false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178663658m/818777.jpg 76625 11 Alan Alda's autobiography travels a path less taken. Instead of a sensationalist, name-dropping page-turner, Alda writes about his life as a memory play, an exercise in recollecting his childhood, his parents (dad Robert was a veteran on stage, film, and vaudeville), and his career. You want to know about Alda's most famous work, the eleven years on <I>M*A*S*H</I>? You have exactly 16 pages to do so, and guess what: It's one of the least entertaining parts of the book. But should fans of the award-winning actor-writer-director avoid this slim memoir? Not in the slightest. Slyly humorous and open-hearted, <I>Never Have Your Dog Stuffed</I> is a breezy, most enjoyable read. Alda's ability to recall his childhood (including backstage at raunchy vaudeville shows), school years, stage struggles and successes is as entertaining as one of his Emmy-winning teleplays. Alda is inordinately attune recalling life's crystallizing moments: when religion no longer worked for him, how something in his pocket made him forever a better actor, or his mother's painful descent into dementia. Alda's ever present humor is a great asset whether telling a charming love story on meeting his wife Arlene or a life-threatening illness in a remote part of Chile ("I am in and out of consciences, but I never take a break from the screaming. The show must go on."). Like Alda's persona, his book is more human and less flash. What would be filler in most books is often the mot entertaining and revealing here; especially Alda's dynamic relationship with his parents. Really, who else would name his memoir after an unfortunate trip to the taxidermist? The year the book was published during a revival for the 69-year-old; he was nominated for an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony in the same year. <I>--Doug Thomas</I> 99705 12 9 2005 Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned total:1001|5:190|4:426|3:286|2:81|1:18| 1001 3692 1378 235 76625 0812974409 9780812974409 923 214 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256062722m/76625.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76625.Never_Have_Your_Dog_Stuffed_And_Other_Things_I_ve_Learned 4 23 false Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 10:34:49 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 07:17:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 76625 0812974409 9780812974409 923 214 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256062722m/76625.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76625.Never_Have_Your_Dog_Stuffed_And_Other_Things_I_ve_Learned 3 1 false Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 31 20:43:15 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 02 17:43:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 76625 0812974409 9780812974409 923 214 3.69 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256062722m/76625.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76625.Never_Have_Your_Dog_Stuffed_And_Other_Things_I_ve_Learned 4 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Mar 05 15:20:51 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 15:21:28 -0800 2009
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