Hope: Entertainer of the Century
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With his topical jokes and his all-American, brash-but-cowardly screen character, Bob Hope was the only entertainer to achieve top-rated success in every major mass-entertainment medium of the century, from vaudeville in the 1920s all the way to television in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He virtually invented modern stand-up comedy. Above all, he helped redefine the very notion of what it means to be a star: a savvy businessman, an enterprising builder of his own brand, and a public-spirited entertainer whose Christmas military tours and unflagging work for charity set the standard for public service in Hollywood.
As Richard Zoglin shows in this "entertaining and important book" (The Wall Street Journal), there is still much to be learned about this most public of figures, from his secret first marriage and his stint in reform school, to his indiscriminate womanizing and his ambivalent relationships with Bing Crosby and Johnny Carson. Hope could be cold, self-centered, tight with a buck, and perhaps the least introspective man in Hollywood. But he was also a tireless worker, devoted to his fans, and generous with friends.
"Scrupulously researched, likely definitive, and as entertaining and as important (to an understanding of twentieth- and twenty-first-century pop culture) as its subject once genuinely was" (Vanity Fair), Hope is both a celebration of the entertainer and a complex portrait of a gifted but flawed man. "A wonderful biography," says Woody Allen. "For me, it's a feast."
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Richard Zoglin. (2014). Hope: Entertainer of the Century. Simon & Schuster.
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Bob Hope (1903-2003) was interested in himself and his career, and not much else. He wasn't intellectually curious. He didn't care about causes that didn't affect him personally. He wasn't interested in other people. Except...that's not entirely true. He wrote long, personal, detail-filled letters to his fans. He always remembered a face. He traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the world visiting U.S. servicemen and -women. Hope's career spanned the whole of the 20th century, and for that reason alone an in-depth look at his life and career is long overdue. Zoglin (Comedy at the Edge) addresses the complexities that defined both Hope and the entertainment industry of his era in what should be the definitive biography of the comedian. Zoglin takes a subject who, outwardly at least, seems flat and easily defined and slowly peels back the layers of decades and the protective wrappings of celebrity to reveal an entertainment pioneer who has been vastly underappreciated. VERDICT This volume will be of interest to film and television scholars, comedy historians, United Service Organization buffs, and the general reading public looking for a well-written and entertaining account of one of the most famous celebrities of the last century.--Teri Shiel, Univ. of Connecticut Health Ctr. Lib., Farmington
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While Bob Hope's star had faded considerably in the decades before his death in 2003, from the 1940s through the 1960s he was arguably the world's most famous entertainer. Hence, a definitive biography of this legendary performer has long been overdue, an undertaking Time magazine theater critic Zoglin completes here with great attention to detail and commendable skill. As Zoglin points out in the introduction, Hope was a pioneer in developing the rapid-fire, self-effacing monologue rife with jokes that comedians such as Johnny Carson later emulated. Hope was also instrumental in launching entertainer branding, with his famous ski-nosed caricature recognizable almost everywhere even today. Beginning with Hope's hardscrabble upbringing in England and Cleveland, Ohio, as the son of a stonecutter, Zoglin follows the comedian's career from vaudeville acts in the 1920s through his now classic films with Bing Crosby and his yearly Christmas tours lifting the spirits of U.S. troops overseas. Not just for Hope fans, Zoglin's work will also appeal to readers interested in the colorful history of American entertainment, in which Hope played a prominent role.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)
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