![]() ![]() She reinvented herself as a voiceover actor and has found a thriving career working on such animated vehicles as Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., Despicable Me, Inside Out, Shrek, and Minions. ![]() She resumed working in film and television, and has adopted long-term sobriety and parenthood. Newman struggled with the demons of depression, addiction, and self-doubt along the way, and after her five years at SNL ended in 1980, struggled to cope. There are lots of drugs, sex and famous names thrown about in the book, but it isn’t all laughs and glamour. There, along with John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtain, Garret Morris, and Gilda Radner, Newman was part of the founders that made the show a cultural landmark. Of course, that ignited the rocket to fame that was the original cast of Saturday Night Live. Narrated by Newman, the audiobook explores the entirety of her life, from growing up in Los Angeles with movie star neighbors, bearing witness to the music scene in the 1960s (and losing her virginity to Johnny Winter) and seeing the rise of comedy in the early 70s, to studying mime in Paris under the tutelage of Marcel Marceau. ![]() However you remember Laraine Newman from her Saturday Night Live days of more than four decades ago, you’ll look at her in a different way after reviewing her new audiobook, May You Live in Interesting Times, a nine-hour memoir out via March 11. Maybe you recall the stints as a TV news reporter on Chevy Chase’s version of SNL’s “Weekend Update” segments. Or perhaps you remember her as Christie Christina, the cohost of E. With the alternating warmth and sadness of the best coming-of-age stories, The Saturday Night Ghost Club is a note-perfect novel that poignantly examines the haunting mutability of memory and storytelling, as well as the experiences that form the people we become, and establishes Craig Davidson as a remarkable literary talent.She’s been Connie Conehead, the youngest spawn of Beldar and Prymaat. The summer Jake turns twelve, he befriends a pair of siblings new to town, and so Calvin decides to initiate them all into the "Saturday Night Ghost Club." But as the summer goes on, what begins as a seemingly light-hearted project may ultimately uncover more than any of its members had imagined. Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls - a seedy but magical, slightly haunted place - Jake Baker spends most of his time with his uncle Calvin, a kind but eccentric enthusiast of occult artifacts and conspiracy theories. Immensely enjoyable, piercingly clever, and satisfyingly soulful." -Jason Heller, NPR "A celebration of the secret lives of children, both their wonders and their horrors. An irresistible and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of Stranger Things and Stand by Me about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends ![]()
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