026
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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