My Journey Through Show Business
by Charles Grodin
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Charles Grodin serves dry, self-mocking tales of career highs and public setbacks, delivered with a conversational, sometimes cantankerous tone. The book is strongest as a string of sharp backstage vignettes and one-liners that reveal how an actor navigated humiliation and comeback. It’s less useful for readers who want clear, repeatable career steps or contemporary industry context, since themes are revisited through anecdote rather than reorganized into advice. Expect humor mixed with nostalgia; the tone can tip into bitterness for some readers.
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Although Charles Grodin has enjoyed stardom, his career has had its share of catastrophic setbacks, and Grodin writes about them with candor and liberating humor, dispensing invaluable advice about the art of surviving in the celluloid jungle....
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Nonfiction.
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