Overheard on a Bus, by Tom Soter
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Newly revised and updated! OVERHEARD ON A BUS is Tom Soter’s collection of witty, touching, perceptive, and funny reflections on people – both famous and not – he has met, places he has visited, and experiences he has had. Here are meetings with film great Charlie Chaplin, cult TV star Patrick McGoohan (THE PRISONER), baby boomer icon Fess Parker (DANIEL BOONE), and such notables as Patrick Macnee (THE AVENGERS), Raymond Burr (PERRY MASON), Stan Lee (SPIDER-MAN), Roald Dahl (THE WITCHES), Lalo Schifrin (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE) and John Barry (GOLDFINGER), and the former Lord Chancellor of England, Gerald Gardiner. Here are strange encounters with wired comedians, and memorable moments with Tom's eccentric family. Here is life, unfolding in a marvelous collection of stories that will make you laugh, make you cry, and that led former ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY critic Tom Sinclair to observe: "By turns humorous and heart-wrenching, OVERHEARD ON A BUS makes for engrossing reading - on a bus or in your living room!"
Overheard on a Bus, by Tom Soter- Published on: 2015-03-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .39" w x 6.00" l, .53 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 172 pages
About the Author Tom Soter is a writer, editor, and improv teacher. He has written for Entertainment Weekly, Diversion, Backstage, The New York Observer, Empire, and countless other magazines.and newspapers. He was the managing editor of Firehouse magazine from 1978-81, and since 1982, he has been an editor at Habitat magazine, the definitive publication for boards of cooperatives and condominiums in New York City. He has authored three previous books, Bond and Beyond: 007 and Other Special Agents, a study of spy movies and television programs; Investigating Couples: An Analysis of The Thin Man, The Avengers, and The X-Files; and Some Thoughts and Some Photos, a memoir. He currently produces and performs in the Sunday Night Improv comedy jam, which he has run since 1993, and has been teaching improv since 1987. He lives with his partner, Christine, in New York City.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A boy (and later a man) oddly, amusingly obsessed By Ian Prior I first met Tom Soter in the early 1980s. Over the years, as our friendship ebbed and flowed, I grew accustomed to hearing about his unusual childhood obsessions, his celebrity meetings and his quirky family (most of whom I met). So I began reading "Overheard On a Bus" with a sense of familiarity, if not duty. "Uh, sure, Tom, I'd love to read your book."I needn't have worried. The book is a blast. With a writing style that's easygoing yet delightfully, subtly snarky, and occasionally inspired, these reminiscences, many with 1970s New York City as a backdrop, are by turns charming, touching and flat-out funny.As a boy, Tom admired (read: was obsessed with) actors such as Raymond Burr ("Perry Mason"), Patrick Macnee ("The Avengers") and Patrick McGoohan ("The Prisoner"). When as a grown-up he later meets and interviews his long-time idols, for a collection of magazine articles, you can feel his boyish delight, and his occasional disillusionment, as these celebrities of an earlier era open up to him in surprising (and priceless) ways.The stories about his mother and father, a man with obsessions of his own (e.g., The New Yorker magazine), revel in the delights and frustrations of family life. Tom recounts the loss of one to Alzheimer's and the other to cancer with a restraint that is moving, pure and simple.A few words of caution. If you are a punctuation freak, or a spelling maven, gird your loins; "Overheard" could've used some additional proofing. Also, I'm not entirely sure why some of the less engrossing stories are lumped toward the end of the book. I'd re-order.Those quibbles aside, I thoroughly recommend "Overheard On a Bus." There may be no overarching "theme" beyond Soter himself, and that's as it should be, in my opinion. We witness a boy who becomes a man -- a TV producer, a film maker, a writer, an improv teacher -- with his childhood passions under control yet still intact. Who among us can say that?
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Emotionally Moving By Camilla Work New Yorker Tom Soter's collection of memoir essays are at once highly personal and achingly universal, with movingly relatable stories of a fiery mother who raged against encroaching Alzheimer's; of a colorful, talented "Mad Men" father who continued as a jovial family ringmaster virtually up to the moment cancer took his life, two sons by his side; of an requited college love; of students simultaneously exasperating and inspiring; and of a childhood encounter with Charlie Chaplin that brings the man's humanity and simple decency into stark relief.The style is conversational and engaging, the tone genuinely humble and the voice intelligent and articulate. This has the makings of a cult classic, passed around friend to friend. While the stories of his encounters with TV and film stars whom he interviews for various magazines aren't necessarily illuminating -- except, perhaps, for one featuring the entrepreneurially self-reinventing Fess Parker -- this look into the mind of a lifelong Upper West Sider is a valuable document ... that of the real life of one of the legions of working writers-performers in the creative capital of the world, one of those who may not be stars but who make a full-time living as a creative professional. This is what that life's like, told intimately and from the inside.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. That's Life... By Margaret Geraghty Written with great humor and heart, Overheard on a Bus is a very engaging and entertaining collection of essays. Some are amusing anecdotes, others are deeper, more poignant examinations of life, love and loss and many are a hybrid of both. All are well told and a pleasure to read. Evoking both laughter and tears, these are stories that charm with their richness, insight and humanity. Both deeply personal and universal, there is real resonance in many of these funny, moving and truthful vignettes. From cover to cover this is a thoroughly enjoyable book.
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