Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls
By: Susan Seidelman
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The funny and insightful first-person story of the trailblazing movie director of the 80s and 90s …
Want to Read $ 14.99"The biggest takeaway from my long-distance relationship with Floyd Byars was that I optioned an original screenplay he had co-written with his writing partner, Laurie. Another takeaway was a case of crabs picked up on our only vacation together in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. I noticed a crab in my eyelashes when I was in the airplane bathroom on my way back to JFK. I feared these little critters might be other places as well, so I spent the next four hours squirming in my seat, itchy and miserable. On the taxi ride home, I made the driver stop at an all-night pharmacy so I could buy a bottle of Kwell. But despite the footsies and the crabs, I liked the premise of his (their) Making Mr. Right script."-Susan Seidelman, Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls
"The biggest takeaway from my long-distance relationship with Floyd Byars was that I optioned an original screenplay he had co-written with his writing partner, Laurie. Another takeaway was a case of crabs picked up on our only vacation together in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. I noticed a crab in my eyelashes when I was in the airplane bathroom on my way back to JFK. I feared these little critters might be other places as well, so I spent the next four hours squirming in my seat, itchy and miserable. On the taxi ride home, I made the driver stop at an all-night pharmacy so I could buy a bottle of Kwell. But despite the footsies and the crabs, I liked the premise of his (their) Making Mr. Right script."-Susan Seidelman, Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls
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5. The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
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4.06
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3.74
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15. Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls
By: Susan Seidelman
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Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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