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Charlie Chaplin grew up in and around the music hall. His parents, aunt and their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage and Chaplin himself started out his career touring music halls with a dance troupe. His experiences of the culture of the music hall were a major influence, shaping his style of acting and the films he made, most famously Limelight, which tells the story of a failing variety performer and which evoked painful memories of his own past. Chaplin was horrified to...

The comedian radio show host and former "Saturday Night Live" cast member reveals himself as a deeply spiritual, devoted family man behind his drug-addled characters, describing the lessons he has learned from fellow celebrities and loved ones.

Cancan! is a comprehensive history of this dance in its social context. The author examines political changes and their effects on the evolution of the dance, the sexual morality of the times, prostitution, the growing emancipation of women toward the end of the nineteenth century, changes in women's fashions, and development in the arts. Illustrated.