Great to be back and a special honor to be invited to introduce tom wolfe and a huge burden because how does one introduce tom wolfe . One read the economist, of course. Two weeks ago was a wonderful article on literary realism and i will quote as a way of introduction. For use tom wolfe has been lambasting the establishment for ignoring the best story around, their own country. America positively titillate with fantastic stories and get its writers ensconced in their manhattan lofts and residentss cant be bothered to look further than the ends of their noses. This week, a moment in American Literature, he wrote in one of his manifestoes on behalf of literary realism we need a battalion, a brigade of zolofts to head into the wild bizarre, heart stopping country of ours, reclaim it as literary property. The trouble turning yourself into an american is you expose yourself to being trump by reality, better sort of critics are forever lambasting tom wolfe for going over the top, using cart
Welcome to our 35th annual Allstar Party. Please join me in welcoming a lady we love. Who is now appear ng a very supporting role in a major production back east. This is dutch reagan. And now, kindly join me in welcoming man who we greet as fred. A very special friend close to our hearts. Mr. Dutch reagan. Hello. Nancy and dutch, your host for the evening, 1983 variety club honoree, truly his broth brothers keeper, Frances Albert sinatra. You may be seated. Im delighted to be here with dutch and his bride. The first lady of the United States and might i add the first lady of geneva, too. And now, here are some wonderful people who will be entertaining you for the next hour. Youve already met marty and here are charleston heston, e dee gourmet and steve lawrence, of course. And emanuel lewis, the mightest little fella ive ever known in my life and my buddy, mr. Dean white. Mr. Burt reynolds. Mr. Vincent sculley, a giant in the baseball world. Mr. Ben vereen. And the variety club office
Political blog. Been hijacked to president ial because some governor is running for president right now. In my extracurricular life i am the president of the National Press clubs journalism institute, of which the crown jewel is the and libraries are important, because libraries are with the texas book festival is all about. The book festival raises money for Public Libraries and texas and for literacy programs, all of the books to buy benefit the libraries of the state of texas. I highly recommend that you buy gunfight. Our author will sign books after our program in the book signing tent a congress avenue. Ive been asked by the folks at cspan to ask you to turn off or silence your cellphones. We have had some problems earlier today. If you want to take out your concealed weapons now would be a good time as well, concealed weapons, if you take them out they are not concealed anymore. What we are here today to talk about, gunfight the battle over the right to bear arms in america. It i
Between the four of us we have written at least 17 biographies. It might be more than that. I was losing count because Randy Roberts has written so many. Youve written more than half of our total number i think. So we have a lot of experience in the genre. We have obviously been drawn to it and have an affinity for it some way or another. Before we begin, let me introduce the panelists, and as i introduce each of you, if you could just stand a minute or two, telling the audience what was it that you used for your biography. What is it you love about the genre. First we have larry, from New York University of arts and a musical writing program. He is particularly interested in the history of broadway and comedy. He has written a play with Richard Rogers in addition to several other books. His most recent biographical word is the documentary film semi davis junior, i gotta be me. Larry, tell us what has drawn you to this. I may be a little different from the rest of the panel my venue is
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