Still foolin' 'em
Subtitle: where I've been, where I'm going, and where the hell are my keys?
By: Billy Crystal
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780805098204; 9780805098235
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Aging; Comedians; Biography; Entertainment & Performing Arts
Other titles: Still fooling them
Description: "Billy Crystal is turning 65, and he's not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that come with growing old, from insomnia to memory loss to leaving dinners with half your meal on your shirt. In humorous chapters like "Buying the Plot" and "Nodding Off," Crystal not only catalogues his physical gripes, but offers a road map to his 77 million fellow baby boomers who are arriving at this milestone age with him. He also looks back at the most powerful and memorable moments of his long and storied life, from entertaining his relatives as a kid in Long Beach, Long Island, his years doing stand-up in the Village, up through his legendary stint at Saturday Night Live, When Harry Met Sally, and his long run as host of the Academy Awards. Readers get a front-row seat to his one-day career with the New York Yankees (he was the first player to ever "test positive for Maalox"), his love affair with Sophia Loren, and his enduring friendships with several of his idols, including Mickey Mantle and Muhammad Ali. He lends a light touch to more serious topics like religion ("the aging friends I know have turned to the Holy Trinity: Advil, bourbon, and Prozac"), grandparenting, and, of course, dentistry. As wise and poignant as they are funny, Crystal's reflections are an unforgettable look at an extraordinary life well lived"--
Table of contents: title: 65 is not 60; title: I worry; title: Sex; title: Growing up Crystal; title: Count to ten; title: My twenties; title: The elbow; title: Take care of your teeth; title: My thirties; title: The five stages of forgetting things; title: Conservative; title: Iron balls : my forties; title: Kiss me twice; title: Still foolin' 'em; title: My fifties; title: Grandpa; title: Celebrate your birthdays; title: Let him go; title: Can't take it with you; title: Buying the plot.