Annabelle Gurwitch
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"With signature "sharp wit" (NPR), Annabelle Gurwitch gives irreverent and empathetic voice to a generation hurtling into their next chapter with no safety net and proving that our no-frills new normal doesn't mean a deficit of humor. In these essays, Gurwitch embraces homesharing, welcoming a housing-insecure young couple and a bunny rabbit into her home. The mother of a college student in recovery who sheds the gender binary, she relearns to parent,...
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English
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“Annabelle Gurwitch is the child prodigy of the literature on aging. The only downside of this book is that it is bound to deepen your laugh lines.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed
Actor and humorist Annabelle Gurwitch returns with a wickedly funny book of essays about the indignities faced by femmes d’un certain âge. Whether she is falling in lust at the Genius Bar, coping with...
Actor and humorist Annabelle Gurwitch returns with a wickedly funny book of essays about the indignities faced by femmes d’un certain âge. Whether she is falling in lust at the Genius Bar, coping with...
5) Fired
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English
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Actors are never fired -- they leave for medical reasons or the old stand-by "creative differences." After her role in a Woody Allen play was "rethought," Gurwitch was devastated. Then she got funny. She and fellow show-biz veterans share stories in a series of monologues full of hilarious mistakes and misadventures audiences crave.
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Annabelle Gurwitch was a child, surrounded by a cast of epically dysfunctional relatives, she secretly prayed that it was all a terrible mistake. Maybe she was a long lost daughter of Joni Mitchell or the reincarnation of an Egyptian princess. A family of bootleggers, gamblers, and philanderers, the Gurwitches have always been a bit vague on the standard ideal of a loving and supportive family. Their definition includes people you can count on...
7) Fired Again
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English
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Ever been fired? Annabelle Gurwitch and a host of others tell their stories of how they got fired. These individual monologues are honest and hilarious. Losing a job will never be this fun again.
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English
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The fateful collision of a lonely Jewish baker and a passionate Palestinian sets in motion a deepening friendship as the two struggle with identity and loyalty to their beliefs and to each other. An act of violence brought them together. Will another tear them apart? An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Omar Metwally, Megan Austin Oberle, Annabelle Gurwitch, Martin Rayner and Andre Sogliuzzo.
10) It's Us
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Language
English
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A young married couple moves from Los Angeles to Vermont in search of a geographical marriage fix.
11) Adam's Rib
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English
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A happily married couple's relationship is put to the test when husband and wife find themselves serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making, attempted murder, marital case - he as the prosecutor, she as the defender. The comical fireworks displayed in the courtroom follow these two home, creating a clever and extremely funny portrait of love and work. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Adam Arkin, Anne...
12) Fired
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
When actress Annabelle Gurwitch was fired from a play by Woody Allen, she wondered how she would cope with being fired by a cultural icon. Turning to friends in show business, she was assured she was not alone. Once the subject had been broached, everyone she knew, from her rabbi, to her gynecologist, had stories of getting the boot. This set her off on a journey to answer the question: was being fired going to be the best thing, or worst thing, that...