The Comedy Writer
10 best books like The Comedy Writer (Peter Farrelly): The Emerald Burrito of Oz, The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century, Cloris: My Autobiography, Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler: Celluloid Tirades and Escapades, Sex and Sunsets, Natalie Wood, I Love Her, That's Why!: An Autobiography, Drunkard: A Hard-Drinking Life, I Love You More Than You Know, When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win: Reflections on Looking in the Mirror
The Emerald Burrito of Oz
| Author | John Skipp |
| ISBN | 1930235178 |
Oz is real, the gateway is located near Salina, Kansas, and it's something of a tourist destination. Gene leaves LA for a vacation in Oz and stumbles into an impending war between the forces of good and The Hollow Man. Will he get back to LA alive?
The Emerald Burrito of Oz, while a bizarro book,...
| Author | Margaret Talbot |
| ISBN | 1594487065 |
Using the life and career of her father, an early Hollywood actor, New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot tells the thrilling story of the rise of popular culture through a transfixing personal lens. The arc of Lyle Talbot’s career is in fact the story of American entertainment. Born in 1902, Lyle left...
| Author | Cloris Leachman |
| ISBN | 0758229631 |
Welp, I was sadly disappointed in this book. Cloris would have been well-served to work with an actual biographer, rather than winging it with some help from her ex-husband. The book comes off scattered and self-indulgent, and it's a damn shame, because you KNOW this woman is an amazing talent who's...
| Author | Joe Queenan |
| ISBN | 0786884649 |
Joe Queenan in the Studio with DJ Ian:
DJ Ian: Joe, you get away with a lot of shit in your Hollywood articles.
Joe Queenan: Hey, but that’s just me. A courageous, starry-eyed boy.
DJ Ian: I like the way you try to replicate the movies in real life.
Joe Queenan: Yeah,...
| Author | Tim Sandlin |
| ISBN | 1573226289 |
Meet Kelly Palamino, a successful dishwasher and failed husband described by People as "the Lone Ranger in love, riding out the rough patches on a Thorazine habit." When Kelly's wife leaves him for his best friend, he becomes color-blind and left-handed, and his toilet starts to talk. But Kelly really...
| Author | Gavin Lambert |
| ISBN | 0375410740 |
She spent her life in the movies. Her childhood is still there to see in "Miracle on 34th Street. "Her adolescence in "Rebel Without a Cause. "Her coming of age? Still playing in "Splendor in the Grass "and "West Side Story" and countless other hit movies. From the moment Natalie Wood made her debut in 1946,...
I Love Her, That's Why!: An Autobiography
I Love Her, That's Why!, first published in 1955, is an entertaining look at the life and career (to 1955) of comedian George Burns and his wife Gracie Allen. From humble beginnings in New York, Burns and Allen went on to become much-loved stars of stage, radio, television, and the big-screen, one of the...
| Author | Neil Steinberg |
| ISBN | 0525950656 |
An extraordinarily honest memoir about the life of a functioning alcoholic and the realities of recovery from a veteran columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times
Neil Steinberg loves his wife. He loves his two young sons. He loves his job and his ramshackle old farmhouse in the suburbs. But he also...
Jonathan Ames has drawn comparisons across the literary spectrum, from David Sedaris to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Woody Allen to P.G. Wodehouse, and his books, as well as his abilities as a performer, have made him a favorite on the Late Show with David Letterman. Whether he's chasing deranged cockroaches...
When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win: Reflections on Looking in the Mirror
| Author | Carol Leifer |
| ISBN | 0345502965 |
Stand-up comic and comedy writer Carol Leifer faced a critical dilemma and had only two options: either continue sharing her greatest childhood memory (seeing the Beatles at Shea Stadium in 1966) or lie about her age. But the choice soon became clear: “I see now that when you deny your age, you deny...
| Author | Gish Jen |
| ISBN | 0375705929 |
The stories in Who's Irish? show us the children of immigrants looking wonderingly at their parents' efforts to assimilate, while the older generation asks how so much selfless hard work on their part can have yielded them offspring who'd sooner drop out of life than succeed at it.
With dazzling...
| Author | Richard Pérez |
| ISBN | 0971341559 |
WHAT IS LOVE? In the game of love, there are winners and losers.
In 'THE LOSERS' CLUB', Richard Perez tries to answer the eternal question.
Set in downtown New York City, 'THE LOSERS' CLUB' tells the story of Martin Sierra, an unlucky writer addicted to the personals.
His journey...
| Author | Merrill Markoe |
| ISBN | 0812967240 |
It’s My F---ing Birthday unfolds in seven state-of-my-life addresses a hapless high school art teacher writes to herself on consecutive birthdays. Through outrageously funny years of needling parents, self-absorbed boy-friends, riots, O.J., and Monica, she navigates a circuitous (and ultimately...
The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade
| Author | Joseph E. Stiglitz |
| ISBN | 0393326187 |
With his best-selling Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz showed how a misplaced faith in free-market ideology led to many of the recent problems suffered by the developing nations. Here he turns the same light on the United States.
The Roaring Nineties offers not only...
| Author | Rich Hall |
| ISBN | 0349115109 |
Rich Hall plumps up the cushions, sets out a few drinks and invites us into his world. He describes his idyllic childhood in Eastern Tennessee, helping to operate his grandfolks' backyard nuclear plant. He explains how he sold his soul to the Devil to make him a better bluesman, and how the Devil tried...
| Author | James Hynes |
| ISBN | 0312319665 |
"Immensely witty...thoroughly entertaining."--The Washington Post Book World
Paul Trilby is having a bad day. If he were to be honest with himself, Paul Trilby would have to admit that he's having a bad life. His wife left him. Three subsequent girlfriends left him. He's fallen from a top-notch...
| Author | Peter Harry Brown |
| ISBN | 0306813920 |
Howard Hughes was one of the most amazing, intriguing, and controversial figures of the twentieth century. He was the billionaire head of a giant corporation, a genius inventor, an ace pilot, a matinee-idol-handsome playboy, a major movie maker who bedded a long list of Hollywood glamour queens,...
Los Angeles, 1929: a glittering metropolis on the crest of an epic crash. A mysterious prophetess and her alluring daughter have relieved an oil tycoon's nephew of his fortune. But the kid won't talk. To find the money, the old man calls on a trusted executive, Raymond Chandler, who in turn enlists the...
