About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 41. Chapters: Bye Bye Birdie, Persuasion, The Piano Lesson, The Tuskegee Airmen, Joseph, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Problem Child 3: Junior in Love, Here Come the Munsters, Falling from the Sky: Flight 174, Big Dreams and Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story, She Fought Alone, If Someone Had Known, A Bucket of Blood, Bullet to Beijing, Anne Frank Remembered, Truman, Loved Up, Jonny Quest vs. The Cyber Insects, Vanished, The Stranger Beside Me, The Four Diamonds, Mixed Blessings, Citizen X, Indictment: The McMartin Trial, The Canterville Ghost, Net Worth, Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, Tyson, Night Watch, Baywatch the Movie: Forbidden Paradise, Piranha, Black Scorpion, Ebbie, The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space, Full Body Massage, Freaky Friday, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Heidi Chronicles, Under the Piano, Annie: A Royal Adventure!, Bonanza: Under Attack, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Alien Nation: Body and Soul, Go Now, End of Summer, Amanda and the Alien, The Other Woman, A Village Affair, Virus, An Eye on X, Absolute Guitar, Victor/Victoria, Nikolaikirche, Vietnam: The Camera At War, Redwood Curtain, Journey, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes. Excerpt: Bye Bye Birdie is a stage musical with a book by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. Originally titled Let's Go Steady, the satire on American society is set in 1958. The story was inspired by the phenomenon of popular singer Elvis Presley and his draft notice into the Army in 1957. The rock star character's name, "Conrad Birdie," is word play on the name of Conway Twitty. Twitty is best remembered today for his long career as a country music star, but before that, in the late 1950s, he was one of Presley's rock 'n' roll rivals. The original Broadway product...