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Zero Mostel: A Biography Hardcover – January 1, 1989

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Chronicles the life and career of the actor best known for his role on Broadway as Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof," revealing his talents as a painter and his experiences under McCarthyism

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Brown, author of The Fabulous Lunts: A Biography of Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne ( LJ 7/86), has written a biography which lauds the comic genius of Mostel, while not overlooking the actor's many serious character flaws. A study in contradictions, Mostel was a serious and talented painter, as well as an actor and comic whose larger-than-life personality often took over the roles he played. A victim of blacklisting during the 1950s and of a serious accident in 1960, which left him with a permanently crippled leg, Mostel rebounded to his greatest Broadway successes during the 1960s in Rhinoceros, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum , and Fiddler on the Roof . Although the text is somewhat repetitious, this is full of anecdotes documenting both sides of Mostel's personality.
- Marcia L. Perry, Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Mass.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Atheneum (January 1, 1989)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0689119550
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0689119552
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.54 pounds

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Jared Brown is Professor Emeritus of Theatre from Western Illinois University and the former Director of the School of Theatre Arts at Illinois Wesleyan University. He has published six books, all of them carried by Amazon.com: The Fabulous Lunts, Zero Mostel: A Biography, The Theatre in America During the Revolution, Alan J. Pakula: His Films and His Life, and Mind the Gap and 2 Other Mysteries. He lives in Bloomington, Illinois.

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babyboomerlarry

lousy writing but good information

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 29, 2012

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On the one hand, buy the book because you learn plenty about Zero Mostel's life.
On the other hand, poorly written book. Take it from someone who has read over 250 biographies in the past three years. Over 300 pages, but you will skip at least 100 because it is overwritten. The author, supposedly a respected college professor, gets confused as to whether he was writing an academic presentation on the life of Zero Mostel and the history of the blacklisting or something by which the reader can be entertained. Most people pick up a bio of someone who won 3 Tony Awards because they want to know about his upbringing, start in show business, and the backstage events that took place during film and theater production. They could care less about a history lesson or the author's trying to make points about the politics of the time and/or some deep psychological understanding of the man. This was pure elitist breast beating.

Several times he mentions that the audiences loved Zero and didn't care about the behind-the-scenes pettiness, jealousies, overacting and showing up other actors. Hey, I started watching him in the early 1960's when Fiddler came out. And I'm part of the majority who just adored him. So, like I said- be prepared to skip lots of pages to get the details that are more of interest rather than the dull pedantic journalist narration.

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Larry Gevirtz

Fascinating and Detailed Biography

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This is an extensively researched and excellently written biography of the famed comic and musical comedy star Zero Mostel. The author has done numerous interviews in trying to capture the complex personality of someone who was both a gifted performer and a very egotistical individual. He does not shy away from revealing the negatives in Mostel's character, though he balances it with indications that Mostel could be very charitable when he so desired. It is a fascinating potrayal of a very interesting man.

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cliffordo

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 7, 2015

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If you love Zero, then you should read this very good biography about his life....

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 16, 2013

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Couldn't put it down. It brought Broadway's greatest clown and dramatic actor to life on every page. Jared Brown captured the essence of a legend. Michael Ballam

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 14, 2015

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Bought as a gift for his Grandaughter

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Robert C Etienne

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 11, 2015

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Poignant, Sad in some ways, Unforgettable

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 28, 2016

The story of the blacklisting in Hollywood during the "McCarthy era and this is a fine forum for some of that history since it had such a profound impact upon the life and work of Zero Mostel. The book is very detailed and one can get bogged down occasionally with a sense of repetition, but I found the book well worth reading...I don't feel that the subject is exhausted either and I am now curious about other books that have been written about Zero, and there are several. All in all Zero Mostel was a great actor, a funny man, a painter and alot more. check out a utube video of his rendition of "If I were a rich man" from Fiddler on the Roof", while you are at it!

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Freyda Thomas

Very well done bio.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 25, 2014

A very comprehensive biography, and written with an interesting flair.

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