Lady Parts
by Andrea Martin
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A hilarious, entertaining, and often moving memoir, from the multiple Tony and Emmy-awarding winning actress and comedienne, and SCTV alum, Andrea Martin. Whether lighting up the small screen in her new TV series, Working the Engels, on NBC, or stealing scenes on the big screen in My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, or starring on the stage in her recent Tony award winning role as Berthe in Pippin, Andrea Martin has long entertained audiences with her hilarious show more characterizations and heartwarming performances. Martin has worked stages, sets and even trapezes across North America, playing to houses packed with adoring fans, all of whom instantly recognize the star who has entertained us for nearly forty years. In Andrea Martin's Lady Parts, Martin, for the first time, shares her fondest remembrances of a life in show business, motherhood, relationships, no relationships, family, chimps in tutus, squirrels, and why she flies to Atlanta to get her hair cut. Martin opens up her heart in a series of eclectic, human, always entertaining and often moving essays. Lady Parts will make you giggle and may make you cry. This is a powerful collection of stories by a woman with a truly storied life. show lessTags
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The Good Stuff
I had to request this one as I have been told all my life that I look like her (Even Gordon Pinsent) and well quite frankly I grew up on SCTV
Such a beautiful, honest, open and bloody hilarious memoir
Excellent choice with title, but Fake Beaver and Perky Tits would have been wonderful titles as well, though might be hard to market in a family bookstore
After reading her memoir I even feel more close to her. Especially the parenting aspects and the low self esteem about ones body
Enjoyed the story of her first appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Silly I know but it made me happy when she mentioned Nora Short, who went to nursing school with my mom
I admire her openness about talking about her battle with show more Bulimia, that takes courage my twin
Balled my eyes out when she begs forgiveness from her children about not being present while fighting her battle with Bulimia - That is very open and I believe helpful those that might be still fighting this battle
The story about Snow Whites inner thoughts - priceless
She loves Libraries
The chapter on Old Lady Parts is worth the price of the book alone (and I totally understand)
Truly did make me laugh and cry.
Perfect for fans of Andrea, but as well as any women over the age of 30 (Younger women too, but they aren't going to get some things like us old broads)
The Not So Good Stuff
Totally flabbergasted that I didn't know she was an American (shocked I tell you, shocked) I's ok I still love you though
Favorite Quotes/Passages
"I had no conception of what I looked like. I had always adapted to what other people wanted me to be. Without their input my face was a blank canvas."
"I will still camp out on Toronto mayor Rob Ford's front lawn if he brings up the ludicrous and decadent idea of closing libraries again."
"Recently, I accepted the invitation to write a monthly humour column for ParentsCanada magazine. What was I thinking? I don't remember my kids' names, never mind the way I parented them nearly thirty years ago. Except hat I was anxious all the time. Worried that I was not doing it right, whatever "Doing it right| is supposed to mean."
4.75 Dewey's
I received this from HarperCollins in exchange for an honest review - Thanks Cory! show less
I had to request this one as I have been told all my life that I look like her (Even Gordon Pinsent) and well quite frankly I grew up on SCTV
Such a beautiful, honest, open and bloody hilarious memoir
Excellent choice with title, but Fake Beaver and Perky Tits would have been wonderful titles as well, though might be hard to market in a family bookstore
After reading her memoir I even feel more close to her. Especially the parenting aspects and the low self esteem about ones body
Enjoyed the story of her first appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Silly I know but it made me happy when she mentioned Nora Short, who went to nursing school with my mom
I admire her openness about talking about her battle with show more Bulimia, that takes courage my twin
Balled my eyes out when she begs forgiveness from her children about not being present while fighting her battle with Bulimia - That is very open and I believe helpful those that might be still fighting this battle
The story about Snow Whites inner thoughts - priceless
She loves Libraries
The chapter on Old Lady Parts is worth the price of the book alone (and I totally understand)
Truly did make me laugh and cry.
Perfect for fans of Andrea, but as well as any women over the age of 30 (Younger women too, but they aren't going to get some things like us old broads)
The Not So Good Stuff
Totally flabbergasted that I didn't know she was an American (shocked I tell you, shocked) I's ok I still love you though
Favorite Quotes/Passages
"I had no conception of what I looked like. I had always adapted to what other people wanted me to be. Without their input my face was a blank canvas."
"I will still camp out on Toronto mayor Rob Ford's front lawn if he brings up the ludicrous and decadent idea of closing libraries again."
"Recently, I accepted the invitation to write a monthly humour column for ParentsCanada magazine. What was I thinking? I don't remember my kids' names, never mind the way I parented them nearly thirty years ago. Except hat I was anxious all the time. Worried that I was not doing it right, whatever "Doing it right| is supposed to mean."
4.75 Dewey's
I received this from HarperCollins in exchange for an honest review - Thanks Cory! show less
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