Portland Public Library

Impresario, the life and times of Ed Sullivan, James Maguire

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-317) and index

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Impresario

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James Maguire

the life and times of Ed Sullivan

"For more than twenty years, from 1948 to 1971, fifty-five million viewers watched The Ed Sullivan Show religiously every Sunday night. Everyone who was anyone appeared--the Beatles and Elvis, of course, and Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, and Elizabeth Taylor, plus public figures such as Fidel Castro, David Ben-Gurion, and Martin Luther King, Jr. More than thirty years later, the program remains a pop-culture icon. But despite Ed Sullivan's prominence, little was known about the private man ... until now. Impresario reveals what the Sullivan viewers never saw: nasty, hot-tempered, craven, yet also capable of high ideals and, above all, hugely ambitious. At a time when Americans are looking back, The Ed Sullivan Show stands out as a shining example of television during the golden era. Impresario lets readers look behind the screen to see the man who made it happen."--Publisher's websiteA perfect mirror of its time, The Ed Sullivan Show ran from 1948 to 1971, echoing this period's every chapter; the birth of television, the conformist 1950's, the dawn of the rock era - featuring a hip-shaking Elvis and the Beatles' U.S. debut - and finally, the tumultuous late 1960s

Prologue -- pt. 1. A showman's education -- ch. 1. Twins -- ch. 2. Two loves -- ch. 3. The porno graphic -- ch. 4. Broadway -- ch. 5. Café society -- ch. 6. Hollywood -- ch. 7. The war years -- pt. 2. The birth of television -- ch. 8. A temporary job -- ch. 9. "Really big show" -- ch. 10. David vs. Goliath -- ch. 11. Stardom -- ch. 12. Elvis -- ch. 13. The globetrotter -- ch. 14. The times they are a changin' -- ch. 15. Beatlemania -- ch. 16. The generation gap -- ch. 17. Ripped asunder -- Epilogue