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take your shirt off and cry a memoir of near fame experiences
one womans laugh out loud account of the oddities indignities and outright absurdities of a life in show business . p in this strikingly candid memoir nancy balbirer distills two decades of drama school auditions bit parts cameos and off broadway plays into an account by turns hilarious and horrifying . from studying theater in college under the searing purism of david mamet being a woman in show business youll be asked to do only two things in every fucking role you ever play take your shirt off and cry . thats it . take your shirt off and cry . to weathering advice from her brazenly insensitive l.a. agent i didnt think it was possible . but you managed to bore luke perry to scoring a saturday night live audition based on a drunken debra winger impersonation balbirers adventures are sometimes bizarre sometimes painful and always unforgettable . br between run ins with an eccentric cast of all too real characters including an infatuated acting teacher who introduces nancy to the joys of firearms a former sex symbol desperately seeking a toilet and a jazz musician who fancies himself a reincarnated jack kerouac balbirer wrestles with her own ambitions and disappointments struggling to determine what she really wants and who she really is . she may not be destined for hollywood stardom but as take your shirt off and cry makes clear she is definitely a one of a kind talent .
paperback bloomsbury press 2009 isbn13 9781596914780 isbn10 1596914785
abridged n isbn 13 9781596914780 number in series 1 number of pages 231 publisher bloomsbury publishing plc release date 1239667200000