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Lost in the Funhouse: The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman

From renowned journalist Bill Zehme, author of the New York Times bestselling The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin', comes the first full-fledged biography and the only complete story of the late comic genius Andy Kaufman. Based on six years of research, Andy's own unpublished, never-before-seen writings, and hundreds of interviews with family members, friends, and key players in Andy's endless charades, many of whom have become icons in their own right, Lost in the Funhouse takes us through the maze of Kaufman's mind and lets us sit deep behind his mad, dazzling blue eyes to see, firsthand, the fanciful landscape that was his life.  Controversial, chaotic, splendidly surreal, and tragically brief--what a life it was.Andy Kaufman was often a mystery even to his closest friends. Remote, aloof, impossible to know, his internal world was a kaleidoscope of characters fighting for time on the outside. He was as much Andy Kaufman as he was Foreign Man (dank you veddy much), who became the lovably bashful Latka on the hit TV series Taxi. He was as much Elvis Presley as he was the repugnant Tony Clifton, a lounge singer from Vegas who hated any audience that came to see him and who seemed to hate Andy Kaufman even more. He was a contradiction, a paradox on every level, an artist in every sense of the word.During the comic boom of the seventies, when the world had begun to discover the prodigious talents of Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, John Belushi, Bill Murray, and so many others, Andy was simply doing what he had always done in his boyhood reveries. On the debut of Saturday Night Live, he stood nervously next to a phonograph that scratchily played the theme from Mighty Mouse. He fussed and fidgeted, waiting for his moment. When it came, he raised his hand and moved his mouth to the words "Here I come to save the day!" In that beautiful deliverance of pantomime before the millions of people for whom he had always dreamed about performing, Andy triumphed. He changed the face of comedy forever by lurching across boundaries that no one knew existed. He was the boy who made life his playground and never stopped playing, even when the games proved too dangerous for others.  And in the end he would play alone, just as he had when it was all only beginning.In Lost in the Funhouse, Bill Zehme sorts through a life of disinformation put forth by a master of deception to uncover the motivation behind the manipulation. Magically entertaining, it is a singular biography matched only by its singular subject.

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• Hardcover : 199 pages


• Title : Lost in the Funhouse: The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman


• Language : English


• ISBN-10 : 385333714

 

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Lost in the Funhouse
Lost in the Funhouse is a short story collection by American author John Barth. The postmodern stories are extremely self conscious and self reflexive and are considered to exemplify metafiction. Though Barth's reputation rests mainly on his long novels, the stories "Night Sea Journey", "Lost in the Funhouse", "Title" and "Life Story" from Lost in the Funhouse are widely anthologized. The book appeared the year after the publication of Barth's essay The Literature of Exhaustion, in which Barth s
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In “Lost in the Funhouse,” the author, John Barth, writes a story about someone, a narrator, who is himself writing a story about Ambrose, a boy of thirteen. In writing the story about Ambrose, the...
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Lost In The Funhouse; Fiction For Print, Tape, Live Voice is John Barth's response to a gauntlet Marshall McLuhan was throwing down back in the heady days of the sixties regarding the immanent demise of the work of art as printed text and the subsequent decline in the fortunes of the Gutenberg family. Sound familiar?
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On the surface, “Lost in the Funhouse” is the story of a thirteen year old boy’s trip to the beach with his family on the fourth of July during World War II. With Ambrose are his older brother Peter, their mother and father, their Uncle Karl, and a fourteen year old neighbor girl, Magda, to whom both Ambrose and Peter are attracted.
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"Lost in the Funhouse" is about the technique of building plot and characters and making things interesting without getting "lost." Barth was a master at analytical writing, but also knew the dangers of it sometimes, when you look too closely at things, or study your feelings too much, they don’t make sense anymore.
Lost in the Funhouse Postmodernism
John Barth’s titular short story, ‘Lost in the Funhouse’, from his subversive short story collection Lost in the Funhouse, is an overt example of the theories discussed elsewhere and in more detail on this website. In terms of story, ‘Lost in the Funhouse’ is a rather simple tale that deals with a family trip to an amusement park and specifically, the funhouse.
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Based on six years of research, Andy's own unpublished, never before seen writings, and hundreds of interviews with family members, friends, and key players in Andy's endless charades, many of whom have become icons in their own right, Lost in the Funhouse takes us through the maze of Kaufman's mind and lets us sit deep behind his mad, dazzling blue eyes to see, firsthand, the fanciful landscape that was his life.

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