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	Slapstick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slapstick is also common in animated cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes.
		Slapstick comedy has not escaped negative attention, though its lengthy presence in performance history and obviously fictitious nature often inures it from the censorious efforts aimed at video games and action films.
		Indeed, the uninterrupted modern presence of slapstick comedy--running in film from Buster Keaton to Mel Brooks to the Farrelly Brothers, and in live performance from Weber and Fields to Jackie Gleason to Rowan Atkinson--suggests it shall remain a part of the comedic landscape.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slapstick (422 words)

	Slapstick (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slapstick, or Lonesome No More is a 1976 science fiction novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut.
		Throughout the book, Wilbur claims that his sister Eliza is the more intelligent of the two, but no one realizes that because she can't write.
		Often surreal, the novel was written shortly after the death of the author's sister, and seems to be a bizarre meditation on the nature of their closeness.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slapstick_(book) (391 words)

	I Am The Rain King: Slapstick
		Slapstick is a novel about Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain (the last and tallest President of the United States) and his sister Eliza (inspired by Vonnegut and his sister Alice who he credits in the prologue as 'the person he has always written for').
		The book is written in the first person as an autobiography of our hero Wilbur as he looks back and reflects on his life.
		As you can probably tell, the book is pretty difficult to describe, which isn't super surprising given the amount of territory it covers and the speed in which it does so.
	jamieca.blogspot.com /2005/03/slapstick.html (499 words)

	Isle of Dogs Book at Shop Ireland
		She does try to introduce more humour into this particular series of books and in the other two it's largely successful, but in this one she focuses far more on humour and goes way over the top, descending in plain slapstick and stupidity.
		This book is at times painful to read as it plods along going nowhere in particular and trying to be funny.
		Here's what this book has in common with the Kay Scarpetta novels: It is located in Virginia; crimes, criminals, and bodies are involved; forensic medicine is explained from time to time; and medical examiners make brief appearances (pp.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/0316858609 (1073 words)

	The Three Stooges - Books
		Published in 1982, "The Three Stooges Scrapbook" is the official, authorized book on the history of the Three Stooges comedy team and on all aspects of their career.
		In 1977, upon completion of her father's book, "Moe Howard and the Three Stooges", a thought came to Joan Maurer that a book should be written about her Uncle Curly, everyone's favorite Stooge.
		This is a 'don't miss' book for any Stooge fan...covering all phases of the White Brothers, whose careers virtually span the entire life of the two-reel comedy short in America.
	www.3-stooges.com /books/books.html (1258 words)

	Comedy Is a Man in Trouble excerpt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Slapstick enables the beleaguered audience to stay here on earth and have the best good time; with a perfect sense of completeness, the clown's martyrdom becomes the good time the audience is having.
		Slapstick marks the death of you as a person of dignity and honor, who has to live his life just so and suffer tragically when the gods, other men, or his own drives make that impossible, and your rebirth as one of the happy, comfortable crowd not expected to uphold any impossible, vaguely aristocratic standards.
		Slapstick stars right up to the present are a hard-driving bunch who take their preeminence in their movies for granted (when they aren't fighting costars to assert it), even when they're playing virtuous and pitiable.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Dale/excerpt.html (9824 words)

	Amazon.com: Slapstick: Or, Lonesome No More! : A Novel: Books: Kurt Vonnegut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The main theme in "Slapstick" is lonliness, and the inexplicable human condition that forces each individual to search for acceptance into something bigger than just individual identity.
		In this book, you will meet weird and interesting characters, you will be presented with some far-out ideas about government, and gravity will no longer be constant.
		one would think a book with family names like daisy and daffodil would be light enough, but all-in-all this seems to be very serious work...after all, it is his autobiography.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385289359?v=glance (1709 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Book Smarts
		Dale's book moves chronologically, skimming lightly (almost, at times, too lightly) through the first half-century of American slapstick, from the Mack Sennett two-reelers that made names of Keaton, Chaplin, and Arbuckle to Lewis and Martin's churned-out oeuvre.
		Throughout, Dale underlines his profound main point -- that slapstick represents a comic making-of-peace with the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.
		Slapstick may tickle a few metaphysical nerves, but first and foremost it makes us laugh, hard and from the belly.
	austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-07-26/screens_roundup2.html (336 words)

	Slapstick Politics: Indoctrination Not Education In The Classroom
		While writing and photographing the book, I spoke with relatives of famous scientists and inventors, Holocaust survivors, award-winning biographers, and others who could help me ensure that the facts of the book were both accurate and vivid.
		But the book goes beyond a simple recitation of historical facts: the book presents the moral lessons of American history.
		The book is meant to challenge the young reader.
	slapstickpolitics.blogspot.com /2006/03/indoctrination-not-education-in.html (3046 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Slapstick [The Harold Gilbert Trilogy, Book II] by Laura Mazzuca Toops
		Slapstick [The Harold Gilbert Trilogy, Book II] [MultiFormat]
		Slapstick digs beneath the sunny optimism of the movies' Golden Age to examine how myths are made, both on and offscreen.
		It's a story of both the shipwrecked and the survivors of the film world's first big shakeup, and how they cope with one of man's most primal needs--the drive to create.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook32980.htm (883 words)

	The Vonnegut Zone - Slapstick
		Slapstick is the memoir of a one-hundred-year-old former president named Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain, who earlier, with his twin sister, had written the most popular child-care book ever.
		In Slapstick the two main characters are dehumanized because they are seen as freaks.
		Slapstick examines the social malaise in broad terms, using a futuristic setting of a balkanized America.
	www.geocities.com /aquamarine1438/slapstick.html (679 words)

	Thingamababy: Book Review: Richard Scarry's Biggest Word Book Ever! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Like the best Scarry books, it is packed with scenes, a million little things to look at.
		This book will no doubt see great wear in the coming years, which should fulfill a wish widely attributed to its author.
		One of the great things I like best about Richard Scarry's books is their ability to continue to intrigue and entertain kids from each successive generation.
	www.thingamababy.com /baby/2006/01/book_review_ric.html (492 words)

	20th-Century American Bestsellers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		I have called it “Slapstick” because it is grotesque, situational poetry--like the slapstick film comedies, especially those of Laurel and Hardy, of long ago.
		It is about what life feels like to me.” (Slapstick or lonesome no more!, Kurt Vonnegut, 1976) The characters and conflicts of Slapstick, however, transcend the limitations of an autobiographical novel, offering the social and human commentary which has characterized all of Vonnegut’s works.
		Of his reality as a person he wrote a letter to Drake School Board to protest the burning of his books in a campaign against pornography: “The news from Drake indicates to me that books and writers are very unreal to you people.
	www3.isrl.uiuc.edu /~unsworth/courses/bestsellers/search.cgi?title=Slapstick (3238 words)

	Augusta Georgia: features@ugusta: Comic strokes 4/26/97
		A boy asks what the book is about, and Dilbert says he's reading tips for his computer golf game.
		It's interesting as much for the way it shows the development of the comic strip as it is for what it has to say about the duffer's life.
		In the last 50 pages the modern strips begin to show up, and then you have as good a shot at laughing as you ever do when you turn to the crap shoot that is the comics page.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/042797/fea_gumpstrip.html (872 words)

	Laura Mazzuca Toops website - SLAPSTICK page
		It's a story of both the shipwrecked and the survivors of the film world's first big shakeup, and how they cope with one of man's most primal needs - the drive to create.
		"Slapstick is a vivid and touching portrait of Hollywood and its denizens in a bygone age, and it is one of the few Hollywood novels I've read that really captures the spirit of the many movie pioneers I came to know."
		Although there are a few chuckles here and there, this is not a comedy by any stretch of the imagination.
	www.lauratoops.com /slap.htm (550 words)

	Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde - A Book Excerpt
		One blast from the eraserhead in Bradshaw's rifle and the Minotaur would be reduced to the building blocks of his fictional existence: text and a bluish mist—all that is left when the bonds that link text to meaning are severed.
		We had been crossing from book to book for almost six days, and although we could escape in an emergency, such a course of action would give the Minotaur more than enough time to escape.
		The A-7s and McNeil would have to be sourced and replaced, the whole book rejigged to remove the twenty-sixth-century battle cruiser that had arrived uninvited into 1875 Nebraska.
	www.bookbrowse.com /excerpts/index.cfm?book_number=1435 (5449 words)

	HPR1.com / Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Paper Boat, poems by Cullen Bailey Burns, is a culmination of years of living, and of losing, yet the book may end up winning her something entirely different-a Minnesota Book Award.
		Burns is a finalist in two categories; she is one of five writers nominated for the poetry award and one of six nominated for the "New Voices" award.
		Paper Boat is one of three new books published by New Rivers Press in 2003, after it survived a suspension in 2001 that followed the death of its founder, Bill Truesdale, and financial trouble.
	www.hpr1.com /archives/apr1504/theatre.htm (1298 words)

	Review by Vurlee A. Bales: Slapstick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Set against the backdrop of the end of the decade of the Roaring 20's, SLAPSTICK is the tale of the end of an era.
		SLAPSTICK is a tale of glamour, fame, love, hate, jealousy, revenge, and loss.
		Toops is not just an author; she is a magnificent storyteller, and SLAPSTICK is a magnificent story.
	www.simegen.com /reviews/historical/slapstick.html (407 words)

	Book Club - First Selection - LadyMajora Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		I've had this book sitting on my shelf for several months now waiting to be read.
		In Slapstick, Vonnegut muses on war, man's hubris, and the awful, crippling loneliness humans are freighted with--but, miraculously, the book still manages to delight and amuse.
		This book is also older, so it should be pretty easy to find at a library or a used bookstore, for those of you who don't want to sign your paycheck directly over to bookstore like I foolishly do
	www.ladymajora.com /showthread.php?p=2727 (1487 words)

	Silent Era: Books: Comedy is a Man in Trouble by Alan Dale
		The book does not focus exclusively on silent slapstick, although Dale acknowledges that the genre reached a frantic pinnacle during the era.
		The remainder of the book that discusses the silent-era comedies does so with an educated but balanced tone that is both investigatively curious and appreciative of the filmmakers and the films discussed.
		Perhaps the best examination of American comedy films would be a book that is the irreverent equal to slapstick itself, a parody of academic narcissism that points up the ridiculousness of taking oneself and the world too seriously.
	www.silentera.com /books/dale-comedyBK.html (527 words)

	Comic Books in Newark, NJ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Comic books are avidly sought by collectors, who are often looking for missing comics to add to their collections.
		The earliest comic books produced in the United States were simply collections of comic strips that had originally been printed in newspapers.
		In fact, many people are serious collectors of comic books, which can increase in value according to their age and the popularity of their title.
	www.magicyellow.com /category/Comic_Books/Newark_NJ.html (334 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: The Book of Illusions
		In Paul Auster's new novel, The Book of Illusions, the figure at the center of the story—a promising slapstick comedian named Hector Mann—literally disappeared without trace in 1929.
		Auster's extraordinarily well-written and smartly plotted 10th novel is his third book with a filmic theme, and follows his latest novel, the best-selling Timbuktu.
		The Book of Illusions takes readers into a memorable film-like setting of vivid images and examines our ever-needful desire to read ourselves into the moving images on a blank white screen.
	www.bookpage.com /0209bp/fiction/book_of_illusions.html (317 words)

	All About Romance: Interview with Trish Jensen
		I found out that she had published two more books under her pen name of Trish Graves, and she was kind enough to send them to me. Well, they were just as enjoyable as The Harder They Fall and confirmed my opinion that Trish is one of the best writers of romantic comedy around.
		One of the toughest things to accomplish in a romantic comedy is writing the fl moment in the book (when all seems lost for the couple) and keeping the tone as light as the rest of the book, but also getting the reader to sympathize and root for the characters.
		But if you remember, in Susan Elizabeth Phillips's book, It Had To Be You, she opened with the funeral of her heroine's father.
	www.likesbooks.com /trishjensen.html (1994 words)

	Slapstick, or Lonesome No More: Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Family Values is an issue both major political parties have chosen for emphasis in this year's election.
		This subject is the theme for Kurt Vonnegut's 1976 novel Slapstick, Or Lonesome No More.
		The story is a history of Wilbur Daffodil-11 Roosevelt Swain, the last President of the United States.
	www.humanistsofutah.org /1992/artoct92.html (335 words)

	Playbill Features: Playbill Readers' Circle for August: 'I Will Be Cleopatra' and The Crucible
		Her book is structured like Moss Hart’s Act One or the Williams biography Tom in that it takes us up to the point when the subject became famous, apparently assuming that anyone who would buy the book already knows the rest pretty well.
		There are many points where her career might have gone on the rocks, but her book reads like a captain’s log of how she kept steering herself through the troubled waters of fame, with the star of her own talent always guiding her.
		The book gives glimpses of Miller’s research into the climate of religious panic that produced the eighteenth-century witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, and vicinity which condemned hundreds of innocent people to hanging or burning on evidence that was corrupt or coerced.
	www.playbill.com /features/article/76844.html (1317 words)

	KEN LAYNE'S "DOT-CON" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The book inevitably is as much about self-gagging by the media as corruption in the computing world.
		The level of New Economy reportage Layne describes in the book is veritable drivel.
		The book was titled "The Continuing Crisis." Now it's the name of my comrade Tim Blair's program on Radio National Australia, so he's been awarded the Continuing Crisis Web site.
	kenlayne.com /books.html (634 words)

	Review by Kara Wolf: Slapstick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Slapstick by Laura Mazzuca Toops is an excellent novel about Hollywood in the 1920s.
		The history between the two men (from the previous book, The Latham Loop) is recalled in a tense scene, and foreshadows the ending.
		Toops' characterization is flawless, and her description of Hal's tour through the world of the Depression was just amazing--small details made it truly real for the reader.
	www.coachlightpress.com /bygone/slapstick.shtml (207 words)

	AlFrankenWeb.com: Fox vs. Franken Transcript
		O'Reilly's photograph on the book's cover juxtaposed with the title is false and defamatory per se of Mr.
		That was their position, and, indeed, as your Honor has now seen and as counsel has now seen from the book itself, the book does make strong charges in that respect.
		In particular, titles, titles of books, movies, etc., have great protection under the First Amendment, and the Second Circuit has held in the Rogers case and the Cliff Notes case that the Lanham Act cannot could be construed narrowly to intrude on First Amendment values in this context.
	alfrankenweb.com /foxcourt.html (4099 words)

	Red Nose Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		This book was once considered the definitive text book on clowning, as it came out long before many of today's instructional books for clowning, at a time when printed material on clowning was scarce.The book is a clown encyclopedia of sorts, and in actuality has eight contributing authors.
		The book has 20 chapters and covers the usual topics most basic clown how-to books cover, such as juggling, skits, balloons, makeup, and magic, etc.
		Clown Scenes is a book put together by Tristan Remy who conducted interviews with great European clowns, and through those interviews and viewing performances he came up with scripts for some of their classic routines and entrees.
	dufferz.com /ceo/reviews.htm (704 words)

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