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"The cowboys, gold miners, outlaws, gunmen, prostitutes, and marshals who populate the Wild West never see much big-city entertainment. Most towns are too wild and rowdy for entertainers to enter, let alone perform in. All that is about to change. August Beausoleil and his colleague Charles Pomerantz have taken the Beausoleil Brothers Follies to the remote mining towns of Montana, far from the powerful impresarios who own the talent and control the...
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One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of "King Lear." Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded...
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2010
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Unabridged.
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11 audio discs (13 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In January 1932, Ben MacCarthy and his father watch a vagabond variety revue in the Irish countryside. Ben's father is mesmerized by Venetia Kelly, the troupe's headliner, and abandons his family to follow her. His mother sends Ben to go after his father and bring him back.