Conversations With S.J. Perelman

by Perelman, S. J.; Teicholz, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780878057900
• ISBN10: 0878057900
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-04-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

Collections of interviews with notable modern writers

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chronology
Who Are the Perelmans?	p. 3
Perelman Tries a Series for TV	p. 6
Talk with the Author	p. 8
Travel Talk	p. 10
S. J. Perelman	p. 12
Groucho, Perelman, and Tynan Talk about Funny Men	p. 24
Conversations	p. 29
S. J. Perelman's World of Whimsical Wizardry	p. 42
That Perelman of Great Price Is 65	p. 45
Appalled Perelman Going Eastward Ha!	p. 56
Pun and Names with S. J.	p. 58
S. J. Perelman Takes a Powder	p. 63
Lumpen Doyen of Hollywood Wits	p. 71
In the Footsteps of Phileas Fogg	p. 77
Words and Their Masters	p. 80
S. J. Perelman - He's America's Lampoonist Laureate	p. 90
Interview with S. J. Perelman	p. 94
Perelman	p. 105
From Paris to Peking with Perelman	p. 109
Perelman in Cloudsville	p. 112
Interview with S. J. Perelman	p. 117
One Kaddish, Sunny Side Up, and Hold the Lachrymae	p. 128
Index	p. 133
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