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Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Part One: Comedy
- 1- Speechless
- 2- Hanging Tough
- 3- There Aint No Sanity Claus
- 4- This Guy Wouldnt Give You the Parsley off His Fish
- 5- Cowardly Custard
- 6- Idiot Semi-Savant
- Part Two: Film
- 7- Best Picture, 1889
- 8- Who Was That Masked Man?
- 9- Reviving Ghosts
- 10- The Pulse of the World
- 11- Ways We Werent
- 12- Naked Truth
- 13- Things That Go Bump
- 14- A Few Stops on the Way to the Grave
- 15- Hokum Became Him
- 16- Primal Fear
- 17- Tales of Treachery and Loyalty
- 18- Incomparable
- 19- Awash in Ambiguity
- 20- Going His Way
- 21- Blond and Beaming
- 22- The Two Leons
- 23- Kong Has Crazed His Mind
- 24- All the Screens a Stage
- 25- Eternal Times Square
- 26- Once upon a Time on the Via Veneto
- 27- Charming Imagination
- 28- I Spy
- 29- McCarey Nods
- 30- Across the Pacific
- 31- My Life Makes Me Cry
- 32- The Holland Line
- 33- Still Curious
- 34- Broken Promises
- 35- Calm, Cool, and Now Collected
- 36- Rock Heads
- 37- Real Reality TV
- 38- Roll Out the Sixties and Well Have a Wonderful Time
- 39- Round and Around and Around
- 40- Color Him Purple
- 41- Call It Anything
- 42- Savage Servility
- 43- Simplicity Itself
- 44- Pretty Boy
- 45- French Doubt
- 46- Blown Away
- 47- WWII and the Whole Truth
- Part Three: Music
- 48- Mixing Hot Licks with Vanilla
- 49- Brush Up Your Porter
- 50- Long-Playing
- 51- Jazz for the Eyes
- 52- Regrets, Theyve Had a Few
- 53- Ambassadors
- 54- Explosive
- 55- Im Supposed to Deliver
- 56- Brother Al
- 57- The Arranger
- 58- A New Kind of Virtuosity
- 59- Beale Street Talks
- 60- Old Man Rivers
- 61- Whos Gonna Throw That Minstrel Boy a Coin?
- 62- Fresh Flowers
- 63- Put Your Voice Where Your Mouth Is
- 64- On Her 90th Birthday
- Part Four: Books
- 65- Harsh as the sounds of a mans snore was the name of Khufu
- 66- The Grove of Academe
- 67- Carrying a Torch
- 68-Muddy Waters, I presume
- 69- Soupspoons Blues
- 70- Short and Acerbic
- 71- Oxford Jazz
- 72- A Public Burning
- 73- Doin That Waitin
- 74- Closed Minds
- 75- Laughing Man
- 76- Hes Got No Kick Against Modern Jazz
- 77- Mr. Ellington, Meet Mr. Matisse
- 78- Fighting for Freedom and Bad Taste
- 79- Pops and Pops
- 80- Seduced
- 81- Fear and Trembling
- 82- Kaddish for the Jews
- Index