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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-101594630070

ISBN-139781594630071

eBay Product ID (ePID)46586293

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Book TitleSpeedbumps : Flooring It Through Hollywood

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicParenting / General, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts

Publication Year2005

IllustratorYes

GenreFamily & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorTeri Garr

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight19.1 Oz

Item Length3.6 in

Item Width6.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-014758

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromNinth Grade

Dewey Decimal791.4302/8/092 B

Grade ToUP

SynopsisThe popular Oscar-nominated actress muses about movies, men, motherhood, and MS in a book that is both Hollywood hilarious and personally moving From Speedbumps- "I was originally up for the principal female role in Young Frankenstein . Mel Brooks was directing. He had just finished Blazing Saddles , and was at the top of the comedy world. Mel had picked me out of five hundred girls, but admitted that he was still trying to convince Madeline Kahn to take the lead role. After I auditioned three times, Madeline finally did decide to take the part of the fiancie. I was crushed. I d never come so close to getting a major part in a major movie. But then Mel told me that if I came back the next day with a German accent I could read for the part of Inga, Gene Wilder s buxom lab assistant. A German accent in twenty-four hours?, In this laugh-out-loud funny and inspiring autobiography, one of Hollywood s best-loved comediennes muses about movies, men, motherhood, and MS In a book that is at once Hollywood hilarious and personally moving, Teri Garr, star of such classic films as"Young Frankenstein, Oh God , Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mr. Mom," and"Tootsie," for which she received an Academy Award nomination, writes about her life with the same wit and warmth that have won the hearts of fans for over three decades.From sipping Cokes with Elvis Presley to hangin with the Beatles; from her secrets to succeeding in Hollywood without losing her sanity, to dealing with the fear, anxiety, and denial of being plagued by mysterious physical problems that eluded diagnosis for over twenty years the insights in"Speedbumps," while always couched in Garr s trademark humor, are honest, heartfelt, and often profound. BACKCOVER: The driven comedian tells (almost) all and] she s as dizzily funny as ever. "Entertainment Weekly" Garr sticks to the truth whether it s hysterically funny, or, at times, heart wrenching. Read this book, it s a lesson in courage. Mel Brooks", At once laugh-out-loud funny and remarkably down to earth, the popular Oscar-nominated actress muses about movies, men, motherhood, and MS in a book that is both Hollywood hilarious and personally moving. 16-page photo insert., "At once laugh-out-loud funny and remarkably down-to-earth, the popular Oscar- nominated actress muses about movies, men, motherhood, and MS in a book that is both Hollywood hilarious and personally moving" From "Speedbumps: " "I was originally up for the principal female role in "Young Frankenstein," Mel Brooks was directing. He had just finished "Blazing Saddles," and was at the top of the comedy world. Mel had picked me out of five hundred girls, but admitted that he was still trying to convince Madeline Kahn to take the lead role. After I auditioned three times, Madeline finally did decide to take the part of the fiance. I was crushed. Id never come so close to getting a major part in a major movie. But then Mel told me that if I came back the next day with a German accent I could read for the part of Inga, Gene Wilders buxom lab assistant. A German accent in twenty-four hours? Luckily, I was still on "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour," and, as fate would have it, Chers wig stylist was German. So, I sat in on Chers hairstyling session (that gave me hours of study!) and emerged with a perfect German accent when saying, Mein Gott, zis vig veighs forty pounds. That would translate to the script! There was one last thing I needed for Inga. Or two, actually. I realized Ingas part was really all about the boobs, so the next day I went in to the audition wearing a bra stuffed with socks. People pay over five thousand dollars for a boob job today. Mine cost under five dollars at Woolworths, and got me the part, my biggest to date. I was thrilled. Id been chosen by one of the best. My career was finally in motion. I got to thinking that I should have stuffed mybra with socks for every audition." In "The New Yorker," the late, great film critic Pauline Kael called Garr, "the funniest neurotic dizzy dame

LC Classification NumberPN2287.G3875A3 2005

As told toMantel, Henriette

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