Honky-tonk Parade: New Yorker Profiles of Show People - Tapa blanda

A collection of essays about some of the modern world's most provocative cultural icons is a compendium of celebrity profiles, anecdotes, and observations about such figures as Dame Edna, Cole Porter, and Laurence Fishburne. By the Tony Award-winning writer of "Elaine Stritch at Liberty."

Praised by the "New York Times Book Review "as "probably the most intelligent and insightful writer on the theater today," John Lahr has twice won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, most recently for his work at "The New Yorker, "where he has written about theater and popular culture since 1992. Mr. Lahr has written sixteen books, among them the novels "The Autograph Hound "(1973) and "Hot to Trot "(1974); "Light Fantastic: Adventures in Theater "(1996); "The Orton Diaries "(editor, 1996); "Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr "(California, 2000); "Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilisation "(California, 2000); and "Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton "(California, 2000).