Carl Reiner
Author
Series
Complete 2000 year old man volume 4
Publisher
Rhino Records
Pub. Date
p1994
Language
English
10) NNNNN: a novel
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Language
English
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Description
When Nat Noland, a successful romance novelist, has heated debates with himself, his wife Glennie signs him up with Dr. Frucht, a Viennese psychiatrist. Nat, who was adopted, learns about his dancer mother, doctor father and his maternal grandfather.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Description
More than once, friends of Carl Reiner said, "You ought to write those things down." And at the age of eighty, Carl finally did. In this funny and engaging memoir, Reiner recounts his show business life in short comic takes. After answering an ad for free acting classes, he forsook a budding vocation as a machinist for an acting career. Reiner recalls the highlights of the succeeding decades: his first sweaty audition - impersonating a dog impersonating...
13) Just so stories
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Language
English
Description
A collection of the well-known stories, including "How the Whale Got His Throat," "The Elephant's Child, " and "The Butterfly That Stamped." Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of "How the Camel Got His Hump," "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," "How the Armadillo Happened," and other animals How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to...
Author
Language
English
Description
While Hank Morgan, Twain's time-displaced Yankee traveller, keeps up a steady stream of flippancies, founding the first tabloid, the Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano, and organizing a game of baseball between armour-clad knights, he also keeps up a steady commentary on the social mores of King Arthur's court, criticizing the hereditary social classes and state church still strong in the Victorian England of Twain's own day, and championing...
Author
Publisher
Phoenix Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Romance novelist, Nat Noland, is suffering from writer's block when he makes up a silly email address sending a list to God of ideas for punishments. When God replies, Nat, a die hard atheist is shocked. Now, Nat keeps getting messages from God and he's having a very hard time concentrating on his new novel.
Author
Language
English
Description
In his semi-autobiographical, laugh-out-loud novel, Carl Reiner details a young man's frustrations as he works as a machinist's helper and tries to break into show business. Along the bumpy path, the aspiring young actor tries to extricate himself from his overly protective parents and his two girlfriends, and eventually lands an acting gig with a small theater troupe. Human, funny and relatable, Enter Laughing is a warm tale of a young man with love...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"On the road to womanhood in the '70's, Vivian ... is encountering two big bumps: her strangely nomadic family--always on the move, yet desperate to stay in the Beverly Hills school district--and her blossoming sexuality. Add Viv's vivacious cousin ... to the mix, and you've got an explosive coming-of-age story that proves you don't have to be rich to have first-class fun"--Verso of container.