Dear George: Advice and Answers From America's Leading Expert On Everything From A to B - Hardcover
The movie star and comedian answers a variety of questions and offers comic personal advice and practical solutions, as well as a generous selection of anecdotes from his show business career
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The public's enthusiasm for Burns continues unflagged, and this book should be as successful as his How to Live to Be 100or More and Dr. Burns' Prescription for Happiness. But relatively few of the jokes are funny. Using the device of letters ostensibly sent by readers requesting his wisdom, the comedian comments on sex, old age, sex in old age, sex with young people in old age. There are stories about great vaudevilleans, some amusing, some merely sentimental tributes. Burns has an appealingly informal style: if he can't fit an anecdote into his response he simply appends an aside to the reader, which lends the book some of the rhythm of a stand-up act. But one misses his wonderful vocal delivery, which during his long career has undoubtedly saved many jokes no better than most of these. Photos. 200,000 first printing; BOMC alternate. October
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- PublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0399131051
- ISBN 13 9780399131059
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. Another humorous collection of jokes, gags, witticisms, and parodies from the old master comedian - this time pretending to be a sort of advice columnist and human storehouse of useless information. Hardcover with dust jacket, illustrations, 220pp., d.j. shows light edgewear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 00013270
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. Eighty-nine years in the making! The book he swore he'd never write. (So he dictated it!) Priceless pearls of wisdom from the man who played God three times and never got struck by a thunderbolt! Few celebrities today are as multitalented as George Burns. His elegant wit, suave charm, and irresistible way with a song have made him an international sex symbol. Wherever Burns goes, his reputation precedes him. (Well, nobody's perfect!) But some people aren't fooled by appearances, and these discerning men and women have written to Dr. Burns for help with their most pressing personal problems. They know they can count on him to come up with the right answers. He's sensible, erudite, compassionate, and does a passable soft shoe. He shoots from the hip, caUs 'em as he sees ^em, and makes it all perfectly clear. His expertise covers a virtually inexhaustible range of subjects: whether the topic is sex or girls, he can be counted on to zero in on the question and come up with the perfect, practical solution. Neither an optimist nor a pessimist (nor a podiatrist), George Burns grinds no axes. His open-mindedness (he likes redheads as weU as blondes) is one of the very special qualities he brings to the role of counselor. Nor is he a snob. He'U shoot off his mouth to practically anyone. And he knows how to keep a secret. From the reader's pen to Oh, God's ears is a principle he sees as central to the art of helping others. And he's been giving advice for a long time. In fact, he was telling people what to do when Dear Abby was still in Mary Janes. G. P Putnam's Sons is honored to publish what must be regarded as a major breakthrough in the field of personal guidance: Dear George - a work whose universality extends from Anaheim all the way to Bora Bora, and whose brilliant insights may weU change your life. (Even if they don't you'U still get a couple of good laughs out of it.) The amazing George Burns, although ninety years old on January 20,1986, is still one of America's greatest stars of motion pictures, television, concerts, and recordings. Book. Seller Inventory # 000861
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