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Issue contains articles on: Carol Burnett, Cheers & Wings, Madonna, and more. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (19)

Sad & Funny
Carol has the knack of telling a sad story with humor in it.I really enjoyed this book as I have enjoyed her show through the years.

None
Sorry, I haven't had a chance to read the book yet,busy summer !

One More Time
I bought this one to re read after reading its successor that Carol wrote this year.Both are extremely interesting and entertaining for anyone who is a Carol Burnett fan...or Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, or any of the nutty characters that peopled her weekly TV show in the '60s and '70s.We never missed it!This tale is of her growing up years in Hollywood and her functional/dysfunctional family.Given her beginnings it is a miracle she turned out as well as she did!A truly great read.

One of the best memoirs ever published!
I've owned this book for the last 20 plus years or so and up until recently I had read it twice.Upon my third reading I not only got more out of it than ever before but it has left a lasting impression on me this third time around.As you mature with age a lot more of the struggles in life one can understand.And in Carol's story I found myself relating to all of it as I hit the half century mark.

Young Carol grew up right in the heart of downtown Hollywood, an area I've been familiar with all my life yet decades later.Reading about her living with a mother and grandmother who practically hated each other, and in the great detail that Miss Burnett writes, made for a book you could really curl up with.So much of it was touching, like when Carol's mother loses her daughter in her late forties.Underneath all that fighting and screaming, Nanny did love Carol's mother, a valuable lesson we all need to learn.Thanks to Carol I feel all the wiser.

If you want to break into show business, whether it be as an actor or singer, Carol's struggle to pursue her dream is a great inspiration.You get to live what Carol went through as she tried to make a career for herself never knowing if she would make it or not.

In reading about Carol's childhood living in the one room apartment with her grandmother, and her mother and younger sister living down the hall, I "got" Carol's wonderful sense of humor.I found myself laughing out loud just about every few minutes, something I hadn't done before in my previous reads. Since reading the book I've shared one of my favorite stories from the book with friends about the time she and her grandmother would go to the old Thrifty Drug and Discount stores Los Angeles used to have, where they would sit at the counter and have dinner.Carol tells the story of how when nobody was looking Nanny would strategically open her big black purse and in would go forks, knives, spoons and in Carol's words, "Sometimes salt and pepper shakers, too."I laughed for quite a good while.

Humor aside there are the times Carol shares her emotional pain over her two alcoholic parents who never even made it into their fifties.I applaud Miss Burnett for being brave enough to share with us how she hit her own father when she couldn't take his drinking any longer and he had ruined his health for what appeared to be the last time.

Upon this third reading of the book I fell in love with the entire family.I felt their struggles, their pain, and their love for each other, no matter how bad things got.I am surprised this has not been made into a movie and if it ever were I wouldn't be surprised if Miss Burnett could pull it off playing her grandmother.If so, I think there'd be Oscar buzz.

If you're reading this review, Miss Burnett, thank you, thank you for writing it. I know I will be reading it a fourth, fifth and sixth time as times goes on.

Carol Burnett
I really enjoyed the book but I felt that she could have given a little more detail in some areas. I just felt like there could have been more. ... Read more

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Has almost everyone who was a star in 1962, Elvis, Johnny Carson, LOTS more. ... Read more

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Softcover, 40 pages, with information about the musical starring Carol Burnett, with additional articles, including the opening night of "At the Drop of a Hat." ... Read more