The Story of My Life by Burt Prelutsky

By Burt Prelutsky

Burt Prelutsky, award-winning humor columnist and picture critic for the l. a. instances, has additionally written for the recent York instances, television advisor, glossy adulthood, Emmy, vacation, American movie, and activities Illustrated. He has additionally written episodes of tv exhibits you'll take into account, together with Dragnet, McMillan & spouse, M*A*S*H, Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, The Bob Newhart express, kin Ties, Dr. Quinn, and prognosis homicide. Jean Stapleton, Ed Asner, Keith Carradine, Mare Winningham, Jean Simmons, Jack Warden, Barnard Hughes, Richard Thomas, Sharon Gless, Sylvia Sidney, Harold Gould, and Lillian Gish owe a few of their later successes to Burt.

Not precisely a memoir, his fifty-year and sometimes hilarious profession different notables, nut situations, and celebrated pals, similar to Groucho Marx, Oscar Levant, Billy Wilder, Tiny Tim, Ginger Rogers, Spiro Agnew, Jimmy Stewart, Norman Lear, George Kennedy, Susan Strasberg, Andy Warhol, Jack Palance, Bob desire, Jill St. John, George C. Scott, Dick Van Dyke, George Burns, Farrah Fawcett, Gene Kelly, Jack Webb, Stan Laurel, Dalton Trumbo, Burt Reynolds, Lizabeth Scott, Dana Andrews, William Peter Blatty, Diane Sawyer, George Carlin, Orson Bean, William Saroyan, Carol Burnett and . . . Sonny Tufts!

If you loved his most sensible vendor, Conservatives Are from Mars, Liberals Are from San Francisco, you’ll be entertained through his half-century of encounters, collaborations, and friendships—with the entire dull components left out.

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