Product Description: Jeffrey Jacobi, a Juilliard-trained voice coach, shows how anyone can gain a competitive edge by fully utilizing his or her natural speaking qualities. This book will guide readers step by step through self- tests, exercises, and sample speeches that will help them to develop a strong, clear, authoritative voice that projects an aura of power, confidence, and persuasiveness; overcome common speech problems like poor enunciation, rapid-fire speech, monotonous delivery, and a nervous, shaky sound; diminish accents; and eliminate other distracting and self-defeating speech problems that can often determine success or failure in business...read more

Product Description: Friends over the years, Tony Randall and Michael Mindlin traded jokes, anecdotes and remembrances. continually one-upping each other with tales of show business. Gathered together in this wonderfully entertaining collection is the best of these - beginning with Randall's arrival in New York as a stage struck newcomer, his early bit parts, stage and screen stardom, and his most memorable roles as Mr...read more

Product Description: Leonard Warren was the great American baritone of the middle of the 20th century, and experienced opera journalist Mary Jane Phillips-Matz has prepared a detailed account of his operatic life, down to a careful recounting of Warren’s last hours and minutes before he died on stage at the Met during a performance of La forza del destino...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)