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Title: Underfoot in Show Business by Helene Hanff ISBN: 1-55921-017-6 Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd Pub. Date: June, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Broadway misadventures
Comment: Helene Hanff published this, her first book, in 1961. She shares stories from her years as a struggling playwright in New York City; her good friend Maxine was a struggling actress. Practically penniless, they still managed to see first-run shows and movies regularly. How they did it is one of many memorable and funny tales.
I couldn't help laughing at the merry-go-round of a Broadway agent shopping a play all over town. Ms. Hanff tells how 'Oklahoma!' was named (she was there). One of her many jobs involved speed-reading long novels; her take on Tolkein is slightly different than Peter Jackson's.
I echo a previous reviewer's thought: this book would make a terrific film. 'Underfoot in Show Business' is a gem, a memoir full of magic and wit. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: This one is a classic!
Comment: I first heard of this book 20 years ago, in a letter to the editor in Seventeen Magazine. The letterwriter was distantly related to Helene Hanff and was recommending the book. At the time, I was deeply involved in my high school drama program and the title of the book appealed to me. I tried for years to find the book, but it was out of print for a time. When I did finally find it, it was worth the wait. It is laugh-out-loud funny and touching to anyone who has ever been bitten by the drama bug. I was sold on the book the minute I read the preface, which reads in part, "Each year hundreds of of stage-struck kids arrive in New York determined to crash the theatre...one in a thousand turns out to be Noel Coward. This book is about life among the other 999, by one of them." This book turned me on to all of Helene Hanff's other books, each of which is worthwhile in its own right. However, the best of the bunch is right here. This book should be on every booklover's must have list!
Rating: 5
Summary: Truly, this is the funniest book you'll ever read.
Comment: I once had to read a bit of this book out to some strangers on a plane who wanted to know why I was laughing out loud and then we had champagne and it was a great flight and Miss Hanff had even more fans. The tears were running down our faces. [ For those of you who have read it already it was the bit about the funeral parlour].
This book, like all of Miss Hanff's works, makes you feel great to be alive.
I've come to love my native city more and more by seeing it through Miss Hanff's eyes.
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Title: Q's Legacy by Helene Hanff ISBN: 0140089365 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: August, 1986 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Apple of My Eye by Helene Hanff ISBN: 0918825733 Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd Pub. Date: May, 1989 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff ISBN: 155921144X Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff ISBN: 0140143505 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Old Books, Rare Friends : Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion by Leona Rostenberg, Madeline B. Stern ISBN: 0385485158 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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