Conference called remaking american political history. Welcome. Thank you for attending our session on this beautiful friday afternoon. I will have to compete with the outdoors. And hopefully will convince you that you have made the right choice hanging out with us to talk about media and biographies in political history. 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 had written so many, more than half of our total number. We have a lot of experience in this genre, we have been drawn to it and have an affinity for it in some way or another. Let me introduce the panelists. As i introduce each of you, if you could spend a minute or two telling the audience, what was it that drew you to biography . What is it that you love about the genre . First we have larry, professor in the graduate acting program in the New York University of the arts with an affiliate in the graduate musical theater writing progra
Jim and Tammy Fay Baker and muhammed ali. Thank you for attending our session on this beautiful friday afternoon. Ill have to compete with the outdoors and hopefully well convince you youve made the right choice hanging out with us to talk about media and biography in political history. Between the four of us, we have written at least 17 biographies and it might be more than that. I was losing count because Randy Roberts has written so many. More than half of our total number, i think. So we have a lot of experience in this genre that weve been drawn to and have an affinity for it in some way or another. So before we begin let me introduce the panelists and as i introduce each of you if you could spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography and what is it you love about the genre . And first we have larry masslon from the tish school of arts and as particularly interested in the history of broadway and comedy and written biographies. Richard rogers
Number, i think. So we have a lot of experience in this genre that weve been drawn to and have an affinity for it in some way or another. So before we begin let me introduce the panelists and as i introduce each of you if you could spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to buyography. And first we have larry masslon from the tish school of arts and as particularly interested in the history of broadway and comedy and written biographies. Richard rogers and playwright george f. Coughlin in adisto other books. And the documentary film sammy davis jr. , i gotta be me. So what has drawn you to buyography. Hi. I may be different from the left of the panel. My venue is really entertainment. So, obviously, in entertainment, youre dealing with the public persona of performers, when they sang, danced and acted and, of course, what happens offstage or behind the curtain is equally fascinating as you try to make some sense out of what a performer did publicly as to wh
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