Muziek - Film en Theaterboeken

Now in paperback, after five hardcover printings, Tommy James’s wild and entertaining true story of his career—part rock & roll fairytale, part valentine to a bygone era, and part mob epic—that “reads like a music-industry version of Goodfellas” (The Denver Post).

Everyone knows the hits: “Hanky Panky,” “Mony Mony,” “I Think We’re Alone Now,” “Crimson and Clover,” “Crystal Blue Persuasion.” All of these songs, which epitomize great pop music of the late 1960s, are now widely used in television and film and have been covered by a diverse group of artists from Billy Idol to Tiffany to R.E.M. Just as compelling as the music itself is the life Tommy James lived while making it.

James tells the incredible story, revealing his complex and sometimes terrifying relationship with Roulette Records and Morris Levy, the legendary Godfather of the music business. Me, the Mob, and the Music is a fascinating portrait of this swaggering, wildly creative era of rock ’n’ roll, when the hits kept coming and payola and the strong-arm tactics of the Mob were the norm, and what it was like, for better or worse, to be in the middle of it.

4e, geheel herziene en uitgebreide druk 1991

Now a Broadway play starring Mark Ruffalo, Tony Shalhoub, Danny DeVito, and Jessica Hecht, Miller’s riveting story about family, sacrifice, and the struggle to make peace with the past.

Years after an angry breakup, Victor and Walter Franz are reunited by the death of their father. As they sort through his possessions in an old brownstone attic, the memories evoked by his belongings stir up old hostilities. The Price was nominated for two Tony Awards, including best play.

Tekst van het theaterprogramma van de Nederlandse cabaretier.

Voor de tekst is gekozen de eerste uitgave van Lucifer van 1654 van Abraham van Wees (Unger, Bibliographie nr. 515).

De tragische maar onvermijdelijke van van een koning. Richard, beïnvloed door een hem omringende kliek van leiders en gunstelingen aan het hof, legde zijn onderdanen uitzinnig hoge belastingen op om zijn oorlogen te kunnen financieren. Uit onmacht verbant hij de kritische hertog Herord, Hendrik Bolingbroke. Als deze terugkeert om zijn vaders nalatenschap op te eisen, zet hij, te zamen met een aantal rebellen de koning af. Richard wordt gedwongen zijn kroon aan Hendrik over te dragen en belandt in de gevangenis. Daar wordt hij vermoord door aanhangers van de nieuwe koning.

Filmbesprekingen door een psychiater. 

filmbesprekingen in psychiatrisch perspectief

Praktische gids.

Four people with radically different outlooks on the world meet on a train and start talking about what they believe. Their conversation varies from cool logical reasoning to heated personal confrontation. Each starts off convinced that he or she is right, but then doubts creep in.

In a tradition going back to Plato, Timothy Williamson uses a fictional conversation to explore questions about truth and falsity, and knowledge and belief. Is truth always relative to a point of view? Is every opinion fallible? Such ideas have been used to combat dogmatism and intolerance, but are they compatible with taking each opposing point of view seriously? This book presupposes no prior acquaintance with philosophy, and introduces its concerns in an accessible and light-hearted way. Is one point of view really right and the other really wrong? That is for the reader to decide.

Ten years ago, Motley Crue’s bestselling The Dirt—penned with rock chronicler extraordinaire Neil Strauss—set a new bar for rock ’n’ roll memoirs. A genuine cultural phenomenon, this turbocharged blockbuster, with more than half a million copies in print, is now available in this deluxe, slipcased hardcover edition, timed to celebrate thirty wild years with rock’s most infamous band.

Overzicht van leven en werk van de Amerikaanse filmregisseur (1928-1999).

Bundel liedteksten, voorzien van commentaar waarin Wiegersma verhaalt over het onstaan en de achtergronden van de liedjes. Wiegersma was de tekstschrijver en levenspartner van cabaretier Wim Sonneveld.

Cabaretteksten en -liedjes van Nederlandse kleinkunstenaars uit het seizoen 1990-1991.

Toneelstuk over de beleving van de tijd. Los in het boek recensie De Groene Amsterdammer

A guilty verdict seems a foregone conclusion. But one member of the jury has the will to probe more deeply into the evidence and the courage to confront the ignorance and the prejudice of some of his fellow jurors. The conflict which follows is fierce and passionate, cutting straight to the heart of the issues of civil liberties and social justice.

By giving brief accounts of the lives, characters, and history of great violinists, this book brings out the special achievement of each. A "family tree" shows the stylistic lineage of such differing players as Perlman, Stern, and Menuhin in unbroken teacher-pupil continuity back to Corelli.

Toneelstuk in twee bedrijven