Posted on 04/09/2010 10:15:22 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Carol Burnett's new memoir, "This Time Together," is anything but a tell-all book. In fact, it's barely a "tell-some" book.
But if anyone expects the 76-year-old TV legend to reveal herself as a back-stabbing, raging control freak who fought and clawed her way to the top and has nothing good to say about anyone she ever worked with, they really haven't been paying attention.
On the page, Burnett comes across as the same plucky, down-to-earth, good ol' Texas gal we've known for years.
Her first memoir, "One More Time," written in 1986, focused on her early years in Texas and her career evolution through the early '80s. The children of alcoholics, she and her younger sister were raised mostly by their grandmother, whom they called Nanny.
After a brief stint at UCLA, Burnett went off to New York, found early TV fame on the landmark "Garry Moore Show" and became a star with the off-Broadway musical "Once Upon a Mattress....."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
A time of real actors with class that loved their country.
TV series on DVD is a great way to deal with nothing good on TV.
Carol Burnett is a lady and a class act as well as one hell of a comedienne. Her show with Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Lionel Wagoneer and the rest of her zany bunch was from a different time and place in America.
Good suggestion, dangerdoc. She is fond of the criminal shows and some of those series may be available at Costco or Sam’s. Thanks.
Too bad that she’s a lib.
100% supporter of Dianne Feinstein and the DNC.
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