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Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon : Joe Queenan

Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon : Joe Queenan

Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon : Joe Queenan's America by Joe Queenan

Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon : Joe Queenan's America
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Author: Joe Queenan
Page Count: 194 pages
Published Date: 14 Apr 1999
Publisher: Hyperion
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780786884087
File Name: Red.Lobster,.White.Trash,.and.the.Blue.Lagoon.Joe.Queenan's.America.pdf
Download Link: Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon Joe Queenan's America
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For fourteen years, critic Joe Queenan walked past the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City without once even dreaming of venturing inside to see Cats. One fateful afternoon in March 1996, however, having grown weary of his hopelessly elitist lifestyle, he decided to buy a half-price ticket and check out Andrew Lloyd Webber's record-breaking juggernaut. No, he did not expect the musical to be any good, but surely there were limits to how bad it could be. Here, Queenan was tragically mistaken. Cats, what Grease would look like if all the cast members dressed up like KISS, was infinitely more idiotic than he had ever imagined. Yet now the Rubicon had been crossed. Queenan had involuntarily launched himself on a harrowing personal odyssey: an 18-month descent into the abyss of American popular culture. At first, Queenan found things to be every bit as atrocious as he expected. John Tesh defiling the temple of Carnegie Hall reminded him of Adolf Hitler goose-stepping in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. The Celestine Prophecy and The Horse Whisperer proved to be prodigiously cretinous. And the sight of senior citizens forking over their hard-earned nickels and dimes to watch Joe Pesci in Gone Fishin' so moved Queenan that he began standing outside the theater issuing refunds to exiting patrons. But then something strange happened. Queenan started enjoying Barry Manilow concerts. He went to see Julie Andrews and Liza Minnelli and Raquel Welch in Victor/Victoria. He said nice things about Larry King and Charles Grodin in his weekly TV Guide column. Most frightening of all, he shook hands with Geraldo Rivera. How Queenan finally escaped from the cultural Hot Zone and returned to civilizationis an epic tale as heart-warming, awe-inspiring, and life-affirming as Robinson Crusoe, The Adventures of Marco Polo, Gulliver's Travels, and Swiss Family Robinson. Well, almost.

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