A colorful portrait of Italian-American culture, from the saloons that lined the streets of Hoboken to the bright lights of New York City, is seen through the life of singer/musician Jimmy Roselli. 20,000 first printing.

Making the Wiseguys Weep: The Jimmy Roselli Story

Evanier, David

Humor & Entertainment

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett

The first complete biography of singing legend Tony BennettAmong America's greatest entertainers such as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Ray Charles, and Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett alone is still here and at the top of his game. For the first time, All the Things You Are tells the incredible story of Bennett's life and sixty-year career, from his impoverished New York City childhood through his first chart-topping hits, from liberating a concentration camp to his civil rights struggles, from his devastating personal and career battles and addiction in the 1970's to his stunning comeback and emergence as a musical statesman, America's troubadour, role model and mentor, and unmatched interpreter of the American songbook.
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<li>Takes a candid, unvarnished look at the amazing life of one of America's most enduring musical icons </li>
<li>Based on dozens of author interviews with Bennett's family members,?agents, musicians, composers and managers, and experts on the last fifty years of popular music</li>
<li>Filled with stories involving leading figures and entertainers of the twentieth-century, including Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fiorello LaGuardia, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ray Charles, Dean Martin, Billie Holliday, and more</li>
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Whether you've been a Tony Bennett fan for decades or are just discovering him, this book will deepen your understanding of this hugely gifted entertainer and his music.

Reference

Trade Paper Press

In these interconnected stories, David Evanier combines the absurd and the touching, playing sweetness against sadness in electric stories from the edges of New York life. A blitzkrieg of unforgettable characters from 42nd street, the Lower East Side, Hell's Kitchen, the Upper West Side, and Morningside Heights transfigures his prose: **an eighty-four year-old woman locked in mortal combat with her black Home Care worker; **a young writer fighting his way through the phantasmagorical, pornographic vastness of Times Square as he sets out to outwit his draft board; **a sixty-four year-old hippie working nine for five for "Jews for Israel"; **a psychiatrist who dreams of becoming a rabbi; and **a rabbi who dreams of opening a bagel shop. All are captured in a redeeming light beyond good and evil, beyond the tragic and the bizarre. Each story represents an incident in the life of Bruce, a writer whom we follow from adolescence through middle age. This technique allows the author to juxtapose a sequence of unusual and varying perspectives on his characters, rendering the gaps in the action and poignant as the events themselves. This is a book in which the style is perfectly adapted to the matter. The shifting perspectives of the linked stories not only enable Mr. Evanier to compose a remarkably rounded portrait of Bruce but also reflect the kaleidoscopic images of life in New York City. THE ONE STAR JEW is both exciting fictional achievement and a penetrating study of our lives and time.

The One-Star Jew

NORTH POINT PRESS

Fiction. In David Evanier's new collection of stories, THE GREAT KISSER "There is a bloodshot intensity..., a drive to get hold of the world before it all gets lost, the streets, the rooms, the feeling of the times--the 60s and 70s--when personal and public life felt so terribly urgent. Evanier writes a muscular, watchful prose, and again and again he pulls it off, surprising his characters in t heir existential habitat--unsettled, confused, completely caught up in the act of becoming"--Sven Birkerts.

The Great Kisser

Literature & Fiction

Rager Media

In this first biography of Woody Allen in over a decade, David Evanier discusses key movies, plays and prose as well as Allen's personal life. Evanier tackles the themes that Allen has spent a lifetime sorting through in art: morality, sexuality, Judaism, the eternal struggle of head and heart. Woody will be the definitive word on a major American talent as he begins his ninth decade, and his sixth decade of making movies.

Woody: The Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

St.Martin's Press

Based on interviews with family members, agents, musicians and managers, this candid biography examines the life and 60-year career of the American entertainer, from his impoverished New York City childhood to liberating a concentration camp and his struggles with addiction. (biography &amp; autobiography).

All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series)

Thorndike Press

A multilayered portrait of this brash, gifted artist, whose restless voice and spirit seem as alive today as ever. “Compelling and revealing … Roman Candle gives us the many lives of one of the great entertainers of all time, whose flame was extinguished way too soon.” — Kevin Spacey A performer who rivaled Sinatra, Bobby Darin rose from dire poverty to become one of the biggest stars of his generation. Dogged by chronic illness, he knew that time was not on his side, and so, in a career full of dizzying twists and turns, he did it all, moving from teen idol to Vegas song-and-dance man, from hipster to folkie and back. In Roman Candle, David Evanier offers a multilayered portrait of this brash, gifted artist, including the dark side of his celebrated marriage to America’s sweetheart, Sandra Dee, and the incredible family secret that tore him apart at the end. “In Roman Candle, David Evanier relates the Bobby Darin story with empathy and insight. His chronicle of the triumphs and vicissitudes of Bobby’s star-crossed life is packed with illuminating details and a page-turning seductiveness. Here is the ultimate tribute to the life and times of a true American original.” — Jerry Wexler, legendary producer, Atlantic Records, and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame “Informed by scores of interviews with Darin’s friends and associates and written in no-nonsense, just-the-facts prose, Evanier’s book paints a picture of a ruthlessly ambitious musician … Sinatra may have had the bragging rights to ‘My Way,’ but Darin lived out the lyrics.” — Publishers Weekly “This biography percolates with cool … [Evanier has] written a book so charged with intimacy, so heartbreakingly ebullient with life, that you feel that any moment the pages are about to snap their fingers and break into song.” — Caroline Leavitt, The Boston Globe “Darin has been the subject of several books; most notable is this new examination of the singer’s life and work by David Evanier … Evanier’s portrait, true to its title, is one of a bright talent that soared quickly and erupted in a flash of glory.” — David Hajdu, The Atlantic Monthly “Music fans are liable to be surprised by the Bobby Darin mania sparked by Kevin Spacey’s sunny new film biography. For the slightly darker look at Darin, hole up for the holidays with Roman Candle, the latest book about Darin’s rollercoaster life.” — Janet Maslin, “Top Ten List of Books for Gifts” (2004), The New York Times

Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin (Excelsior Editions)

Excelsior Editions

Everyone knows him as Ralph Cifaretto on the HBO hit show The Sopranos. But before Tony, Carmela, Silvio, and Dr. Melfi took Sunday-night television by storm, Joe Pantoliano was one of America's busiest actors, giving unforgettable performances in such films as Memento, The Matrix, The Fugitive, and Risky Business. Now, the street-smart kid who grew up in Sinatra's hometown shares the stage with the eccentric and colorful wise guys from his family and neighborhood. Fade in on the projects of Hoboken, New Jersey, during the fifties and sixties. That's little Joey, running numbers with his chain-smoking mother, Mary, so they can keep a roof over their heads. When he wasn't busy staying one step ahead of the bill collectors, he was learning the ropes from "Cousin" Florie: his "stepfather" and a wise guy whose connections to the Genovese family couldn't keep him out of jail for drug trafficking. Then there was Joey's real father, "Monk," a factory worker with a weakness for gambling at the track who was later reborn as a hearse chauffeur for the local funeral parlor. With a winning blend of humor, charm, and pure showmanship, Pantoliano tells it like it was. From a connected Jersey street kid to a successful Hollywood actor who would, ironically, re-create his wise-guy boyhood in role after role, Who's Sorry Now is an irresistibly entertaining treat for anyone interested in this true-life "Soprano" and a real stand-up guy.

Who's Sorry Now: The True Story of a Stand-Up Guy

Pantoliano, Joe

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A sensitive, startling portrait of the legendary singer-timed to hit stores just as the Kevin Spacey movie Beyond the Sea has kindled intense new interest in every aspect of Darin's life and tragically early death. By age 8 Bobby Darin knew he was doomed to die young. So he set out to become a showbiz legend by age 25. From his Grammy-winning smash hit "Mack the Knife" to his Oscar-nominated supporting role in Captain Newman, M.D., Darin left his mark on every aspect of show business that he touched. Now, 32 years after his death at age 37, we finally have an elegantly written, multilayered portrait of this brash, gifted artist. Author David Evanier has: o Interviewed all the key principals in the Darin saga and culled rare photographs from the singer's closest friends o Pored through scores of videotapes, audiotapes, recordings, documents, and films o Re-created the rock-and-roll and Broadway show- business milieus of the 1950s that Darin emerged from, and the sharply changing musical, political, and cultural world of the 1960s that had such a profound impact on him. The result is a moving, insightful portrait of one of the greatest-and most complex-performers in the history of American entertainment, whose restless voice and spirit seem as alive today as ever.

Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin

Rodale Books

The first complete biography of singing legend Tony BennettAmong America's greatest entertainers such as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Ray Charles, and Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett alone is still here and at the top of his game. For the first time, All the Things You Are tells the incredible story of Bennett's life and sixty-year career, from his impoverished New York City childhood through his first chart-topping hits, from liberating a concentration camp to his civil rights struggles, from his devastating personal and career battles and addiction in the 1970's to his stunning comeback and emergence as a musical statesman, America's troubadour, role model and mentor, and unmatched interpreter of the American songbook.Takes a candid, unvarnished look at the amazing life of one of America's most enduring musical icons Based on dozens of author interviews with Bennett's family members,?agents, musicians, composers and managers, and experts on the last fifty years of popular musicFilled with stories involving leading figures and entertainers of the twentieth-century, including Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fiorello LaGuardia, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ray Charles, Dean Martin, Billie Holliday, and moreWhether you've been a Tony Bennett fan for decades or are just discovering him, this book will deepen your understanding of this hugely gifted entertainer and his music.

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Making the Wiseguys Weep: The Jimmy Roselli Story

All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett

The One-Star Jew

The Great Kisser

Woody: The Biography

All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series)

Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin (Excelsior Editions)

Who's Sorry Now: The True Story of a Stand-Up Guy

Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin

All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett