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Product Description: When the cameras are off, he takes the stage. Television shows like Friends, Full House, and Growing Pains might take only 20 minutes to air, but tapings frequently last several hours. From the 1970s to the early 2000s, Robert Perlow was the go-to warmup comedian on television sets, where he was responsible for keeping the live studio audience engaged and laughing...read more

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9781455621507 | Pelican Pub Co Inc, February 12, 2016, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: When the cameras are off, he takes the stage.

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By Nic Sheff (foreword by)

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9781942600053 | 20 anv edition (Rare Bird Books, October 20, 2015), cover price $24.95

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Product Description: (Applause Books). Rita Lakin was a pioneer a female scriptwriter in the early 1960s when Hollywood television was exclusively male. For years, in creative meetings she was literally "the only woman in the room." In this breezy but heartfelt remembrance, Lakin takes readers to a long-forgotten time when women were not considered worthy or welcome at the creative table...read more

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9781495014055 | Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, September 1, 2015, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: (Applause Books).

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Product Description: “Damn, this book is good.”—Jon StewartEmmy Award–winning writer Adam Resnick began his career at Late Night with David Letterman before honing his chops in movies and cable television, including HBO’s The Larry Sanders Show...read more

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9780399160387 | Blue Rider Pr, May 1, 2014, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Adam Resnick, an Emmy Award-winning writer for NBC’s Late Night with David Letterman, has spent his entire life trying to avoid interaction with people.

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9780147516213 | Reprint edition (Plume, July 28, 2015), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: “Damn, this book is good.

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9781613741047 | Chicago Review Pr, August 1, 2014, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: Marion Grodin, daughter of funnyman Charles Grodin, knows firsthand that laughter is truly the best medicine, having not only survived breast cancer and divorce, but also, various addictions-including an inappropriate relationship with Haagen Dazs...read more

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9781455510139 | Center st, November 5, 2013, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Marion Grodin, daughter of funnyman Charles Grodin, knows firsthand that laughter is truly the best medicine, having not only survived breast cancer and divorce, but also, various addictions-including an inappropriate relationship with Haagen Dazs.

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Product Description: Praise for THE YOUNG AND RESTLESS LIFE OF WILLIAM J. BELL "A beautiful dedication to Bill and the pioneering legacy of the Bell family. Their endless commitment, passion, and creativity have left an indelible mark on the genre."-Frank Valentini, executive producer of General Hospital and Emmy-winning director of One Life to Live "Reading this book is like rolling in the arms of soap opera's greatest lover...read more

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9781402272110 | Sourcebooks Inc, June 1, 2012, cover price $24.99

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9781402280672 | Sourcebooks Inc, May 7, 2013, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Praise for THE YOUNG AND RESTLESS LIFE OF WILLIAM J.

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Product Description: The crash and burn of a helicopter mom! Soap writer Dena Higley was all things to all people. A wife, mother of four, and head writer for Days of Our Lives, Dena ably hovered over the numerous people and responsibilities in her life, eager to right every wrong and fulfill every need...read more
By Dena Higley and Amy Rubinate (narrator)

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9781609814861 | Unabridged edition (Oasis Audio, May 8, 2012), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: The crash and burn of a helicopter mom!

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9780849947360 | Thomas Nelson Inc, May 1, 2012, cover price $15.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9781613751312 | Unabridged edition (Oasis Audio, May 8, 2012), cover price $19.99

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Product Description: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor has never been one to take the conventional route. Whether financing a move to L.A. with only a best friend’s bat mitzvah savings, accidentally free-basing cocaine, or disproving her mother’s "cars aren’t free" refrain by winning one on Hollywood Squares, Stefanie is living proof that the unlikely can happen—usually to her...read more

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9781416954149 | Simon & Schuster, July 7, 2009, cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor has never been one to take the easy, conventional route.

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9781439187098, titled "It's Not Me, It's You: Subjective Recollections from a Terminally Optimistic, Chronically Sarcastic, and Occasionally Inebriated Woman" | Reprint edition (Gallery Books, September 14, 2010), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor has never been one to take the conventional route.

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A personal, humor-tinged account by a man who was suddenly rendered a paraplegic by the rare condition transverse myelitis describes how his abruptly changed circumstances forced him to reevaluate his life and the larger questions of human existence. Reprint.

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9780060825287 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, January 1, 2007), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 'Like the day Elvis died, the day you wake up paralyzed is not a day you soon forget.

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9780060825294 | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 1, 2008), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A personal, humor-tinged account by a man who was suddenly rendered a paraplegic by the rare condition transverse myelitis describes how his abruptly changed circumstances forced him to reevaluate his life and the larger questions of human existence.

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