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Kelly Bishop is a delight and an inspiration to listen to. She’s unapologetically herself and has lived such a bit, beautiful life. Would recommend this memoir to anyone, but it’s required reading for Gilmore Girls fans. 🍂
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Kelly Bishops book brought into focus again how actors and actresses are people to. They get sick, have ups and downs in their careers and face hardships just like anyone else. What we see on the screen is not the true person but the role they are playing. Her story and career has been long and wide. I had no idea she started out on “A Chorus Line” and won a Tony. She loved deeply and had definite options on her life and how she was going to live it. I really enjoyed listening to her story. All actors should read their own memoirs since it really brings it out in their voice
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Graphic: Cancer
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can’t give this book anything less than 5 stars. i enjoyed every second of hearing kelly’s story. audiobook was wonderful too!
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Loved listening to Kelly Bishop tell her life story. She is an inspiring woman with a great zest for life. Really enjoyed her narrative and getting to know what she is all about.
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Really enjoyable! A quick read (or listen). Entertaining and poignant. Bishop regales the reader with her life story: a tumultuous early childhood with a philandering father, finding her way into entertainment, love found and lost (and found again), becoming the beloved Emily Gilmore, and navigating the current world through COVID and becoming a widow.
As with (probably) most readers, I know Bishop as Emily Gilmore. I knew nothing of the incredible, decades-long resume she boasts, especially in theater (a Tony for her performance in A Chorus Line, are you kidding me!?). She seems incredibly humble for all of her accomplishments, maintaining a quick wit and a great outlook into her ninth decade.
I loved so many of the anecdotes she shared - how the book’s title came to be (thanks, random gas station teenager), her goodbye to colleague and friend Edward Herrmann, attending a pro-choice rally with Amy Sherman-Palladino (heck yeah women’s rights!). I also loved the deep, meaningful relationships she cultivated and maintained with those dear to her - colleagues and friends, but especially her mother and her husband Lee.
If you know any of Bishop’s work, I highly recommend this read!
As with (probably) most readers, I know Bishop as Emily Gilmore. I knew nothing of the incredible, decades-long resume she boasts, especially in theater (a Tony for her performance in A Chorus Line, are you kidding me!?). She seems incredibly humble for all of her accomplishments, maintaining a quick wit and a great outlook into her ninth decade.
I loved so many of the anecdotes she shared - how the book’s title came to be (thanks, random gas station teenager), her goodbye to colleague and friend Edward Herrmann, attending a pro-choice rally with Amy Sherman-Palladino (heck yeah women’s rights!). I also loved the deep, meaningful relationships she cultivated and maintained with those dear to her - colleagues and friends, but especially her mother and her husband Lee.
If you know any of Bishop’s work, I highly recommend this read!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Cancer, Death, Infidelity, Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy
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