Author Archive for: ‘Heather Heckman’

Scott McMillin, The Musical as Drama. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 691 12730 1 US$24.95 (hb) 248pp (Review copy supplied by Princeton University Press) Scott McMillin’s The Musical as Drama, his last completed book before his death at 71, is a labor of love. Staunchly defending a much-maligned genre, McMillin sets his sights high, writing, “The musical …

Samantha Barbas, The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 520 24213 0 417pp US$29.95 (hb) (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) Roughly a century has passed since the dawn of movie star worship, and it therefore seems fitting that attention should again turn to …