Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Bill Maher’s True Story tries to say something profound about stand-up, but fails spectacularly

  For a famously smart guy, Maher makes a lot of incredibly stupid mistakes in his authorial debut.

  April 11, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Is The Kid Stays In The Picture a masterpiece Hollywood memoir? Oh yeah

  Will prolonged exposure to Robert Evans’ prose lead to talking like him? You bet your ass.

  March 7, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club The sordid story of Hollywood in the ’80s is lost on William Stadiem’s Moneywood

  A book that purports to be an insider account is nothing of the sort.

  February 14, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Spaceman Ace Frehley offers his bland version of Kiss’ story in No Regrets

  Our look at the Kiss memoirs concludes with Ace Frehley’s underwhelming account of his strange journey.

  January 31, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Gene Simmons’ Kiss And Make-Up lets The Demon speak for himself

  A look at ridiculous Kiss memoirs continues with the frontman’s punishingly tedious glorification of sex and money.

  January 3, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club The memoir of Kiss drummer Peter Criss is endearingly needy and sleazy

  Catman looks back in anger.

  December 13, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Breaking The Code Of Silence is a tell-all, by Mos Def's ex-wife, that tells little

  “While out that night, I heard some bad news from him. I won’t say what it was in this book because that’s his personal business.”

  November 21, 2012 | 11:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club David Hasselhoff’s Don’t Hassel The Hoff is Hasselhoff without a filter

  Nobody loves The Hoff quite as much as The Hoff does.

  October 16, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Comedy’s most awkward performer, on his uncomfortable year on Seinfeld

  Stand-up veteran Fred Stoller chronicles his time writing for a comedy landmark, but it’s a sad story, not a funny one.

  September 25, 2012 | 11:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Joe Eszterhas’ Heaven And Mel: proof he and Mel Gibson deserve each other 

  The screenwriter behind Showgirls and Basic Instinct delivers a poisonous screed about his work on The Maccabees with Mel Gibson.

  August 21, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Jimmie Walker’s memoir paints him as a comedy Zelig

  Good Times’ J.J. may not have been relevant to the revolution.

  July 24, 2012 | 11:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club J-Zone’s Root For The Villain: Rap, Bullshit And A Celebration Of Failure  

  J-Zone didn’t find fame and fortune in hip-hop. But at least he got a book out of it. 

  December 13, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club La Toya Jackson’s La Toya 

  After covering La Toya Jackson’s 2011 memoir Starting Over, Silly Show-Biz Book Club takes a look back to her markedly different 1992 autobiography La Toya.

  November 3, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club La Toya Jackson’s Starting Over  

  A memoir chronicles a history of abuse and family tension, fuzzily.

  August 23, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Robert Hofler’s Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale Of Sex, Drugs, And Rock ’N’ Roll Starring The Fabulous Allan Carr 

  The producer of Grease lived a life of sordid excess even by Hollywood standards. 

  August 18, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Mötley Crüe’s The Dirt 

  Mötley Crüe’s tell-all has a reputation as the ultimate tale of rock ’n’ roll debauchery. But is there a point to its tales of lowlife and high living? 

  July 27, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Dustin Diamond’s Behind The Bell 

  Screech from Saved By The Bell struggles to deny a past he doesn’t understand by positioning himself as a rockin’ awesome pussy-magnet.

  June 14, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Perfection Is Not a Sitcom Mom by Janet Hubert

  She played Will Smith’s guardian until acrimoniously parting ways with both star and show. But Janet Hubert isn’t bitter. Oh wait. Yeah she is.

  May 19, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club The Other Other Guy’s Fallin’ Up

  It's hard to identify with a member of Black Eyed Peas who thinks his songs are silver and pink, but this memoir almost makes it possible.

  May 17, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Rodney Dangerfield’s It’s Not Easy Bein’ Me: A Lifetime Of No Respect But Plenty Of Sex And Drugs 

  A funnyman’s not-so-funny memoir.

  April 28, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Larry Harris’ And Party Every Day: The Inside Story Of Casablanca Records

  An insider offers a view from the center of the label that kept disco pumping and Kiss in make-up.

  March 22, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Kiss And Sell: The Making Of A Supergroup

  A key member of Kiss’ former financial team tells all (or at least the parts about how the band spent its money).

  February 23, 2011 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi’s A Shore Thing

  A Jersey Shore star makes her literary debut.

  January 14, 2011 | 12:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Here’s The Situation

  “The Situation” “wrote” a “book.”

  November 17, 2010 | 12:01pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Killing Willis by Todd Bridges

  Crack gets you all the girls, and stealing from a drug dealer will get you a baseball bat up the ass.

  May 20, 2010 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Thirty-Nine Years Of Short Term Memory Loss

  Tom Davis did a lot of drugs. And some other stuff.

  April 9, 2010 | 12:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Life With My Sister Madonna by Christopher Ciccone

  March 3, 2010 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club “I slept with Nas” double feature

  One artist unites two very different hip-hop tell-alls.

  February 18, 2010 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club David Lee Roth’s Crazy From The Heat 

  January 18, 2010 | 12:00pm -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Mackenzie Phillips’ High On Arrival 

  Mackenzie Phillips' memoir isn't just gross. It's really, really sad.

  January 5, 2010 | 12:00pm -