Barnaby and Me - Couverture souple

Sheldon, Linn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1886228426 ISBN 13 : 9781886228429

Editeur : Gray & Company, Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

Amazing true stories from a pioneer of children's television — a remarkable mix of hilarity, melancholy, irony, and warmth …

For 32 years, he was a six-foot-tall elf named Barnaby. That was the character Linn Sheldon played on Cleveland television, to the delight of three generations of children―and many grownups, too. The role made him a celebrity and defined an entire era of local TV.

Barnaby was a masterful storyteller who spun imaginative tales out of thin air. But no story Linn Sheldon ever invented for Barnaby even compares with the real-life script he lived himself.

He was caught in a Texas tornado, trapped in quicksand, and survived an airplane fire. He was accused of bank robbery and performed stand-up comedy at the point of a gangster’s gun. He was fathered by a drifter, orphaned at birth by his mother’s death, and later abandoned as a small, lonely child to fend mostly for himself. He quit high school to hitchhike across the country with little more than a banjo, and landed among the glitter of Hollywood with a job on the lot of MGM studios.

He fell in love―again and again. He broke into stage acting, helped invent television programming in the earliest days of Cleveland’s first TV station, and became a celebrity. He made a lot of money―and lost most of it, as he drank away his health and the love of the people he cared about the most.

He sobered up, fought ill health, and fell in love again.

In these 29 stories Linn Sheldon, master storyteller, shares his most intriguing tale yet: that of his own extraordinary life.

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À propos de l'auteur

Linn Sheldon was a pioneer in the early days of television and a groundbreaking children's television host. His character Barnaby was a fixture on Cleveland television for decades. He has won many awards for programming, including two Emmy awards.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gray & Company, Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1886228426
• ISBN 13: 9781886228429
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 188
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