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Encyclopedia > Slapstick of Another Kind (film)
Slapstick of Another Kind
Directed by Steven Paul
Written by Steven Paul
Kurt Vonnegut Novel
Starring Jerry Lewis
Madeline Kahn
Runtime 82 min.
Language English
IMDb Page

Slapstick of Another Kind is a 1984 film based on the novel called Slapstick or Lonesome No More written by Kurt Vonnegut. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ... Jerry Lewis Joseph Levitch (born March 16, 1926), better known as Jerry Lewis, is a Jewish American comedian, actor, producer, and director, known for his slapstick humor and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. ... Madeline Kahn Madeline Kahn (September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress of movie, television, and theater. ... This page is about the year 1984. ... Slapstick, or Lonesome No More is a science fiction novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut. ... Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ...



Works of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Novels:
Player Piano | The Sirens of Titan | Mother Night | Cat's Cradle
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye, Blue Monday
Slapstick or Lonesome No More
Jailbird | Deadeye Dick | Galápagos
Bluebeard | Hocus Pocus | Timequake Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ... Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ... The player piano is a type of piano that plays music without the need for a human pianist to depress the normal keys or pedals. ... The Sirens of Titan (1959) is a science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Mother Night is a novel first published in 1961 and written by the American author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ... Cats Cradle (ISBN 038533348X) is a 1963 science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ... God Bless You, Mr. ... Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Childrens Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death is a 1969 novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. ... Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. ... Slapstick, or Lonesome No More is a science fiction novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut. ... Jailbird is Kurt Vonneguts 1979 fictional novel about a man recently released from a low security prison. ... Deadeye Dick is a 1982 novel by Kurt Vonnegut. ... The novel Galápagos is Kurt Vonneguts look at evolution, first published in 1985. ... Kurt Vonneguts Bluebeard was written in 1988 and describes the late years of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian, who first appeared, rather briefly, in Breakfast of Champions. ... Hocus Pocus is a 1990 novel by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Timequake is a semi-autobiographical work by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ...


Short story collections:
Canary in a Cathouse | Welcome to the Monkey House | Bagombo Snuff Box Canary in a Cathouse is a collection of twelve short stories by Kurt Vonnegut published in 1961. ... Welcome to the Monkey House is an assortment of short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Bagombo Snuff Box is an assortment of short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut. ...

Collected essays:
Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons | Palm Sunday, An Autobiographical Collage | Fates Worse than Death, An Autobiographical Collage | God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian | A Man Without a Country Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) is a collection of essays, reviews, short travel accounts, and human interest stories written by Kurt Vonnegut from c. ... Palm Sunday is a 1981 collection of short stories, speeches, essays, letters, and other previously unpublished works by author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ... Fates Worse than Death subtitled An Autobiographical Collage, is a 1990 collection of essays, speeches, and other previously uncollected writings by author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ... God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, by Kurt Vonnegut, is a collection of short interviews written by Vonnegut and first broadcast on NPR. The text of these interviews makes up the content of . ... A Man Without a Country is a collection of essays published in 2005 by the author Kurt Vonnegut. ...


Plays:
Happy Birthday, Wanda June | Between Time and Timbuktu, or Prometheus Five (adapted by others from Vonnegut's words; introduction by Vonnegut) | Make Up Your Mind | Miss Temptation | L'Histoire du Soldat Happy Birthday, Wanda June is the 1971 film adaptation of the play by the same name by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Between Time and Timbuktu is a television adaptation of Kurt Vonneguts science fiction novels and stories, and the title of a book containing the script of the broadcast. ... Histoire du soldat (sometimes written Lhistoire du soldat; translated as The Soldiers Tale or A Soldiers Tale) is a 1918 theatrical work to be read, played, and danced (lue, jouée et dansée) set to music by Igor Stravinsky. ...


Film adaptations:
Happy Birthday, Wanda June | Slaughterhouse-Five (film) | Slapstick of Another Kind (film) | Who Am I This Time? | Harrison Bergeron | Mother Night (film) | Breakfast of Champions (film) Happy Birthday, Wanda June is the 1971 film adaptation of the play by the same name by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Slaughterhouse-Five is a film adaptation of the Kurt Vonnegut novel of the same name. ... Who Am I This Time? is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut in the 1950s. ... The dystopian short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, opens with the line Spoiler warning: Unfortunately, this equality has been achieved by handicapping the most intelligent, athletic or beautiful members of society down to the level of the lowest common denominator, a process central to the society which is overseen... Mother Night is a 1996 film based on the book by Kurt Vonnegut of the same name. ... Breakfast of Champions is a 1999 film adapted from the novel of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut. ...


  Results from FactBites:
 
Slapstick (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (353 words)
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More is a 1976 science fiction novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut.
The book was adapted into the 1984 film Slapstick of Another Kind.
It is concerned with the life story of Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain.
'Slaughterhouse Five: The Novel and the Movie (3056 words)
Another mainstay is his use of historical and fictional sources, and yet another is his preference for description over dialogue.
The film opens with a scene that is not directly in the novel in which an older Billy types a letter to the editor of the local paper explaining what he is experiencing.
One instance of the film succeeding in adapting a transition from the novel into an original filmic transition occurs as Billy is having his picture taken while a prisoner of war.
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