10/31/2023 0 Comments Gary jagged antihero was made our![]() “ ’Tain’t What You Do (It’s the Way That You Do It)” -Sy Oliver, song titleĬontents Introduction xi Acknowledgments xxi Part One: Comedy Speechless (Charlie Chaplin / Buster Keaton) 3 2 Hanging Tough (Harold Lloyd) 10 There Ain’t No Sanity Claus (Groucho Marx and Brothers) 4 This Guy Wouldn’t Give You the Parsley off His Fish (Jack Benny) 24 5 Cowardly Custard (Bob Hope) 37 6 Idiot Semi-Savant (Jerry Lewis) 46 1 What wouldst write of me, if thou shouldst praise me? Oh, gentle lady, do not put me to’t, For I am nothing if not critical. Thorne Smith, The Glorious Pool DESDEMONA. Boswell, Life of Johnson “Let faith oust fact let fancy oust memory I look deep down and do believe.” -Starbuck in Melville, Moby Dick He had not lightly cast aside the disillusioning knowledge of a past which had now so strangely become the future. He would allow no man either to blame or praise Garrick in his presence, without contradicting him. ![]() Sir Joshua Reynolds has observed, with great truth, that Johnson considered Garrick to be as it were his property. Natural selection : Gary Giddins on comedy, film, music, and books / Gary Giddins. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Giddins, Gary. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2006 by Gary Giddins Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. ![]() Natural Selection GARY GIDDINS ON COMEDY, FILM, MUSIC, AND BOOKSġ Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Books by Gary Giddins Natural Selection (2006) Weather Bird (2004) Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams (2001) Visions of Jazz: The First Century (1998) Faces in the Crowd (1992) Satchmo (1988) Celebrating Bird (1987) Rhythm-a-ning (1985) Riding on a Blue Note (1981)
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