Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood

ISBN: 0452285712

Author: Garr, Teri

Condition: New

In this laugh-out-loud funny and inspiring autobiography, one of Hollywoods best-loved comediennes muses about movies, men, motherhood, and MSIn 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 Garrs trademark humor, are honest, heartfelt, and often profound. BACKCOVER: The driven comedian tells (almost) all[and] shes as dizzily funny as ever.-Entertainment WeeklyGarr sticks to the truth whether its hysterically funny, or, at times, heart wrenching. Read this book, its a lesson in courage.-Mel Brooks