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
Introduce the panelists, and as i introduce each of you, if you could just 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 . First we have a professor in the graduate acting program at new york universitys tish school of the arts with an affiliation in the graduate musical theater writing program, and is particularly interested in the history of broadway and of comedy. He has written biographies of xoeter Richard Rogers and p playwright. His most recent is a documentary film sammy davis jr. Ive got to be me. So, larry, tell us what has drawn you to biography. Well, i may be a little different from the rest of the panel. My venue is really entertainment. So obviously in entertainment youre dealing with the public persona of performers, what they sang, what they danced, what they acted. And then, of course, what happens off stage or behind the curtain is equally fascinating as you try to make some sense out of wha
Hinkman and fartman are here tonight on the show. First the king of social media, our tangerine twitter man donald jemimah trump. The whistles are blowing, the witches are hunting but the president keeps going. You can look up his schedule every day. This is it. At 3 15, he signed executive orders on transparency and federal guidance and enforcement. And that was it. [ laughter ] otherwise it was just yelling and tweeting. And touching himself to sean hannity, i guess. [ laughter ] trump is handling this impeachment crisis about as well as you would expect. Which is badly, very, very badly. Definitely woke up on the wrong side of the tanning bed this morning. [ laughter ] he started with the donothing democrats are con artists only looking to hurt the Republican Party and president , the socalled whistleblower, before knowing i was going to release this exact transcript, stated my call with the president was crazy, frightening, completely unrelated to substance, this is a very big lie,
Randy roberts has written so many, hes written more than half of our total number, i think. So, we have a lot of experience in the genre and weve been drawn to it and we have an affinity for it in some way or another. Let me introduce the panelists, i will 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 this genre. We have larry who is a professor of the graduate acting program at school of the arts in new york in the musical writing program. Hes particularly interested in the music of broadway and has written biographies of Richard Rogers and playwrights and in addition to several other books. His most recent biographical work is the documentary film, sammy davis junior, i gotta be me. So, larry, tell us what drew you to this. Hi. I may be a little different from the rest of the panel. My venue is really entertainment. So, obviously, in entertainment you are dealing with a public person