Speedbumps: Flooring it Through Hollywood
by Teri Garr, with Henriette Mantel.Published by Hudson Street Press.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 1594630070
ISBN-13: 978-1594630071
Description:
ISBN-13: 978-1594630071
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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