How To Not Succeed In Show Business By Really Trying Single eBook Claudia Lonow
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A teeny, tiny show business memoir.
How To Not Succeed In Show Business By Really Trying Single eBook Claudia Lonow
Your enjoyment of this will probably be a direct result of your ability to enjoy black humor, crudeness, mentions of bodily fluids,sex clubs, and a seeming inability to self-censor. To some people, that's delightful, to others, a nightmare. I'm the type to be pretty amused, but I promise you that if you're not naturally inclined to laugh at, oh, Sarah Silverman, you're probably going to hate this. A lot. (There's also the matter of how many errors you can stand.)I think the writer is naturally funny and outrageous and not afraid to drop some revelations in passing about celebrities. Hit and run -- did she really type that? -- stuff. Which guy who played Batman "conducted a morally conflicted" flirtation with her when she was was fifteen? There was also this almost drive-by mention of her stepfather almost leaving her mother for Deidre Hall which really defines her faux-casual tone that seems to cover something deeper and darker until she allows that darkness to show.
There was a certain irony in reading this after a book about how parents don't let their kids take enough risks, because the author's childhood definitely reads like the opposite side of that argument. I want to give Child Protective Services a phone call and a time machine.
I'm tempted to give it 4 stars -- I was inexplicably amused to no end by the line, "The girl in the cow suit hated me and whispered invectives at me through her snout" -- but this is really badly edited to the point that I have to acknowledge it. Unless "spray pant" is a thing. This is email or personal blog quality, er, Amazon review quality, meaning that there are errors that would be excused in those formats, but less so in a work for sale which is presumably meant to be of professional grade. It's honestly perplexing that seemingly no one corrected this even to the point of making sure proper nouns are capitalized.
Funny, dark, crude, typo-laden.
(Lending, at least for the moment, is enabled on this piece.)
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How To Not Succeed In Show Business By Really Trying Single eBook Claudia Lonow Reviews
I loved this little gem! I read parts of it to my stand-up comedian boyfriend, and he loved it, too. That is the ultimate stamp of approval, one comic laughing at another's work. She's very funny. If you're prissy, you won't like her. If you have a ribald and dark sense of humor, you will really enjoy reading this author. I'm looking forward to further work from her. What a great way to start a Sunday morning!
A very funny memoir written by a very cheeky young woman. By way of disclosure, I have known the author since she was no bigger then a minute and she was cheeky back then those many years ago in Greenwich Village. At her young age, Claudia has managed to live a few lifetimes and survived them handily, even a variety TV show starring Mary Tyler Moore ( a bad concept like giving Roseanne Barr a talk show). Loved the read. Love her humor and writing style, limited by my two thumbs, but both are raised for this teeny tiny chronicle.
You know that person you hope you're seated next to at a dinner party, the one who tells the most engaging stories and has everyone around them laughing non-stop? Her name is Claudia Lonow. It seems like every chapter of Lonow's life is a story that could be performed at The Moth. This so-called "teeny, tiny showbiz memoir" is a mini-collection of three vignettes that somehow manage to be both hilarious and heart-wrenching growing up as the mostly neglected child of two self-absorbed struggling actors in the "artsy, fartsy plus robby-stabby" Greenwich Village of the 1970s; her first acting job at 15, playing Mary Tyler Moore's granddaughter on the quickly defunct variety show, "The Mary Tyler Moore Hour"; and the time she decided the best way to show her new boyfriend she was cool was by taking him to a sex club. I just learned that Claudia Lonow is the creator of a new television comedy about to debut on ABC after "Modern Family," called "How To Live With Your Parents (for the rest of your life)." Apparently, those self-absorbed parents from this memoir are still providing her with material, and she is finding new ways to share it with us. It's like we all get to sit next to Claudia Lonow at the dinner party.
This story involves an situation about a girl growing up with parents that were both mostly out of work actors. That part of the story is very and interesting. However, the author's bemused tone doesn't work when she describes child neglect and abuse, and being bullied at school. The author makes an abrupt shift when the family moves from New York to California, and she is cast in two series and her stepfather also has some success as an actor. It is never really explained how this happened, or even how the family circumstances and dynamic changed because of this. Then the tale moves on to her young adulthood. Her relationship with her parents of what type of work she does then aren't mentioned. The rest of the story is similar to a "Sex in the City" episode with its mix of frank sexuality and deeply felt emotions. It is too disjointed to work as a Single. It could be two pieces, one dealing with having parents on the margins of show business, and another on the modern day romance featured in the last pages of the story. It could also be expanded to a full lenght book. As it, is is lacking.
I'd never heard of Claudia Lonow before last night. I bought this because I wanted to see what a Single was like and this sounded like something fun to read before I went to sleep, rather than some of the weightier Singles on offer. And it was fun, a real treat.
At the time I'm writing there's only one other review; it gives Lonow one star and refers to the poor writing. I'm staggered. The writing is splendid, deft sketches of people and places, nothing too long or detailed because that's not the format here. Most splendid is the pacing towards punchlines that had me muffling laughter so as not to wake my wife.
It's $1.99 for goodness sake, less than the price of a cup of coffee. Buy it and see. $1.99 is the most you could lose.
Your enjoyment of this will probably be a direct result of your ability to enjoy black humor, crudeness, mentions of bodily fluids,sex clubs, and a seeming inability to self-censor. To some people, that's delightful, to others, a nightmare. I'm the type to be pretty amused, but I promise you that if you're not naturally inclined to laugh at, oh, Sarah Silverman, you're probably going to hate this. A lot. (There's also the matter of how many errors you can stand.)
I think the writer is naturally funny and outrageous and not afraid to drop some revelations in passing about celebrities. Hit and run -- did she really type that? -- stuff. Which guy who played Batman "conducted a morally conflicted" flirtation with her when she was was fifteen? There was also this almost drive-by mention of her stepfather almost leaving her mother for Deidre Hall which really defines her faux-casual tone that seems to cover something deeper and darker until she allows that darkness to show.
There was a certain irony in reading this after a book about how parents don't let their kids take enough risks, because the author's childhood definitely reads like the opposite side of that argument. I want to give Child Protective Services a phone call and a time machine.
I'm tempted to give it 4 stars -- I was inexplicably amused to no end by the line, "The girl in the cow suit hated me and whispered invectives at me through her snout" -- but this is really badly edited to the point that I have to acknowledge it. Unless "spray pant" is a thing. This is email or personal blog quality, er, review quality, meaning that there are errors that would be excused in those formats, but less so in a work for sale which is presumably meant to be of professional grade. It's honestly perplexing that seemingly no one corrected this even to the point of making sure proper nouns are capitalized.
Funny, dark, crude, typo-laden.
(Lending, at least for the moment, is enabled on this piece.)
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