(Applause Books). He penned songs such as "Witchcraft" and "The Best Is Yet to Come" (signature tunes for Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett; respectively) and wrote such musicals as Sweet Charity ; I Love My Wife ; On the Twentieth Century ; and The Will Rogers Follies yet his life has gone entirely unexplored until now. You Fascinate Me So takes readers into the world and work of Tony; Grammy; and Emmy Award-winning composer/performer Cy Coleman; exploring his days as a child prodigy in the 1930s; his time as a hot jazz pianist and early television celebrity in the 1950s; and his life as one of Broadways preeminent composers. This first-time biography of Coleman has been written with the full cooperation of his estate; and it is filled with previously unknown details about his body of work. Additionally; interviews with colleagues and friends; including Marilyn and Alan Bergman; Ken Howard; Michele Lee; James Naughton; Bebe Neuwirth; Hal Prince; Chita Rivera; and Tommy Tune; provide insight into Colemans personality and career.
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Review
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Pretty much unreadable and irrelevantBy A photographerThis is a short article that appeared in a regional magazine of Southern culture. Being a Southerner by birth and a lover of William Egglestons photography for years; I was happy to part with 99 cents for the digital edition of the article. Unfortunately; that 99 cents would have been better spent on a package of chewing gum (if you can still get Wrigleys for 99 cents) because a pack of gum has more to offer than this insipid article.Writer Ben Child immediately brings Susan Sontags "On Photography" into the article and starts to interpret Egglestons photos from the book "The Democratic Forest" within Post Modern hogwash. The writer completely fails to understand any of the Eggleston work described and proceeds to coat every mentioned image with an irrelevant; meandering interpretation. Child equates the location notations of Egglestons photos with some deeper meaning and interpretation of the South and its association with everything from slavery to petroleum companies.Eggleston does not usually give titles to his photos. He only provides the location of the photo and a date. Child projects the location notation into something it is not--a distilled commentary by Eggleston on the place itself. This is not just a misinterpretation of Egglestons meaning; it is ignorance on every level of the artists work and it negates the basis of the entire essay.This article is unreadable and irrelevant with the only good thing about it being its brevity. Do yourself a favor and avoid it. Go chew a stick of Juicy Fruit instead.
