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Speedbumps: Flooring it Through Hollywood
By Teri Garr, with Henriette Mantel.Published 2005.
Published by Hudson Street Press.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 1594630070
ISBN-13: 978-1594630071
Published by Hudson Street Press.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 1594630070
ISBN-13: 978-1594630071
Description:
In her laugh-out-loud
funny and inspiring autobiography, Teri Garr, one of Hollywood’s best-loved
comediennes, 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 on Good Friday to hangin’ with the Beatles; from her secrets to
succeeding in Hollywood without losing her sanity, to dealing with the fear, anxiety,
and denial of being plagues by mysterious physical problems that eluded
diagnosis for over twenty years – the insights in Speedbumps, while
always couched in Garr’s trademark humor, are honest, heartfelt, and often
profound.
Since she was eight
years old, little Terry Ann Garr was a natural performer, staging elaborate
productions for the neighborhood in her family’s garage, captivating her
teachers, and easing the tensions between her alcoholic, gambling vaudevillian
father and her hard-working Rockette mother with her natural charm and wit. By
the age of thirteen – two years after her father’s premature death catalyzed
her to “get serious” about becoming a dancer – she was touring with a San
Franscisco ballet company; at seventeen, she was swiveling her hips alongside
Elvis and Ann-Margret in Viva Las Vegas.
By the time she was
thirty, Teri had become known as one of Hollywood's best-loved comic actresses,
starring in such classic films as Young Frankenstein; Oh, God!; Close
Encounters of the Third Kind; and Mr. Mom; and receiving an Academy
Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance alongside
Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie.
In October 2002, Teri
announced on national television that she had multiple sclerosis, making
headlines across the country. Since then, she has become a leading advocate in
raising awareness for MS and the latest treatments for the disease, traveling
around the United States speaking to corporations, physicians, and patients
about her experience.
Now, in a book that is
at once Hollywood hilarious and personally moving, Teri writes about her life –
speedbumps and all – with the same characteristic wit and warmth that have won
the hearts of fans and Hollywood for more than three decades.
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