David Bruce

Cool and Funny People: 250 Anecdotes and Stories (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book contain many anecdotes, most of them funny. (I hope.) A Sample: 1) In 1985, Judi Dench appeared in a BBC-TV production of Ghosts. The director decided that the credits would feature a scene with the characters of the play eating a meal. No actual dialogue would be heard on TV during the rolling of the credits, only a murmur under some music. This left the cast free to improvise their own dialogue and try to make the other cast members laugh. For example, Ms. Dench's character was asked if she wanted any potatoes. They were large potatoes, and she answered, "Yes, please. I'll take twelve." Ms. Dench frequently plays practical jokes on stage. In A Little Night Music, each night she wrote a new message on her corset where her fellow actors could see it but the audience could not. Once, her corset was decorated with the message "Happy New Year." On the last night of the play, the message was a joke directed to her USAmerican co-star, Laurence Guittard: "Go home, Yank." 2) Eudora Welty admitted that she was bad at coming up with titles. For one book, everyone seemed to dislike most of her titles. The only title that no one had an opinion about was A Curtain of Green. Her editor told her that the title did have a certain advantage: "If we call it A Curtain of Green, you'll never need another title. Your second book could be A Curtain of Black and the one after that A Curtain of Blue. Your final book could just be called Curtains."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David Bruce
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798227718495
• Artikelnr.: 72863681

Autorenporträt

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a cry rang out, and on a hot summer night in 1954, Josephine, wife of Carl Bruce, gave birth to a boy me. Unfortunately, this young married couple allowed Reuben Saturday, Josephine's brother, to name their first-born. Reuben, aka "The Joker," decided that Bruce was a nice name, so he decided to name me Bruce Bruce. I have gone by my middle name David ever since.

Being named Bruce David Bruce hasn't been all bad. Bank tellers remember me very quickly, so I don't often have to show an ID. It can be fun in charades, also. When I was a counselor as a teenager at Camp Echoing Hills in Warsaw, Ohio, a fellow counselor gave the signs for "sounds like" and "two words," then she pointed to a bruise on her leg twice. Bruise Bruise?

Oh yeah, Bruce Bruce is the answer!

Uncle Reuben, by the way, gave me a haircut when I was in kindergarten. He cut my hair short and shaved a small bald spot on the back of my head. My mother wouldn't let me go to school until the bald spot grew out again.

Of all my brothers and sisters (six in all), I am the only transplant to Athens, Ohio. I was born in Newark, Ohio, and have lived all around Southeastern Ohio. However, I moved to Athens to go to Ohio University and have never left.

At Ohio U, I never could make up my mind whether to major in English or Philosophy, so I got a bachelor's degree with a double major in both areas, then I added a Master of Arts degree in English and a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy. Yes, I have my MAMA degree.

Currently, and for a long time to come (I eat fruits and veggies), I am spending my retirement writing books such as Nadia Comaneci: Perfect 10, The Funniest People in Comedy, Homer's Iliad: A Retelling in Prose, and William Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Retelling in Prose.

If all goes well, I will publish one or two books a year for the rest of my life. (On the other hand, a good way to make God laugh is to tell Her your plans.)

By the way, my sister Brenda Kennedy writes romances such as A New Beginning and Shattered Dreams.