Sam Wasson, Author . Harper Studio $19.99 (231p) ISBN 978-0-06-177415-7
Wasson, who wrote on the career of writer-director Blake Edwards in A Splurch in the Kisser
, tightens his focus for a closeup of Edwards's memorable Breakfast at Tiffany's
, which received five Oscar nominations (with two wins)....
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Sam Wasson. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $32 (736p) ISBN 978-0-547-55329-0
Bob Fosse, the legendary Broadway choreographer and director of the trendsetting movie antimusicals Cabaret and All That Jazz (which chronicled his life), is the glittering, neurotic soul of showbiz in this scintillating biography. Film scholar and...
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Sam Wasson. HMH/Dolan, $28 (464p) ISBN 978-0-544-55720-8
Wasson (Fosse) makes a thoroughly entertaining case that improvisational comedy has “replaced jazz as America’s most popular art” and represents the best of democracy. Improv was a product of the McCarthy era and came of age quickly with an...
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Sam Wasson, read by David De Vries. HighBridge Audio, , unabridged, 13 CDs, 15.5 hrs., $44.99 ISBN 978-1-6844-1064-4
De Vries does a remarkable job of narrating Wasson’s sweeping history of American improvisational comedy, which begins in a Chicago bar in the McCarthy era and covers the emergence of groups such as Second City, Upright Citizens Brigade, and the...
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Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson. Harper, $45 (800p) ISBN 978-0-063-05694-7
The secrets of Tinseltown burn bright in this collection of interviews culled from the American Film Institute’s archives and assembled by film scholar Basinger (The Movie Musical!) and author Wasson (Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.). The technical process of...
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Sam Wasson. Harper, $32.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-303784-7
Film historian Wasson (The Big Goodbye) explores director Francis Ford Coppola’s artistic process in this enthralling chronicle of his production company, Zoetrope. Founded by Coppola in the late 1960s, Zoetrope was envisioned as a “creative...
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