Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!: Ed Sullivan's America (Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities)

Table of Contents......Page 10
Introduction: Theme Music......Page 12
PART 1. NO-TALENT  HOST TAMES THE ONE-EYED BEAST......Page 28
1. Out of the Paley-ozoic Ooze......Page 30
2. Battle of the Videoville Titans......Page 44
3. A Live Broadway Column Every Sunday Night......Page 52
4. The $375 Extravaganza......Page 63
5. Very Critical Condition......Page 76
6. The Magic of Sullivision......Page 90
PART 2. HOW TO SUCCEED IN SHOW BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TALKING......Page 116
7. From Small-Town Sportwriter to Manhattan Sport......Page 118
8. He\'s Just an Ink-Stained Broadway Baby......Page 134
9. Toast of the Nation......Page 149
10. It\'s the World, on Line One......Page 159
11. Sacred Sunday Rite......Page 174
12. Not Quite All in the Family......Page 189
13. Extended Family......Page 208
PART 3. INSIDE THE STAR-MAKING MACHINE......Page 222
14. Herding Comedians......Page 224
15. Backstage Life (and Death)......Page 252
16. Give My Regards to La Scala......Page 274
17. Elvis Has Entered the Building......Page 287
18. Newspaper Wads at Fifty Paces......Page 307
19. Embracing Blacks, Caving In to McCarthyism......Page 322
PART 4. RESCUED BY ROCK \'N\' ROLL......Page 340
20. The Son-in-Law Also Rises......Page 342
21. \"And Now-the Beatles!\"......Page 354
22. The Showman without a Country......Page 386
23. Echoes and Afterimages......Page 408
Bibliography......Page 424
Interviews......Page 432
Acknowledgments......Page 434
Index......Page 436