Write That Down!: The Comedy of Male Actress Charles Pierce

by Kirk Frederick, Armistead Maupin (Foreword by)

Overview

The first, authorized biographical tribute to Charles Pierce, the foremost "male actress" of the 20th Century. Born in 1926, Pierce went from playing small gay clubs in San Francisco to international acclaim. His send ups of icons Bette Davis, Mae West, Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Channing, Katharine Hepburn, and Joan Crawford garnered him fans across the globe and lifelong friendships with Hollywood celebrities like "Golden Girls" star Bea Arthur. Pierce also enjoyed a TV and film career, notably as Bertha Venation in the groundbreaking feature film "Torch Song Trilogy" with Harvey Fierstein, Matthew Broderick, and Anne Bancroft. Author Kirk Frederick captures the essence of Pierce in a thoroughly entertaining, revealing, and funny biographical tribute as only someone who knew him on and off the stage could. Foreword by Armistead Maupin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780982285374
Publisher:	Lexicon Public Relations
Publication date:	12/14/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	174
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Kirk Frederick is a long-time writer of travel articles, and a first-time author of the non-fiction "Write That Down! The Comedy of Male Actress Charles Pierce." As the legendary comic's producer, stage manager, dresser, co-performer, publicist, and friend for over 20 years, Mr. Frederick was well-versed in Mr. Pierce's biographical anecdotes, as well as having near-perfect recall of his volumes of funny, witty, clever, and insightful comedy material.
Armistead Maupin was born in Washington, D.C., in 1944 but grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean and with the River Patrol Force in Vietnam. Maupin worked briefly as a reporter for a newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, before being assigned to the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971. The climate of freedom and tolerance he found in his adopted city inspired him to come out publicly as homosexual in 1974. Two years later, he launched his "Tales of the City" serial in the San Francisco Chronicle, the first fiction to appear in an American daily for decades. Maupin is the author of nine novels, including the six-volume Tales of the City series, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener and, most recently, Michael Tolliver Lives. Three miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three novels in the Tales series. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. He lives in Santa Fe with his husband, the photographer Christopher Turner.