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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America Author: Bill Schelly Narrator: Jim Meskimen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 36 minutes Release date: June 28, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: This biography reveals the true story of Mad creator Harvey Kurtzman—the man who revolutionized humor in America. Harvey Kurtzman created Mad, and Mad revolutionized humor in America. Kurtzman was the original editor, artist, and sole writer of Mad, one of the greatest publishing successes of the twentieth century. But how did Kurtzman invent Mad, and why did he leave it shortly after it burst, nova-like, onto the American scene? For this heavily researched biography, Bill Schelly conducted new interviews with Kurtzman’s colleagues, friends, and family, including Hugh Hefner, R. Crumb, Jack Davis, and many others, and examined Kurtzman’s personal archives. The result is the true story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest humorists. Kurtzman’s family life, the details of the FBI’s investigation during the McCarthy Era, his legal battles with William M. Gaines (publisher of Mad), are all revealed for the first time. Rich with anecdotes, this book traces Kurtzman’s life from his Brooklyn beginnings to his post-Mad years, when his ceaseless creativity produced more innovations: new magazines, a graphic novel, and Little Annie Fanny in Playboy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen: As It Began: Authorized and Revised Edition Author: Jacky Smith, Jim Jenkins Narrator: Mike Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 4 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The original edition of this revered and authorized Queen biography explored every aspect of the legendary group’s career from inception to 1992. Newly revised and updated with cooperation and insight from Brian May and Roger Taylor—and drawing on exclusive interviews with the bandmembers—this book completes the story of the Mercury era and the immediate years after his death. With numerous extra photographs and a new Foreword from Brian May, Queen: As It Began: Revised and Authorized is an informative and authoritative portrait of Queen’s most fundamental period.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nora Ephron: A Biography Author: Kristin Marguerite Doidge Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Based on more than thirty interviews with some of Ephron’s closest friends, family, collaborators, and colleagues as well as numerous interviews Ephron herself gave, award-winning journalist and cultural critic Doidge has written a riveting story of the life of a creative writer who revolutionized journalism, comedy, and film Nora Ephron was one of the most popular, accomplished, and beloved writers in American journalism and film. Nora Ephron: A Life is the first biography of the Manhattan-born girl who forged a path of her own, earning accolades and adoration from critics and fans alike. Author Kristin Marguerite Doidge explores the tremendous successes and disappointing failures Ephron sustained in her career and examines the private life she tried to keep in balance with her insatiable ambition. Nora’s career spanned five decades of smart, successful writing in nearly every medium: magazines, essays, movies, plays, books, and even blogs. Based on rare archival research and more than thirty interviews with some of Ephron’s closest friends, family, collaborators, adversaries, and colleagues—as well as numerous interviews Ephron herself gave throughout her career—award-winning journalist and cultural critic Doidge has written a captivating story of the life of a creative writer whose passion for the perfect one-liner and ferocious drive to succeed revolutionized journalism, comedy, and film. The first in-depth biography to explore the complex themes that ran through Nora’s work and to examine why so many of them still grab our attention today.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/606892 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Wahrheit über Deutschland, Pt. 16 (Ungekürzt) Author: Titanic - Das Endgültige Hörmagazin, Ausbilder Schmidt, Osman Engin, Dr. Pop, Dietmar Wischmeyer, Fritz Eckenga, Konrad Beikircher, Philip Simon, Urban Priol, Dieter Nuhr Narrator: Titanic - Das Endgültige Hörmagazin, Ausbilder Schmidt, Osman Engin, Dr. Pop, Dietmar Wischmeyer, Fritz Eckenga, Konrad Beikircher, Philip Simon, Urban Priol, Dieter Nuhr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 27, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Es geht immer weiter! Die Wahrheit über Deutschland Pt. 16 ist die aktuelle Veröffentlichung der erfolgreichen Compilationreihe, die seit 1997 immer wieder aufs Neue die besten Ausschnitte aus aktuellen Comedy-und Kabarettsoloprogrammen in sich vereint. Live-Mitschnitt mit Dieter Nuhr, Konrad Beikircher, Urban Priol, Fritz Eckenga, Philip Simon u.v.a.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Michael Jordan: Life Lessons from His Airness Author: David H. Lewis Narrator: Cary Valentine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 18 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Michael Jordan: Life Lessons from His Airness contains the secrets to success from the greatest basketball player of all time. “Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.” Michael Jordan defied gravity, transcended the world’s expectations, and exceeded the limits of age, soaring to fame as the world’s greatest basketball player of all time. While his talent was breathtaking to behold—those flying dunks and record-breaking sixty-point games have inspired generations—the unseen forces behind his success are the kind we can all harness for our own. M. J. and his accomplishments were founded on discipline, hard work, and knowing how to channel the deep, competitive drive within. Michael Jordan: Life Lessons from His Airness offers a courtside seat to the wild ride that made Michael Jordan a star and reveals valuable insights for anyone trying to make their own lofty dreams come true.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century Author: John Mauceri Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past century. This book offers a major reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century. John Mauceri argues that the history of music during this span was shaped by three major wars of that century: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Probing why so few works have been added to the canon since 1930, Mauceri examines the trajectories of great composers who, following World War I, created voices that were unique and versatile, but superficially simpler. He contends that the fate of composers during World War II is inextricably linked to the political goals of their respective governments, resulting in the silencing of experimental music in Germany, Italy, and Russia; the exodus of composers to America; and the sudden return of experimental music—what he calls “the institutional avant-garde”—as the lingua franca of classical music in the West during the Cold War.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615660 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung Author: Lester Bangs Narrator: Ramiz Monsef Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung contains the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs—the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s—edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rock critics, Greil Marcus.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614512 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where the Devil Don’t Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers Series: Part of American Music Series Author: Stephen Deusner Narrator: John Mclain Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: In 1996, Patterson Hood recruited friends and fellow musicians in Athens, Georgia, to form his dream band: a group with no set lineup that specialized in rowdy rock and roll. The Drive-By Truckers, as they named themselves, grew into one of the best and most consequential rock bands of the twenty-first century, a great live act whose songs deliver the truth and nuance rarely bestowed on Southerners, so often reduced to stereotypes. Where the Devil Don’t Stay tells the band’s unlikely story not chronologically but geographically. Seeing the Truckers’ albums as roadmaps through a landscape that is half-real, half-imagined, their fellow Southerner Stephen Deusner travels to the places the band’s members have lived in and written about. Tracking the band from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to Richmond, Virginia, to the author’s hometown in McNairy County, Tennessee, Deusner explores the Truckers’ complex relationship to the South and the issues of class, race, history, and religion that run through their music. Drawing on new interviews with past and present band members, including Jason Isbell, Where the Devil Don’t Stay is more than the story of a great American band; it’s a reflection on the power of music and how it can frame and shape a larger culture.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614531 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film Author: Alan K. Rode Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: The first biography of the greatest filmmaker that nobody knows. Academy Award–winning director Michael Curtiz (1886–1962)—whose best-known films include Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mildred Pierce, and White Christmas—was in many ways the anti-auteur. During his unprecedented twenty-seven year tenure at Warner Bros., he directed swashbuckling adventures, westerns, musicals, war epics, romances, historical dramas, horror films, tearjerkers, melodramas, comedies, and film noir masterpieces. The director's staggering output of 180 films surpasses that of the legendary John Ford and exceeds the combined total of films directed by George Cukor, Victor Fleming, and Howard Hawks. In the first biography of this colorful, instinctual artist, Alan K. Rode illuminates the life and work of one of the film industry's most complex figures. He explores the director's little-known early life and career in his native Hungary, revealing how Curtiz shaped the earliest days of silent cinema in Europe before immigrating to the United States in 1926. In Hollywood, Curtiz earned a reputation for explosive tantrums, his difficulty with English, and disregard for the well-being of others. However, few directors elicited more memorable portrayals from their casts, and ten different actors delivered Oscar-nominated performances under his direction. In addition to his study of the director's remarkable legacy, Rode investigates Curtiz's dramatic personal life, discussing his enduring creative partnership with his wife, screenwriter Bess Meredyth, as well as his numerous affairs and children born of his extramarital relationships. This meticulously researched biography provides a nuanced understanding of one of the most talented filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Consider Your Ass Kissed Author: Ruta Lee Narrator: Ruta Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Ruta Lee’s memoir is a treasure trove of wonderful personal stories and anecdotes with rare firsthand and authentic memories of the entertainment industry. Ruta Lee is Hollywood! She tells the fascinating stories of her life as a rising star in the golden years of Hollywood; a career that spans seven decades. You will meet the famous actors, dancers, and singers who are now legends that Ruta worked with and whose stories of life behind the scenes intertwined with Ruta’s. The stories of Ruta’s life are told here with truth, with humor, and with an honesty that is Ruta Lee. In Consider Your Ass Kissed, Ruta discusses her starring roles in films such as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Funny Face, Bullet for a Badman, Witness for the Prosecution, and Sergeants 3. Ruta has worked with Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Charles Bronson, James Garner, Johnny Carson, Fred Astaire, Robin Williams, Howard Keel, Bob Crane, Frank Sinatra, and the rest of the Rat Pack—the list goes on! The iconic ladies she called friends include Rona Barrett, Phyllis Diller, Julie Newmar, Lucille Ball, Sally Fields, Gypsy Rose Lee (no relation), and her best friend and founder of Thalians, Debbie Reynolds. During Ruta’s thriving film career, she launched into television success with over 2000 appearances, starring and guest starring in shows like Perry Mason, the George Burns & Gracie Allen show, the Andy Griffith show, Dragnet, Peter Gun, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Marcus Welby MD, The Twilight Zone, Ironside, The Flying Nun, Hogan’s Heroes, Mork & Mindy, Benson, The Love Boat, Murder She Wrote, Roseanne, Days of Our Lives, Power Rangers, and, of course, 77 Sunset Strip and The Lucy Show. She even auditioned for the role of Ginger on Gilligan’s Island. Lee was also co-host on NBC’s High Rollers with Alex Trebek, a regular on Hollywood Squares with Peter Marshall, and made several television movies. She had series leads in CBS’ Coming of Age and HBO’s 1st and Ten. Her stints on the Bonnie Hunt Show remain among her favorites. Thalians founder Debbie Reynolds and Ruta were the Leading Ladies of “Hollywood for Mental Health” and raised millions for The Thalians Mental Health Center, with star studded events. The audiobook includes a bonus PDF containing photographs from Ruta’s illustrious career.