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• "Defying Gravity" details Stephen Schwartz's sometimes difficult dealings with the Walt Disney Company

  Jim Hill reviews Carol de Gieve's career biography of this Academy Award-winning songwriter, which features some great behind-the-scenes stories about the five Disney projects that Schwartz worked on Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:00 AM | 6 Comments Filed under: book, Disney, DreamWorks, Broadway, musical, Michael Eisner, Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, DreamWorks Animation, Stephen Schwartz, Los Angeles, Walt Disney Studios, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Broadway musical, September, animated feature, 2007, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Disney Feature Animation, Peter Schneider, London, TV movie, show business , 1996 , 1986, Tony, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Academy Award-winning, world premiere, Walt Disney Company, musical theater, musical theater fan, Broadway credits, trio, long running hits, long running hit, hit, Godspell, Pippin, Wicked, Disneyana fan, resume, lyricist, 1990s, 1978, Working, Radiator Springs, Children of Eden, 1991, graduate school, NYU, therapist, Sir Tim Rice, A Whole New World, Kevin Bannerman, Carol de Giere, Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz from Godspell to Wicked, Applause Books, softcover, songwriter, career, lyrics, 1992, Shirley Jones, Colors of the Wind, John Smith, Native Americans, Romeo, Romeo & Juliet, Juliet, West Side Story, Something's Coming, creative process, 1994, The Prince of Egypt, China, Matthew Wilder, David Zippel, Written in Stone, Destiny, Geppetto, Academy Award-nominee, Enchanted, Gregory Maguire, middling reviews, rhyme, reviews

• "They'll Never Put That on the Air" reveals how to grow a hit television series

  Jim Hill reviews Allan Neuwirth's latest book. In which TV veterans talk about how they took shaky new shows and eventually turned them into smash hits like "M*A*S*H," "All in the Family" and "Seinfeld" Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 12:00 AM | 7 Comments Filed under: book, ABC, Michael Eisner, CBS, NBC, Fox, Seinfeld, television, William S. Paley, Tom Moore, Swoosie Kurtz, Stephanie Lemelin, Sam Huntington, Orbit the Dog, Norman Lear, Nick Kroll, Martin Starger, Lucille Ball, Leonard Goldberg, Lee Pace, Larry Gelbart, Kristen Chenoweuth, Kaitlin Doubleday, Julie White, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Jackie Gleason, Glen Hanson, George Schlatter, Gene Reynolds, Fred Silverman, Emmy Awards, Ellen Greene, Dick Martin, Dan Rowan, Chi McBride, Carl Reiner, Brandon Tartikoff, Bill English, Barry Diller, Jim Belushi, Anna Friel, Allan Neuwirth, They'll Never Put That on the Air: An Oral History of Taboo-Breaking TV Comedy, The Honeymooners, Pushing Daisies, Laugh-In, Here's Lucy, Gunsmoke, Cavemen, Bewitched, All in the Family