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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
1 Manhattan, Kansas: Setting the Stage
2 Dr. Dracula, Dianetics, and Death
3 On the Road with the Barter Theatre
4 Learning the Rules with the St. Louis Compass
5 Broadway, Beatniks, and The Doors of Perception
6 The Second City and the Spider King
7 Stongehenge and a Skate Through the Sewers
8 The Merry Pranksters and My Mother the Car
9 Paying the Karmic Debt: With the Committee in San Francisco
10 The Birth of Harold, Spidering, and a Pornographic Western
11 Pretty Much a Blur
12 Second City Redux: Belushi and the Bean Can
13 Valium, Vitriol, and Ancient Egyptian Opium
14 The Clockwork Orange Treatment
15 “Junkies Give the Best Shots”
16 Saturday Night Live, Tennessee Williams, and the Cleanup
17 The ImprovOlympic
18 Roaches in the Dental Floss
19 The Return of the Harold, the Baron’s Barracudas, and Charna
20 The Brain of the Galaxy
21 Chris Farley, The Blob, and Farewell to Second City
22 Workshops, Reunions, and the Family
23 “Close, You’ve Gone Sane!”
24 The Party
25 Curtain Call
Bibliography
Notes
Interviews
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Works of Del Close
Index
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