Still Foolin' 'Em

2013-09-10 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Billy Crystal
Release : 2013-09-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 232/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Still Foolin' 'Em by : Billy Crystal

Download or read book Still Foolin' 'Em written by Billy Crystal. This book was released on 2013-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilarious and heartfelt observations on aging from one of America's favorite comedians as he turns 65, and a look back at a remarkable career in this New York Times bestseller. Billy Crystal is turning 65, and he's not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that come with growing old, from insomnia to memory loss to leaving dinners with half your meal on your shirt. In humorous chapters like "Buying the Plot" and "Nodding Off," Crystal not only catalogues his physical gripes, but offers a road map to his 77 million fellow baby boomers who are arriving at this milestone age with him. He also looks back at the most powerful and memorable moments of his long and storied life, from entertaining his relatives as a kid in Long Beach, Long Island, his years doing stand-up in the Village, up through his legendary stint at Saturday Night Live, When Harry Met Sally, and his long run as host of the Academy Awards. Readers get a front-row seat to his one-day career with the New York Yankees (he was the first player to ever "test positive for Maalox"), his love affair with Sophia Loren, and his enduring friendships with several of his idols, including Mickey Mantle and Muhammad Ali. He lends a light touch to more serious topics like religion ("the aging friends I know have turned to the Holy Trinity: Advil, bourbon, and Prozac"), grandparenting, and, of course, dentistry. As wise and poignant as they are funny, Crystal's reflections are an unforgettable look at an extraordinary life well lived.

700 Sundays

2006-10-24 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Billy Crystal
Release : 2006-10-24
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 347/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis 700 Sundays by : Billy Crystal

Download or read book 700 Sundays written by Billy Crystal. This book was released on 2006-10-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To support his family, Billy Crystal's father, Jack, worked two jobs, having only one day a week to spend with his family. Based on Crystal's one-man Broadway show of the same name, "700 Sundays"--referring sadly to the time shared by an adoring father and his devoted son--offers a heartfelt, hilarious memoir.

I Must Say

2014-11-04 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Martin Short
Release : 2014-11-04
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 536/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book I Must Say written by Martin Short. This book was released on 2014-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Short’s endearing memoir is, of course, funny, but it’s also a rare thing: the tale of a genuine human being who’s thrived on planet Hollywood.” — Washington Post In this engagingly witty, wise, and heartfelt memoir, Martin Short tells the tale of how a showbiz-obsessed kid from Canada transformed himself into one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen, known to his famous peers as the "comedian's comedian." Short takes the reader on a rich, hilarious, and occasionally heartbreaking ride through his life and times, from his early years in Toronto as a member of the fabled improvisational troupe Second City to the all-American comic big time of Saturday Night Live, and from memorable roles in such movies as ¡Three Amigos! and Father of the Bride to Broadway stardom in Fame Becomes Me and the Tony-winning Little Me. He reveals how he created his most indelible comedic characters, among them the manic man-child Ed Grimley, the slimy corporate lawyer Nathan Thurm, and the bizarrely insensitive interviewer Jiminy Glick. Throughout, Short freely shares the spotlight with friends, colleagues, and collaborators, among them Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, Gilda Radner, Mel Brooks, Nora Ephron, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Paul Shaffer, and David Letterman. But there is another side to Short's life that he has long kept private. He lost his eldest brother and both parents by the time he turned twenty, and, more recently, he lost his wife of thirty years to cancer. In I Must Say, Short talks for the first time about the pain that these losses inflicted and the upbeat life philosophy that has kept him resilient and carried him through. In the grand tradition of comedy legends, Martin Short offers a show-business memoir densely populated with boldface names and rife with retellable tales: a hugely entertaining yet surprisingly moving self-portrait that will keep you laughing—and crying—from the first page to the last.

A Good Dude

2011-09-01 Fiction

Author : Keith Thomas Walker
Release : 2011-09-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 042/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Good Dude written by Keith Thomas Walker. This book was released on 2011-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candace should've listened to her father. He warned her about gangster rappers and forbade her to go to Rilla's concert, but his strong guidance only fueled her defiance. Candace sneaked to the show anyway, and, at seventeen, she got the thrill of her life when Rilla invited her onstage for a special serenade. Candace gave herself to him that night and turned her back on everyone she knew when Rilla asked her to run away with him. Six months later Candace finds herself in Overbrook Meadows, Texas; a world away from the beautiful home and family she left behind in New York. Rilla has been dropped from his record label, and he's a fulltime dope man now. Candace's stomach is getting bigger, and she can't say for sure who the baby's father is. She thinks things are as bad as they can get, but she's wrong about that. Candace has not yet experienced the real pain her new life has in store.

Victoria's Got a Secret

2011-03 Fiction

Author : HelenKay Dimon
Release : 2011-03
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 577/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Victoria's Got a Secret by : HelenKay Dimon

Download or read book Victoria's Got a Secret written by HelenKay Dimon. This book was released on 2011-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in a family of artists and intellectuals, the young Victoria-to-be was a bookworm who excelled in schoolas well as in the tutorials of her exotic grandmother who felt she should know how to hold court in a salon. The young Victoria's real education, however, was a lesson in love, shared with a down-on-his-luck high school classmate named Paul who gave his heart, body, and soul to heronly to be devastated when her dreams and ambitions propelled her from a small Canadian town into the bright lights of big cities, where she climbed the corporate ladder and fell under the influence of an older, powerful man--But when fate brings Paul back into her life, will he recognize the girl she once was? Will she? Can this handsome athlete with a musical gift make her heart sing as if she were an innocent teen once more? And if she breaks all the rules in this double life she's leading, can Victoria keep the profession she's come to love without sacrificing the storybook ending she longs for?

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