In Heaven Everything Is Fine The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre

by Frank, Josh; Buckholtz, Charlie

• ISBN13: 9781593762704
• ISBN10: 1593762704
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-15
• Publisher: Soft Skull

Summary

Frank presents this riveting examination of the visionary host of the 1980s cult-favorite cable show "New Wave Theatre" and his brutal unsolved murder. 16 pages of bw photographs.

Author Biography

Josh Frank is a screenwriter, composer, and director. He is the author, with Caryn Ganz, of Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies. Charlie Buckholtz, a freelance writer, received an MFA from Syracuse University and is currently working on his first novel.

Table of Contents

Selected Cast of Characters	p. ix
Why Peter? Long Day's Journey into Knight of the Blue Communion	p. xv
Note to Readers	p. xxi
Prologue: A View from The Top	p. 1
One Year Earlier	p. 11
Wrestling With the Classics
I March Forth!	p. 21
Freshman: From the Paradise to the Gods	p. 28
Close-up: Class Acts at Harvard	p. 39
Case Book Part 1	p. 41
ôUndergraduates Are Not Allowed to Rent Elephants.ö (Finding Their Inner Elephant at Harvard)	p. 46
Close-up: The Three Musketeers	p. 60
Case Book Part 2	p. 63
ôMy Father Was a Madman and I Had No Sonsö: Setting the Stage with Tim and Peter	p. 67
Close-up: The Theatrics of Tim, the Music of Peter, and the National Parody of a Giggle of a Protest	p. 85
Case Book Part 3	p. 90
Music for Cash
Hollywood's Pet	p. 95
Close-up: The æ70s in Sunny Los Angeles	p. 116
Case Book Part 4	p. 120
The Lady in the Radiator	p. 124
Close-up: Dream Weavers and Eraserheads	p. 144
Case Book Part 5	p. 151
Our Paris in the æ20s	p. 154
Close-up: Harvard in Hollywood: The New Wave of Comedy	p. 189
Case Book Part 6	p. 199
A Television Show for Armageddon
The Four Laws of Spermodynamics	p. 209
Close-up: New Wave Takes Flight	p. 235
Case Book Part 7	p. 247
I Could Be Brilliant	p. 251
Phone Calls	p. 273
Case Book Part 8	p. 279
What is the Meaning of Life?	p. 286
Epilogue: Still in Heaven	p. 301
Afterword by Cold Case Detective Cliff Shepard	p. 303
Selected Works	p. 305
Sources	p. 307
Acknowledgments	p. 312
Index	p. 314
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