Putting On The Ritz
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Putting on the Ritz
A deliciously, maliciously deft comedy of bad manners, high society, financial skulduggery, and romantic infighting.Roll over, Wilde, Wodehouse, and Noel Coward! Joe Keenan is back and so are his ineffable creations, Philip Cavanaugh and Gilbert Selwyn, the hilariously witty duo who've turned social climbing into a form of tcrrorism. In PUTTING ON THE RITZ, they invade the entourage of a tasteless New York real estate and media magnate, try to turn his talentless wife (a woman so rich she 'ovulates Faberge eggs') into a chanteuse, and vie for the affections of a paralyzingly suave magazine editor - in a novel whose comic complications, dizzying repartee, and cast of high-hat lowlifes are nothing less than irresistible.
Puttin' On the Ritz
Fred Astaire defined elegance on the dance floor. however, once he learned how to tap and bought his first Brooks Brothers suit, the game changed. How did he transform himself from a small town Nebraska boy into the most sophisticated man ever to dance across a dance floor? In this comprehensive new book about the life and artistry of Fred Astaire, Peter Levinson looks carefully at the entirety of Astaire's career from vaudeville to Broadway to Hollywood to television. He exploresAstaire's relationships with his vivacious dance partners, his friendship with songwriters like George but, he also revolutionized the television variety special with the Emmy-Award-Winning "An Evening With Fred Astaire". For ,Puttin' on the Ritz", veteran Hollywood insider, Peter Levinson interviewed over two hundred people who worked closely with Astaire such as Debbie Reynolds, Dick Van Dyke, Artie Shaw, Bobby Short, Oscar Peterson, Mel Ferrer, Betty Garrett, Joel Grey, Arlene Dahl, Michael Kidd, Betty Comden, Onna White, Margaret Whiting, Andy Williams, and others like Quincy Jones, John Travolta, and John Williams, to provide an intimate window on to his professional as well as his personal life. His new biography of Astaire is a celebration of the great era of sophistication on Broadway and in Hollywood as seen through the life of a man who learned how to put on the Ritz and become America's premiere song-and-dance-man: Fred Astaire.
America's Songs
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.