Gilda radner autobiography
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It's Always Something
It’s Always Something Introduction
I started out to write a book called A Portrait of the Artist as a Housewife. I wanted to write a collection of stories, poems, and vignettes about things like my toaster oven and my relationships with plumbers, mailmen and delivery people. But life dealt me a much more complicated story. On October 21, , I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well. I was fighting for my life against cancer, a more lethal foe than even the interior decorator. The book has turned out a bit differently from what I had intended. It’s a book about illness, doctors and hospitals; about friends and family; about beliefs and hopes. It’s about my life, especially about the last two years. And I hope it will help others who live in the world of medication and uncertainty.
These are my experiences, of course, and they may not necessarily be what happens to other cancer patients. All the medical explanations in the book are my own, as I understand them. Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I’m a comedienne, and even cancer couldn’t stop me from seeing humor in what I went through. So I’m sharing with you what I call a seriously funny book, one that confirms my father’s favorite
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Gilda Radner
American actress and comic (–)
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“I’m going to write a book about my life with cancer” exclaims Gilda Radner, “with the emphasis on life!” If only the makers of this biopic had followed her lead. Though it uses the recording of the autobiography’s audio version as a framing device, the film devotes much of its running time to this funny lady’s sad death.
Raised in a loving Jewish family in Detroit, the overweight teenage Radner learns to disarm her tormentors at school through comedy. Flash forward 14 years, and a now skinny Radner is performing in Toronto with Second City. Shortly thereafter, along with fellow troupe members Bill Murray, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, she returns to the U.S. to star in a new television show, 'Saturday Night Live'.
Here follows some of this biopic’s best and yet most awkward scenes, for despite pitch perfect impersonations of the SNL crew, the faithful recreation of the show’s sketches don’t date well, regardless of how many shots we see of guffawing audiences. Equally encumbered by their material are Jami Gertz as Gilda Radner and Tom Rooney as Gene Wilder. Both turn in fine performances but are unable to overcome lacklustre direction and a script that mires itself in Radner’s ne