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On Biography with Rachel Syme: Sam Wasson on Bob Fosse

The only person ever to win Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year, Bob Fosse revolutionized nearly every facet of American entertainment, forever marking Broadway and Hollywood with his iconic style.

Yet offstage his life was shadowed in turmoil and anxiety. Bestselling biographer Sam Wasson illuminates Fosse’s prodigious professional life, from The Pajama Game and Cabaret to All That Jazz and Chicago, as well as his close and conflicted relationships with everyone from Liza Minnelli to Jessica Lange and Dustin Hoffman.

Sam Wasson is the author of The New York Times bestseller Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman and two works of film criticism. His latest book is Fosse, a full-scale biography of the legendary director-choreographer.

Rachel Syme is the former Books Editor of NPR and a current contributor to NPR, The New York Times and the New Yorker. She is currently at work on a book for Random House about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s years in Hollywood and his love affair with the gossip columnist Sheilah Graham.











When: Tue., Jan. 21, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: From $21
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The only person ever to win Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year, Bob Fosse revolutionized nearly every facet of American entertainment, forever marking Broadway and Hollywood with his iconic style.

Yet offstage his life was shadowed in turmoil and anxiety. Bestselling biographer Sam Wasson illuminates Fosse’s prodigious professional life, from The Pajama Game and Cabaret to All That Jazz and Chicago, as well as his close and conflicted relationships with everyone from Liza Minnelli to Jessica Lange and Dustin Hoffman.

Sam Wasson is the author of The New York Times bestseller Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman and two works of film criticism. His latest book is Fosse, a full-scale biography of the legendary director-choreographer.

Rachel Syme is the former Books Editor of NPR and a current contributor to NPR, The New York Times and the New Yorker. She is currently at work on a book for Random House about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s years in Hollywood and his love affair with the gossip columnist Sheilah Graham.

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