Author: Ken Tucker
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429909730
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
According to Ken Tucker, television is where the mass culture action really is. It's where the weasel goes pop. But for such a fluid, of-the-moment, democratic yet "cool" medium, a strangling accretion of false pieties, half-remembered history, and misplaced nostalgia has grown up around it--the prose equivalent of choking vines. In this book, Ken Tucker shares his zealous opinions about the best and worst of television, past and present Everyone has firm beliefs about what he loves and hates about TV. If TV fans think the high point of televised political wit was M*A*S*H, or that Johnny Carson was the true king of late-night, Ken Tucker does his damnedest to convince them that they've been hoodwinked, duped by pixilated mists of memory and bad TV criticism. His dazzling, provocative, and entertaining pieces include LOVES: James Garner as TV's Cary Grant, Pamela Anderson's breasts, David Brinkley--the only anchor who understood that being an anchor was a hollow ego-trip, Heather Locklear as the ultimate TV Personality, Bill O'Reilly--why the biggest asshole on TV is a great TV personality. And from his HATE lists: "The Sopranos" as The Great Saga That Sags, Miss Peggy as media star, Bob Newhart: Human Prozac, Worst Mothers on TV, Star Trek-Sci-Fi suckiness decked out as utopian idealism. His perception and passion about this much maligned medium gives the lie to passive cliché's like "vegging out in front of the boob tube." This book is the TV version of Michael Moore's Stupid White Men or Bill O'Reilly's The No-Spin Zone.
Jim Henson's Book of Muppet Stories
Author: Tony Geiss
Publisher: Crescent
ISBN: 9780517102299
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: Crescent
ISBN: 9780517102299
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Miss Piggy's Night Out
Author: Sara Hoagland Hunter
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
ISBN: 9780670861071
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
When their dinner at a fancy restaurant ends in embarrassment for Miss Piggy, Kermit tries to make her feel better.
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
ISBN: 9780670861071
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
When their dinner at a fancy restaurant ends in embarrassment for Miss Piggy, Kermit tries to make her feel better.
The Muppets: Miss Piggy in the Spotlight
Author: Lucy Rosen
Publisher: LB Kids
ISBN: 9780316183178
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kermit announces that there is a big new star coming for the show! Miss Piggy tries to get more details out of him, while the other Muppets imagine who the big guest star will be and worry that it's someone who will steal the show. At first, Piggy thinks this is silly talk-Kermit would never bring in someone to upstage her. She will always be the star of the show...right? © 2011 Disney
Publisher: LB Kids
ISBN: 9780316183178
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kermit announces that there is a big new star coming for the show! Miss Piggy tries to get more details out of him, while the other Muppets imagine who the big guest star will be and worry that it's someone who will steal the show. At first, Piggy thinks this is silly talk-Kermit would never bring in someone to upstage her. She will always be the star of the show...right? © 2011 Disney
Miss Piggy's Treasury of Art Masterpieces from the Kermitage Collection
Author: Michael K. Frith
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
ISBN: 9780030007439
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Miss Piggy takes the reader on a tour of her art museum which houses several muppet masterworks including Gainsborough's "Green Boy."
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
ISBN: 9780030007439
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Miss Piggy takes the reader on a tour of her art museum which houses several muppet masterworks including Gainsborough's "Green Boy."
In the Kitchen with Miss Piggy
Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780783547817
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
More than 50 celebrities share their favourite recipes with Miss Piggy. Humorous delivery and well illustrated.
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780783547817
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
More than 50 celebrities share their favourite recipes with Miss Piggy. Humorous delivery and well illustrated.
Kissing Bill O'Reilly, Roasting Miss Piggy
Author: Ken Tucker
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429909730
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
According to Ken Tucker, television is where the mass culture action really is. It's where the weasel goes pop. But for such a fluid, of-the-moment, democratic yet "cool" medium, a strangling accretion of false pieties, half-remembered history, and misplaced nostalgia has grown up around it--the prose equivalent of choking vines. In this book, Ken Tucker shares his zealous opinions about the best and worst of television, past and present Everyone has firm beliefs about what he loves and hates about TV. If TV fans think the high point of televised political wit was M*A*S*H, or that Johnny Carson was the true king of late-night, Ken Tucker does his damnedest to convince them that they've been hoodwinked, duped by pixilated mists of memory and bad TV criticism. His dazzling, provocative, and entertaining pieces include LOVES: James Garner as TV's Cary Grant, Pamela Anderson's breasts, David Brinkley--the only anchor who understood that being an anchor was a hollow ego-trip, Heather Locklear as the ultimate TV Personality, Bill O'Reilly--why the biggest asshole on TV is a great TV personality. And from his HATE lists: "The Sopranos" as The Great Saga That Sags, Miss Peggy as media star, Bob Newhart: Human Prozac, Worst Mothers on TV, Star Trek-Sci-Fi suckiness decked out as utopian idealism. His perception and passion about this much maligned medium gives the lie to passive cliché's like "vegging out in front of the boob tube." This book is the TV version of Michael Moore's Stupid White Men or Bill O'Reilly's The No-Spin Zone.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429909730
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
According to Ken Tucker, television is where the mass culture action really is. It's where the weasel goes pop. But for such a fluid, of-the-moment, democratic yet "cool" medium, a strangling accretion of false pieties, half-remembered history, and misplaced nostalgia has grown up around it--the prose equivalent of choking vines. In this book, Ken Tucker shares his zealous opinions about the best and worst of television, past and present Everyone has firm beliefs about what he loves and hates about TV. If TV fans think the high point of televised political wit was M*A*S*H, or that Johnny Carson was the true king of late-night, Ken Tucker does his damnedest to convince them that they've been hoodwinked, duped by pixilated mists of memory and bad TV criticism. His dazzling, provocative, and entertaining pieces include LOVES: James Garner as TV's Cary Grant, Pamela Anderson's breasts, David Brinkley--the only anchor who understood that being an anchor was a hollow ego-trip, Heather Locklear as the ultimate TV Personality, Bill O'Reilly--why the biggest asshole on TV is a great TV personality. And from his HATE lists: "The Sopranos" as The Great Saga That Sags, Miss Peggy as media star, Bob Newhart: Human Prozac, Worst Mothers on TV, Star Trek-Sci-Fi suckiness decked out as utopian idealism. His perception and passion about this much maligned medium gives the lie to passive cliché's like "vegging out in front of the boob tube." This book is the TV version of Michael Moore's Stupid White Men or Bill O'Reilly's The No-Spin Zone.
Sherlockian Stories and Studies
Author: Gayle Lange Puhl
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1787055841
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
A Sherlock Holmes fan for most of her life, Gayle Lange Puhl has collected in this volume her latest stories and studies on the Great Detective. Included here are her well-reviewed “Colonel Warburton’s Madness” and “The Blood-Splattered Bridge,” plus other entertaining adventures. Essays on various Sherlockian subjects are also covered. Notable among them are the history of the real Criterion Bar and the contents of the Agra Treasure box. Discover the importance of pigs in the Canon (it is more than bacon!). Join in the fun of linking actor Wiliam Gillette, the first filmed Holmes, to today’s BBC SHERLOCK’s Benedict Cumberbatch. Gayle Lange Puhl, ASH, is a past Solitary Typist of The Criterion Bar Association and the founder of two Sherlock Holmes scions. She has been published in The Baker Street Journal, The Devon County Chronicle, and The Serpentine Muse, the magazine of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes.
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1787055841
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
A Sherlock Holmes fan for most of her life, Gayle Lange Puhl has collected in this volume her latest stories and studies on the Great Detective. Included here are her well-reviewed “Colonel Warburton’s Madness” and “The Blood-Splattered Bridge,” plus other entertaining adventures. Essays on various Sherlockian subjects are also covered. Notable among them are the history of the real Criterion Bar and the contents of the Agra Treasure box. Discover the importance of pigs in the Canon (it is more than bacon!). Join in the fun of linking actor Wiliam Gillette, the first filmed Holmes, to today’s BBC SHERLOCK’s Benedict Cumberbatch. Gayle Lange Puhl, ASH, is a past Solitary Typist of The Criterion Bar Association and the founder of two Sherlock Holmes scions. She has been published in The Baker Street Journal, The Devon County Chronicle, and The Serpentine Muse, the magazine of the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes.
Strategic Reinvention in Popular Culture
Author: Richard Pfefferman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137373199
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Not all original works invoke the encore impulse in their audiences. Those that do generally spawn replications - sequels, spin-offs, or re-makes. This book presents a theory of why some replications succeed and others fail across genres and media.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137373199
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Not all original works invoke the encore impulse in their audiences. Those that do generally spawn replications - sequels, spin-offs, or re-makes. This book presents a theory of why some replications succeed and others fail across genres and media.
Kermit Culture
Author: Jennifer C. Garlen
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786453753
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
By the end of its five-year run on television, The Muppet Show had transformed its motley cast from fistfuls of felt to multi-media celebrities. Sophisticated and highly individuated, each of the Muppets embodied a conventional character type from classic television comedy. Kermit functioned as straight man to the majority of the show's jokes. Miss Piggy, the resident diva, evolved from first season chorus girl to full-fledged megastar. A Costello to Kermit's Abbot, Fozzie peddled his vaudevillian shtick to a tough audience, but his genuine sweetness made him lovable even when his jokes were lame. These essays represent the work and ideas of a global community of scholars and Muppet enthusiasts, providing a unique perspective on just how Kermit and the rest of the frogs, dogs, bears, and chickens became cultural icons with influences reaching far beyond the world of 1970s television comedy.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786453753
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
By the end of its five-year run on television, The Muppet Show had transformed its motley cast from fistfuls of felt to multi-media celebrities. Sophisticated and highly individuated, each of the Muppets embodied a conventional character type from classic television comedy. Kermit functioned as straight man to the majority of the show's jokes. Miss Piggy, the resident diva, evolved from first season chorus girl to full-fledged megastar. A Costello to Kermit's Abbot, Fozzie peddled his vaudevillian shtick to a tough audience, but his genuine sweetness made him lovable even when his jokes were lame. These essays represent the work and ideas of a global community of scholars and Muppet enthusiasts, providing a unique perspective on just how Kermit and the rest of the frogs, dogs, bears, and chickens became cultural icons with influences reaching far beyond the world of 1970s television comedy.
Andy & Sandy's Anything Adventure
Author: Tomie dePaola
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481441582
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
From Caldecott and Newbery Honoree Tomie dePaola and Emmy Award–winning writer for the Muppets Jim Lewis comes the second book in an easy-to-read picture book series about friendship. Andy is small. Sandy is tall. Andy is quiet. Sandy is LOUD. Andy and Sandy may be opposites, but they’re best friends. And when they get together to play dress up, anything can happen. Written in simple words and short, declarative sentences, this book is perfect for little ones just learning to read on their own.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481441582
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
From Caldecott and Newbery Honoree Tomie dePaola and Emmy Award–winning writer for the Muppets Jim Lewis comes the second book in an easy-to-read picture book series about friendship. Andy is small. Sandy is tall. Andy is quiet. Sandy is LOUD. Andy and Sandy may be opposites, but they’re best friends. And when they get together to play dress up, anything can happen. Written in simple words and short, declarative sentences, this book is perfect for little ones just learning to read on their own.