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One of the few female TV comedy writers of the early 1950s (or indeed any era), Kallen was on the writing team behind Your Show of Shows with Sid Caesar from 1950 to 1954. The show launched the careers of a number of comedy legends, including Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner and Larry Gelbart. Kallen was also the model for the Sally Rogers character on The Dick Van Dyke Show, which Reiner created in 1961. She also wrote six novels. Kallen died January 18th of cancer at age 76 at home in Ardsley, New York. From This is True for 17 January 1999 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Jerry HolkinsMike Krahulik List Price: $12.95 Amazon Price: $10.36 Editorial Review: Verily, the heroes of Penny Arcade return in the second volume of valiant chivalric deeds of brave heroism, heroic gallantry and gallant bravery! Forsooth! Sir Gabe and Sir Tycho return in Epic Legends of the Magic Sword Kings! Collecting all the Penny Arcade strips posted online from 2001 and 2002, Volume 2 includes creator commentary, a sketchbook section and an introduction from somebody sort of famous! If you haven't heard of Penny Arcade, the most poplular online comic ever, it might not be too late to salvage whatever reputation you have and get in on the fun all the cool people have been having. We won't tell anyone.  By: Justin Green List Price: $23.49 Amazon Price: $23.49 Editorial Review: In this 114-page softcover book, comic artist Justin Green captures monumental musical memories and odd and fascinating adventures in the lives of some of America's strangest and most beloved musicians, from old-time bluesmen to rock 'n roll icons, from Robert Johnson's deal with the devil to the drug-filled spiritual quest of Jim Morrison. These full page comics (over 100 separate stories, most are in full color, some are in black & white) originally appeared in Tower Records' Pulse! magazine, and this collection contains comics from March 1992 through November 2002, starting with Benny Meets Charlie and ending with Ukelele Ike. Afterword by the San Francisco Chronicle's Joel Selvin.  By: P. G. Wodehouse List Price: $3.99 Amazon Price: $3.19 Editorial Review: Fore! -- The Clicking of Cuthbert -- A Woman is Only a Woman -- A Mixed Threesome -- Sundered Hearts -- The Salvation of George Mackintosh -- Ordeal by Golf -- The Long Hole -- The Heel of Achilles -- The Rough Stuff -- The Coming of Gowf.Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - This book marks an epoch in my literary career. It is written in blood. It is the outpouring of a soul as deeply seared by Fate's unkindness as the pretty on the dog-leg hole of the second nine was ever seared by my iron. It is the work of a very nearly desperate man, an eighteen-handicap man who has got to look extremely slippy if he doesn't want to find himself in the twenties again. As a writer of light fiction, I have always till now been handicapped by the fact that my disposition was cheerful, my heart intact, and my life unsoured. Handicapped, I say, because the public likes to feel that a writer of farcical stories is piquantly miserable in his private life, and that, if he turns out anything amusing, he does it simply in order to obtain relief from the almost insupportable weight of an existence which he has long since realized to be a wash-out. Well, today I am just like that. Two years ago, I admit, I was a shallow farceur. My work lacked depth. I wrote flippantly simply because I was having a thoroughly good time. Then I took up golf, and now I can smile through the tears and laugh, like Figaro, that I may not weep, and generally hold my head up and feel that I am entitled to respect.  By: P. G. Wodehouse List Price: $4.99 Amazon Price: $3.99 Editorial Review: 185 pages.  By: P. G. Wodehouse List Price: $4.99 Amazon Price: $3.99 Editorial Review: Death at the Excelsior -- Misunderstood -- The best sauce -- Jeeves and the chump Cyril -- Jeeves in the springtime -- Concealed art -- The test case. |
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