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Summary: NOT FICTION!
Review: Anyone who has ever seen "Tootsie" or several episodes of "M.A.S.H." or the Broadway musical comedy "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" (one of the very few musicals that is actually also a COMEDY!) knows how very funny Gelbart is.With this volume of articles, memories, and even bits of scripts, Gelbart helps us understand why he has won awards in every medium he's written for, why he is so respected and, obviously, loved by people who work with him. This is a delightful, much-too-brief book, worthwhile if only for its appreciation of performers from Jack Benny to Whoopie Goldberg. One of the other on-line reviewers has called this book the "worst kind of popular pulp fiction trash." And it very well might be, were it not for the fact that it is TRUTH, NOT FICTION.
Rating:
Summary: NOT FICTION!
Review: Anyone who has ever seen "Tootsie" or several episodes of "M.A.S.H." or the Broadway musical comedy "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" (one of the very few musicals that is actually also a COMEDY!) knows how very funny Gelbart is. With this volume of articles, memories, and even bits of scripts, Gelbart helps us understand why he has won awards in every medium he's written for, why he is so respected and, obviously, loved by people who work with him. This is a delightful, much-too-brief book, worthwhile if only for its appreciation of performers from Jack Benny to Whoopie Goldberg. One of the other on-line reviewers has called this book the "worst kind of popular pulp fiction trash." And it very well might be, were it not for the fact that it is TRUTH, NOT FICTION.
Rating: 
Summary: Disappointing and horridly edited
Review: I picked up this book looking for something very different from what I wound up with. The editor seems to have padded out a lot of miscellaneous articles by Gelbart with jottings of his own, pages of lavish praise of Gelbart that you would think would embarrass Gelbart to be published in a book under his own name. Has he no shame? Enough already with these selections from old TV Guides! What a waste of a great talent!
Rating: 
Summary: What an awful book
Review: This book is the worst kind of popular pulp fiction trash. I used it to line my bird cage.
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