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Lost in the Funhouse : The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman by Bill Zehme (1999, Hardcover)

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From renowned journalist Bill Zehme, author of theNew York TimesbestsellingThe Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin', comes the first full-fledged biography and the only complete story of the late comic genius Andy Kaufman. Based on six years of research, Andy's own unpublished, never-before-seen writings, and hundreds of interviews with family members, friends, and key players in Andy's endless charades, many of whom have become icons in their own right,Lost in the Funhousetakes us through the maze of Kaufman's mind and lets us sit deep behind his mad, dazzling blue eyes to see, firsthand, the fanciful landscape that was his life. Controversial, chaotic, splendidly surreal, and tragically brief--what a life it was. Andy Kaufman was often a mystery even to his closest friends. Remote, aloof, impossible to know, his internal world was a kaleidoscope of characters fighting for time on the outside. He was as much Andy Kaufman as he was Foreign Man (dank you veddy much), who became the lovably bashful Latka on the hit TV seriesTaxi.He was as much Elvis Presley as he was the repugnant Tony Clifton, a lounge singer from Vegas who hated any audience that came to see him and who seemed to hate Andy Kaufman even more. He was a contradiction, a paradox on every level, an artist in every sense of the word. During the comic boom of the seventies, when the world had begun to discover the prodigious talents of Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, John Belushi, Bill Murray, and so many others, Andy was simply doing what he had always done in his boyhood reveries. On the debut ofSaturday Night Live,he stood nervously next to a phonograph that scratchily played the theme from Mighty Mouse. He fussed and fidgeted, waiting for his moment. When it came, he raised his hand and moved his mouth to the words "Here I come to save the day!" In that beautiful deliverance of pantomime before the millions of people for whom he had always dreamed about performing, Andy triumphed. He changed the face of comedy forever by lurching across boundaries that no one knew existed. He was the boy who made life his playground and never stopped playing, even when the games proved too dangerous for others. And in the end he would play alone, just as he had when it was all only beginning. InLost in the Funhouse, Bill Zehme sorts through a life of disinformation put forth by a master of deception to uncover the motivation behind the manipulation. Magically entertaining, it is a singular biography matched only by its singular subject.

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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385333714
ISBN-13
9780385333719
eBay Product ID (ePID)
460880

Product Key Features

Book Title
Lost in the Funhouse : the Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman
Author
Bill Zehme
Format
Book, Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
384 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
24.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pn2287.K28z45 1999
Reviews
"Fascinating ... Engrossing ... The closest thing we are ever likely to get to a definitive account of his life." -- The New York Times Book Review "In daring to crawl beneath Kaufman's psychic skin, armed with eyewitness accounts of his exploits, the book gets closer to the truth than we are otherwise likely to get." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Incisive, tellingly detailed." -- Rolling Stone, "Fascinating ... Engrossing ... The closest thing we are ever likely to get to a definitive account of his life." --The New York Times Book Review "In daring to crawl beneath Kaufman's psychic skin, armed with eyewitness accounts of his exploits, the book gets closer to the truth than we are otherwise likely to get." --Chicago Sun-Times "Incisive, tellingly detailed." --Rolling Stone From the Trade Paperback edition.
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
99-461996
Dewey Decimal
791/.092
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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by -Phdgwv_TBy@Del...Sep 03, 2007
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The book gives an insight into to Andy K. Who he was, where he grew up, his likes, dislikes, family... The book is interesting but skips around to Andy as a child, his mother and father, school life, SNL.... so you have to be ready to get moved into a different time or place in his life on every page.

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