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Book details
  • Genre:BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  • SubGenre:Personal Memoirs
  • Language:English
  • Pages:336
  • eBook ISBN:9781483595689
  • Paperback ISBN:9781483595672

Hot Pants in Hollywood

Sex, Secrets & Sitcoms

by Susan Silver

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Overview


Hot Pants In Hollywood is a show biz memoir, and much more.  It's a Baby Boomer's life on steroids.

Susan Silver was one of the first female TV comedy writers, with credits like The Mary Tyler Moore Show,

The Bob Newhart Show, Maude, Square Pegs,  among others.  It is about reinventing yourself, finding love

and creating a passionate life, from someone who has done so.  It's funny, moving, inspirational, and sexy

too.



Description

Hot Pants in Hollywood: Sex,Secrets & Sitcoms is a book for Baby Boomers and Millennials as well. It traces the life of a woman in a man's world, deals with all the phases of a woman's life, from divorce, dating, to takin care of elderly parents.  Like Zelig, or Ms. Zelig, the author has met and interacted with most of the icons of our time and has amusing anecdotes to prove it. It's filled with laughs and sex and insights into reinvention you can use to stay young.  Enjoy!

About the author
SUSAN SILVER BIO Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, trailblazing comedy writer and cultural commentator Susan Silver has written for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Maude, The Partridge Family and Square Pegs. She has appeared on CNN, HLN, Good Day NY and Today, and has written for The New York Times and Refinery 29. Susan attended Northwestern University and graduated from UCLA, and has taught comedy at the Television Academy, and New School as well as lectured at the Paley Center, SCAD, and Brandeis University. Her new memoir, Hot Pants in Hollywood: Sex, Secrets and Sitcoms (will be published in Spring 2017. She lives in New York City.