Alan King (1) (1927–2004)
Autore di Matzo Balls for Breakfast: And Other Memories of Growing Up Jewish
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Sull'Autore
Alan King is currently starring as the legendary Sam Goldwyn in the off-Broadway production Mr. Goldwyn. He lives in Long Island, New York.
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Kniberg, Irwin Alan (birth name)
- Data di nascita
- 1927-12-26
- Data di morte
- 2004-05-09
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Kings Point, New York, USA
- Attività lavorative
- comedian
actor
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 6
- Opere correlate
- 12
- Utenti
- 217
- Popolarità
- #102,846
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 21
- Lingue
- 1
The title had to be explained to me--the Foreword by author provides the explanation: we all harbor the secret belief the future will be revealed in a fortune cookie, and when his family dines out they each read their Fortune cookie messages. His children all know that, again, Alan King will come up with the SAME line.
Now he expands it. "We're all prisoners of the new society..." the system and its institutions. This book is his attempt to get a laugh at "the system", and provide a bit of hope for us all.
The sense of hope in the crumbling cookie. Jewish humor. Also, the slapstick perspective of life in the Little League and PTA suburbs of 1960s. Reading this book of his really fun complaints about his life makes me yearn for the past when compared to today's post-Bush destruction of the middle class.
For example, our First Lady made a few statements about the importance of physical exercise and healthy lunches in schools and suddenly the Fox News network was screaming about "Government control over our lives". Well...in the 60s the President set up a new Department for Physical Fitness, and Allen's children were bringing pamphlets from school on home exercise challenges. [56] "Did you know the number-one health problem in the United States is obesity? [64] No one screamed about Big Government then. The entire lifestyle he satirizes -- one-earner households, public schools with full programs 5 days a week, access to medical care, lawyers, and comfortable airlines -- is unavailable today.
politics, social studies, suburban life, American, 1960s… (altro)