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5 unusual facts about City Lights


City Lights: Country Favorites

It included Smith's covers of Petula Clark's "Downtown" and Anita Bryant's "Paper Roses," as well as a single by Smith, "Burning a Hole in My Mind."

Mr Puntila and his Man Matti

The central relationship between Mr Puntila and Matti—in which Puntila is warm, friendly and loving when drunk, but cold, cynical and penny-pinching when sober—echoes the relationship between the Tramp and the Millionaire in Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931).

Planet News

Planet News is a book of poetry written by Allen Ginsberg and published by City Lights.

Sari Maritza

She entered films in 1930 and gained some notoriety for dancing a tango with Charles Chaplin at the premiere for his film City Lights in 1931.

Uyarndha Ullam

The character of drunken Kamal and Radharavi is inspired by the movie "City Lights", where Charlie Chaplin, the tramp, is befriended by the Harry Myers while he is drunk and does not recognize him when he gets out of the hangover.


Charlie Chaplin: Intimate Close-Ups

The book primarily chronicles Hale's love/hate relationship with Chaplin, from her initial infatuation with him as a child through her being chosen to co-star with him in Gold Rush, and entering into romance despite him being married to Lita Grey, to her temporary casting in City Lights as a replacement for the fired Virginia Cherrill, through to both hers and Chaplin's senior years.

Jeff Pope

Among Pope's television writing credits are Fool's Gold: The Story of the Brink's-Mat Robbery (1992), The Place Of The Dead (1997), Essex Boys (2000), Bob Martin (2000), Dirty Filthy Love (2004), Christmas Lights (2004), Pierrepoint (2005), Northern Lights (2006), City Lights (2007), and The Fattest Man in Britain (2009).

Lisa Jarnot

Joie De Vivre: Selected Poems: 1992-2012 was published by City Lights in May 2013.

Media in Glasgow

Television programmes set in Glasgow include: Taggart, Rebus (set in Edinburgh but shot mostly in Glasgow), High Times, Rab C Nesbitt, City Lights, Chewing the Fat, River City, and Still Game.

Semezdin Mehmedinović

In 2002, Mehmedinović published another book of poems entitled "Devet Alexandrija", which was later published by the City Lights of San Francisco under the title "Nine Alexandrias".

Stefan Brecht

A collection of poems, self-published in 1976, was picked up by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights and appeared in their City Lights Pocket Poets Series in 1977 as Stefan Brecht: Poems.


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Better Books

Better Books had a string of influential managers including Bill Butler, Bob Cobbing and Barry Miles, who set about ordering a large quantity of books from City Lights and Grove Press.

David Paul West

Other stage work includes Axel in Woody Allen's play Don’t Drink The Water, David in Matt Ian Kelly's However Do You Want Me at the Hen and Chickens (City Lights Theatre Company, 2004), and Kevin in You Couldn't Make It Up at the Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh and the New End Theatre, Hampstead.

Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the owner of City Lights Publishers, was one of the first to recognize Bukowski as a short-story writer.

Ira Silverberg

This firm has attracted clients like The Academy of American Poets, William S. Burroughs, the estate of David Wojnarowicz, Dennis Cooper, City Lights Publications, and Re/Search Publications.

Nagwa Fouad

He convinced her to perform live at the most prestigious music and dance show in the 1960s called Adwa El Madina (City Lights) which had featured such superstars as Shadia, Abdel Halim Hafez, Fayza Ahmed, and Sabah.

PM Entertainment

In 1986 Joseph Toufik Merhi an indie film director and producer founded the production company City Lights with producer Ronald L. Gilchrist for his first movie Hollywood In Trouble.

Python Lee Jackson

Python Lee Jackson released a cover of Major Lance’s "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um" c/w "Big City Lights" in December 1966 before Hardy was replaced by Duncan McGuire from Doug Parkinson's The Questions for three weeks.

Rachel David

While a student there, Rachel hosted a Vancouver community show called City Lights with Novus Entertainment, and was an on-air announcer with CFML-FM 107.9 The Evolution - the campus radio station of the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

Shig Murao

After his separation from City Lights, he held court in the Caffe Trieste and published a photocopied zine called Shig's Review.

The Yage Letters

In April 2006, City Lights Books published Yage Letters Redux, a new edition of the book edited by Oliver Harris (who has previously edited other collections of correspondence by Burroughs).