Andrea Martin's lady parts
By: by Andrea Martin
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Toronto, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780062387288
Subjects: Second city television (Television program); Comedians; Biography; Motion picture actors and actresses
Other titles: Lady parts
Description: A hilarious, entertaining, and often moving memoir, from the multiple Tony and Emmy-awarding winning actress and comedienne, and SCTV alum, Andrea Martin. Whether lighting up the small screen in her new TV series, Working the Engels, on NBC, or stealing scenes on the big screen in My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, or starring on the stage in her recent Tony award winning role as Berthe in Pippin, Andrea Martin has long entertained audiences with her hilarious characterizations and heartwarming performances. Martin has worked stages, sets and even trapezes across North America, playing to houses packed with adoring fans, all of whom instantly recognize the star who has entertained us for nearly forty years. In Andrea Martin's Lady Parts, Martin, for the first time, shares her fondest remembrances of a life in show business, motherhood, relationships, no relationships, family, chimps in tutus, squirrels, and why she flies to Atlanta to get her hair cut. Martin opens up her heart in a series of eclectic, human, always entertaining and often moving essays. Lady Parts will make you giggle and may make you cry. This is a powerful collection of stories by a woman with a truly storied life.
Table of contents: title: Perky tits; title: It's my roots, Johnny; title: Armenia; title: My one-year diary; title: Afterbirth; title: Birthdays; title: Dating #1; title: Dating #2; title: My mustang convertible; title: Why I fly to Atlanta to get my hair cut; title: Mommy; title: Secrets; title: My writing process; title: Here are some other things I'd rather do than write; title: Someday my prince will come; title: Television vs. books; title: Chimps in tutus; title: My gynecologist; title: You are so beautiful; title: My astrologer; title: Astrology follow-up; title: Old lady parts #1; title: Crazy; title: Some things I think about but don't say out loud; title: Why so angry, Ms. Martin?; title: The graphologist; title: Wherever you go, there you are; title: Parapharyngeal abscess; title: Emergency; title: Multi-tasking; title: Squirrels; title: My pine tree; title: The train; title: My lost youth; title: My first head shots, circa 1970; title: Yes!; title: Old lady parts #2; title: SCTV, or "what do you think of this?"; title: Everything must go.