A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER with a new bonus chapter WINNER of the Good Reads Choice Awards 2017 for Humour In this collection of personal essays the beloved star of Gilmore Girls & Parenthood reveals stories about life love & working as a woman in Hollywood-along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again In Talking As Fast As I Can Lauren Graham hits pause for a moment & looks back on her life sharing laugh-out-loud stories about growing up starting out as an actress & years later sitting in her trailer on the Parenthood set & asking herself " Did you um make it?" She opens up about the challenges of being single in Hollywood (" Strangers were worried about me; that's how long I was single!") the time she was asked to audition her butt for a role & her experience being a judge on Project Runway (" It's like I had a fashion-induced blackout") In " What It Was Like Part One" Graham sits down for an epic Gilmore Girls marathon & reflects on being cast as the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore The essay " What It Was Like Part Two" reveals how it felt to pick up the role again nine years later & what doing so has meant to her Some more things you will learn about Lauren She once tried to go vegan just to bond with Ellen De Generes she's aware that meeting guys at awards shows has its pitfalls (" If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair makeup & styling you've already set the bar too high") & she's a card-carrying REI shopper (" My bungee cords now earn points!") Including photos & excerpts from the diary Graham kept during the filming of the recent Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life this book is like a cozy night in catching up with your best friend laughing & swapping stories &-of course-talking as fast as you can ...

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Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues originally filmed for BBC Television At once darkly comic tragically poignant & wonderfully uplifting Talking Heads is widely regarded as a modern classic This edition which contains the complete collection of Talking Heads as well as his earlier monologue A Woman of No Importance is a celebration of Alan Bennett's finest work ...

Tracklist Thank You For Sending Me An Angel With Our Love The Good Thing Warning Sign The Girls Want To Be With The Girls Found A Job Artists Only I'm Not In Love Stay Hungry Take Me To The River The Big Country ...

Tracklist The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads 1977-1979 New Feeling A Clean Break Don't Worry About The Government Pulled Up Psycho Killer Artists Only Stay Hungry Air Buildings On Fire Memories (Can't Wait)I Zimbra Drugs Houses In Motion Life During Wartime The Great Curve Crosseyed & Painless Take Me To The River ...

The fourth studio album by the American punk band Following the release of their previous album ' Fear of Music' in 1979 the quartet & Eno sought to dispel notions of the band as a mere vehicle for frontman & lyricist David Byrne Drawing on the influence of Nigerian musician Fela Kuti the band experimented with African polyrhythms funk & electronics recording instrumental tracks as a series of looping grooves Features the singles ' Once in a Lifetime' & ' Houses in Motion' Disc 1 Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) 2005 Remaster Crosseyed & Painless (2005 Remaster) The Great Curve (2005 Remaster) Disc 2 Once in a Lifetime (2005 Remaster) Houses in Motion (2005 Remaster) Seen & Not Seen (2005 Remaster) Listening Wind (2005 Remaster) The Overload (2005 Remaster) ...

Tracklist A1 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel A2 Burning Down The House A3 Making Flippy Floppy A4 Once In A Lifetime A5 Found A Job B1 Slippery People B2 What A Day That Was B3 This Must Be The Place C1 Life During Wartime C2 Big Business C3 Swamp D1 Psycho Killer D2 Cross Eyed & Painless D3 Take Me To The River ...

A compilation of monologues first transmitted in 1988 ...

Tracklist A1 The Big Country 512 A2 Warning Sign 422 A3 The Book I Read 504 A4 Stay Hungry 247 A5 Artists Only 455 A6 The Girls Want To Be With The Girls 334 A7 Don't Worry About The Government 258 B1 The Good Thing 302 B2 Uh-Oh Love Comes To Town 240 B3 Love Building On Fire 256 B4 New Feeling 306 B5 Psycho Killer 601 B6 Thank You For Sending Me An Angel 205 B7 Take Me To The River 528 ...

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a novel of profound insight & comic flare Shy sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is until a fortuitous singles night where he meets Gillian a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair Stuart's best friend Oliver is his complete opposite
- a language teacher who 'talks like a dictionary' brash & feckless Soon Stuart & Gillian are married but it is not long before a tentative friendship between the three evolves into something far different Talking it Over is a brilliant & intimate account of love's vicissitudes It begins as a comedy of errors then slowly darkens & deepens drawing us compellingly into the quagmires of the heart
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