Heartland

By Mort Sahl

Book Overview

Mort Sahl is the pioneer and still the champion of stand-up contemporary satire. As Woody Allen attests, he is the forerunner of today's comedians. This book evokes reflection and laughter. In Mort... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151398208
• ISBN13: 9780151398201
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Heartland

It seems that "heartland" is written more like a jazz composition, than an autobiography. mort knew lots of famous and powerful people, mentioning some of them, particularly Hugh ("call me hef") Heffner. for instance, the fact that jack Webb ("dragnet" -- badge 714 -- incidentally, the number of home runs hit by babe Ruth) usually, only left his house to go to the studio, and had a really state-of-the-art sound system for back then. Mort had a wonderful television show around the late sixties - early seventies on Metromedia. really enjoyed watching him with the chalk board expounding on the political spectrum, and he always kept coming back to the "right-wing social democrats"! he really did spend too much time on the Kennedy assassination, since we'll never know if Oswald and ruby were lone kooks or not. this obsession became tiresome after awhile, and certainly hurt his ratings. from Wikipedia: "Sahl, whose father was an FBI Administrator, was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The family soon moved to Los Angeles, California. Sahl joined the ROTC unit at Belmont High School (Los Angeles, California) and also was on the staff of the school's newspaper. After high school, Sahl enlisted in the United States Air Force and was stationed in Alaska. In 1950, he graduated from University of Southern California with majors in traffic engineering and city management [how surprisingly boring!]. He then began performing standup comedy at the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco". from me again: i remember a scene from a rat pack movie, where mort sahl had only one line before being blown away! also, liked mort in the fox hole with bobby Darin imparting the lowdown in some war movie. i could only give "heartland" 4 stars just because of the lack of information . seems that mort prefers to be some sort of mysterious phantom -- a chimera. lastly, correction for Wikipedia: mort sahl on werner von braun's book: "i aim for the moon". mort: "but he missed and hit London".