Showbiz memoirs

From the classic days of television comes memoirs from two of the best: Jeannie Out of the Bottle by Barbara Eden and My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business by Dick Van Dyke.  As it turns out, both are just as likeable as you would expect from their screen personae.  If you're worried that they aren't relevent, consider this point from the New York Times review:

"As much as television has changed in 50 years, you can trace '30 Rock' directly back through 'Mary Tyler Moore' to 'The Dick Van Dyke Show': beneath its oh-so-nuanced emotional firewall and the sophisticated embrace-rejection tango with cynicism, there’s at least as much insulation from the harsher facts of show business and personal misery as when Van Dyke was trading writers’-room one-­liners with Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam."

Click here for the rest of the review, or click here for Jeannie Out of the Bottle, or here for My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business.