Backstage [[electronic resource] ] : stories from my life in public television / / Ron Hull

• Autore: Hull Ronald Eugene <1930->
• Pubblicazione: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.4302/32092; B
• Soggetto topico: Television producers and directors - United States; Television broadcasting - United States; College teachers - United States; Television broadcasting - United States - History - 20th century; Public television - United States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Where the West Begins in the Middle of . . .; 2 The Mystery in Grandmother's Trunk; 3 The Stranger in the Night; 4 The Hulls and the Kayes; 5 On Becoming a Storyteller; 6 Front and Center; 7 With Thanks to the GI Bill; 8 Our Town; 9 We Had a Dream; 10 Shapers of the Dream; 11 My Two Friends John Neihardt and Mari Sandoz; 12 Bringing Television to Vietnam; 13 Actors, Politicians, and Airplanes; 14 Like Dragons Taketo Maidens; 15 Brief and Memorable Far East Encounters; 16 Programming the Vietnamese Way; 17 Goodbye, Saigon ; 18 The House that Jack Built19 Back to Vietnam; 20 David and Goliath; 21 The Big Time; 22 Sandy, Jean, and Phil; 23 The Gang of Seven; 24 The Missed Opportunity; 25 Exciting Times, Stimulating People; 26 Feeling the "Old Washington Squeeze"; 27 The Peace Tree
• Sommario/riassunto: Born in 1930 in "Diddlin' Dora's" establishment on the banks of Rapid Creek and carried by the Madam herself to a social worker at the Alex Johnson Hotel in Rapid City, Ron Hull was destined from the outset to live an interesting life. And interesting it has indeed been, at the very least. A well-known and much-loved figure after six decades in television, Hull sets out in Backstage to tell his story-from playing a bellhop in a junior class play in South Dakota (and meeting his "real" mother backstage) to initiating the American Experience series for the Corporation for Public
• Titolo autorizzato: Backstage
• ISBN: 1-283-55078-4; 9786613863232; 0-8032-4453-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462208203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II