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It's Always Something
by Gilda Radner
This book kind of got misplaced during the moving and shuffling. I did finally manage to uncover it and keep hold of it long enough to finish it.
Gilda Radner, of Saturday Night Live fame, tells of her early life and the decision to become a comedian - the how and why - her insecurities and her strengths. She fell in love with Gene Wilder and was desperately clingy. But then, a friend gave her a Yorkie, who became very important to her and saw her though the rough time when she and Gene were apart. They decided to give it another try and in the airport, she became concerned that her Yorkie had eaten some rat poison and told Gene she had to take him to a vet, he could go on alone. Gene decided then that she had matured enough not to smother him. They got married in France and she wanted to start a family, but miscarried a couple of times. Then she began to have pains in her legs as well as severe stomach pains. That's when they discovered she had ovarian cancer.
She goes through her reactions and her decisions and tells how she worked out her decision to fight this and came to terms with it. It wasn't an easy fight and is not without emotion, but she is mostly positive and matter of fact. The really sad part comes at the end where Gene Wilder tells of a poem she wrote just before her death and a drawing he found after she died.
Gilda Radner, of Saturday Night Live fame, tells of her early life and the decision to become a comedian - the how and why - her insecurities and her strengths. She fell in love with Gene Wilder and was desperately clingy. But then, a friend gave her a Yorkie, who became very important to her and saw her though the rough time when she and Gene were apart. They decided to give it another try and in the airport, she became concerned that her Yorkie had eaten some rat poison and told Gene she had to take him to a vet, he could go on alone. Gene decided then that she had matured enough not to smother him. They got married in France and she wanted to start a family, but miscarried a couple of times. Then she began to have pains in her legs as well as severe stomach pains. That's when they discovered she had ovarian cancer.
She goes through her reactions and her decisions and tells how she worked out her decision to fight this and came to terms with it. It wasn't an easy fight and is not without emotion, but she is mostly positive and matter of fact. The really sad part comes at the end where Gene Wilder tells of a poem she wrote just before her death and a drawing he found after she died.