Paul Simon - One Trick Pony - Buch

When Paul Simon's film One-Trick Pony was released, the Los Angeles Times wrote: «One of our most celebrated singer- composers has become an impressive actor and screenwriter Deeply personal but not autobiographical. this exceptionally handsome [movie] is an intimate film of much wit, style and impact. It ranks among the year's best.« Here now is the com- plete screenplay, including original lyrics and music (among the songs, Simon's hit single «Late in the Evening«), as well as. more than 42 movie stills in both black and white and color. At the center of Simon's screenplay is a successful protest singer of the sixties whose personal and professional life is now in crisis. Jonah Levin (Paul Simon) is struggling to keep himself together: His marriage is coming apart. his young son is confused by what is happening to his parents and by his own new feelings. and a harsh. new commercial sound is sweeping the music scene. which Jonah must decide to join or risk failure. In his script Paul Simon reveals that in addition to his gifts as a songwriter and performer he has a remarkable talent for dialogue and characterization. His music and his story blend perfectly and as this book follows the course of the film. the photographs complementing the text and the music, we get a marvelous evocation of Paul Simon's moving and impressive and altogether original debut as a screenwriter and a star Typography design by Herb Lubalin

• Größe: 165x235 mm

Taschenbuch ISBN13: 978394739618 ISBN10: 0394739612 Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, New York | 1980 | englisch Zustand: Buch: Gebraucht - Mit Gebrauchsspuren -> mit Knicken und Kratzern Ecken angestoßen Folk, Singer songwriter