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Burt Kearns
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Fairfield University
Occupations
author
writer
film director
journalist
television and film producer
Burt Kearns is an American author, journalist, and television and film producer, writer and director, whom Vanity Fair referred to as "a show business and pop culture savant."[1]
Kearns's book, Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel,[2][3] was published on April 2, 2024 by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books.[4] Applause will publish Kearns's next book, Shemp! The Biography of the Three Stooges' Shemp Howard, The Face of Film Comedy, on October 1, 2024.[5]
His biography of actor Lawrence Tierney,[6]Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy, was published in December, 2022 by the University Press of Kentucky.[7][8]The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage, which he wrote with Jeff Abraham, was published in 2019 by Chicago Review Press.[9][10]
Kearns's first book, the television memoir Tabloid Baby, was published in 1999.[11][12]
In 2018, he became a contributor to the literary pop culture website, PleaseKillMe.com.[13] In December 2021, he began to contribute written and video pieces to Legs McNeil’s literary pop culture website, Legsville.com.[14]
^"Killer Set: The Strange History of Performers Dying Onstage". Vanity Fair. 4 September 2019.
^"The photo that wrapped Marlon Brando's homoerotic swagger in a tight leather jacket =March 27, 2024". MSN.
^"Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel =March 29, 2024". Library Journal.
^Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel. Retrieved 30 September 2023 – via rowman.com.
^Shemp! The Biography of the Three Stooges' Shemp Howard, The Face of Film Comedy. Retrieved 4 February 2024 – via rowman.com.
^"Home". lawrencetierneybook.com.
^"Book About Late Actor and Notorious Bad Guy Lawrence Tierney Set from Writer-Producer Burt Kearns". The Hollywood Reporter. 9 June 2021.
^"Lawrence Tierney Bio Etches Vivid Portrait of Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy | Features | Roger Ebert".
^"Home". theshowwontgoon.com.
^"'Show Won't Go On': Book Compiles Performers Who Died Onstage". NPR.org.
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