Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner: A Sort of Love Story

by Alan Zweibel Original Saturday Night Live writer and Thurber Prize winner for his novel

Overview

In a series of funny, tender, and touching dialogues, former Saturday Night Live writer Zweibel recalls his buddy-and-almost-lover friendship with SNL actress Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer. Zweibel claims he “merely scribbled the dialogues playing in my head ” and, indeed, these recreated conversations have a neurotic, sarcastic, and vulnerable air of aunthenticity. The actress and writer become fast friends on the SNL set and segue into personal revelation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557832764
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/01/2000
Series:	Applause Books
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.57(d)

Editorial Reviews

As a writer for the original Saturday Night Live , Zweibel formed a fast friendship with comedienne Gilda Radner. This simple and sensitive memoir is based on their curious bond, a relationship that was always emotional but never physical. The friendship contained in the conversations recounted here spans Knicks games, cocaine problems, affairs begun and ended, spouses and children born. Throughout these passages, including his account of Radner's fatal bout with cancer, Zweibel sustains a levity that conveys the love that he and Radner had. Literary Guild selection. (Aug.)

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