Speedbumps
Subtitle: flooring it through Hollywood
By: Teri Garr with Henriette Mantel.
Contributors: Mantel, Henriette.
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Garr, Teri, 1952-; Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography; Multiple sclerosis -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: The popular Oscar-nominated actress muses about movies, men, motherhood, and MS--from the directors she's worked with and admired to the men she's loved; from sipping Cokes with Elvis Presley to hangin' with the Beatles; from her secrets to succeeding in Hollywood without losing her sanity, to dealing with the fear and anxiety of being plagued by mysterious physical problems that eluded diagnosis for twenty years. At thirteen she was touring with a ballet company, at seventeen she was dancing alongside Elvis and Ann-Margret, and by thirty she was one of Hollywood's best loved comic actresses. In 2002 she announced she had multiple sclerosis and became a leading advocate in raising awareness about the disease.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: 1. Here comes the bride; title: 2. Daddy dearest; title: 3. Kwitcher' bitchin'; title: 4. Roll over in your grave, Walt; title: 5. My big breaks; title: 6. Acting on the L.I.E.; title: 7. Feathers and glitter; title: 8. What knockers; title: 9. Shrimp cocktail, here I come; title: 10. One from the heart; title: 11. I know a thing or two; title: 12. The tripping years; title: 13. Something up my butt; title: 14. Grace of my heart; title: 15. With friends like these...; title: 16. Walking on broken glass; title: 17. Ms. Garr goes to Washington; title: 18. Brace yourself; title: 19. Shotgun baby; title: 20. Saved by Molly; title: 21. Elvis has left the building; title: 22. Keep your chins up; title: 23. The little engine that could.