Take me home from the Oscars
Subtitle: arthritis, television, fashion, and me : a memoir
By: by Christine Schwab
Publisher: Skyhorse Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781616082642
Subjects: Fashion editors; Rheumatoid arthritis; Image consultants; Television journalists; Patients; Case studies; Health; Treatment; Women journalists; Biography
Description: "Christine Schwab has lived a life of Hollywood and New York glamour most people can only dream about. For twenty years she appeared as a fashion and beauty reporter on the nation's leading television shows...But for most of those years, she was hiding a devastating illness that threatened to take over her entire life...In 'Take Me Home from the Oscars', Schwab tells for the first time her story of living an amazing life in television while suffering from rheumatoid arthritis..."--Dust jacket flap.
Table of contents: title: Nobody walks out of the Academy Awards; title: Sneakers to the rescue; title: Gulping Tylenol; title: No time for derailment; title: Rockin' to the Pointer Sisters; title: Losing control; title: Dealing with fires; title: Pepperoni pizza at Cedars; title: Running at steroid speed; title: Stable until ready; title: Here today, gone tomorrow; title: Oprah, my best friend for a day; title: Rejected for the rat cage; title: Just do it!; title: And the results are in!; title: The robo arm make-over; title: The Enbrel honeymoon; title: "Nightly" and me; title: Double-dipping at UCLA; title: The grown-up girl's osteo race; title: A make-over for arthritis?; title: The future.