Content tagged with “television” under “My Library”
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“Matthew Perry is lucky to be alive. In this book, he recounts his story of addiction, from alcohol as a teenager, through to pills as an adult. As the book starts, he’s in rehab, in great pain. Opiates cause constipation, and he’s so constipated that his bowel ruptures. He almost dies. He spends…”
“Moonlighting was finally streaming on Hulu, so I started binge-watching it. It was a show that aired during my teenage years, so I have vague memories of it. It was an ‘adult’ show, and I somewhat remember my mother not approving. I saw a scattering of episodes, but never string them together….”
“This is an excellent, detailed history of the first 10 years of Saturday Night Live . I was surprised it only covered the first 10 years, but then I further surprised to find that it was written in 1986. (Apparently this book was a tell-all scandal back then. I was reading the Wikipedia page for…”
“I enjoyed this quite a bit, largely because it felt like it was written by Tom Selleck himself. I was nervous when I saw a co-author credit, because I was afraid it was going to be glossy and sanitized, but it’s not. In fact, it’s even a little awkward in places. It genuinely feels like it was…”
