Enter Whining
The personal story of the New York-accented star of "The Nanny" includes humorous childhood family stories, early career experiences, and anecdotes about her daily life in Hollywood
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She's Alice in Wonderlandstein. An ordinary girl in an extraordinary situation. What happens to Fran from Flushing when she becomes the queen of Queens? In her unmistakable and inimitable voice, Fran Drescher describes her funny and outrageous climb up the show-business ladder.She recalls her early years in Hollywood, when she entertained a prominent producer who passed out in his pate. Then there's the making of the cult classic This Is Spinal Tap, as Fran ad-libs the role of record promoter Bobbi Flekman for the first-time director Rob Reiner. You'll love her nude scene in Cadillac Man with the hairiest man in America, Robin Williams.Plus her hysterical face-to-face encounters with superstars like Barbra Streisand and Warren Beatty, not to mention the time Fran was introduced to the Princess of Wales, Diana herself! ("Oy! All of a sudden she started to get bitchy, and I thought to myself, Nobody likes a bitchy princess, Princess.")The details of her wedding to her high school sweetheart, Peter Marc Jacobson, are enough to keep you in stitches. It was a night that will live in infamy, thanks to Fran's family. We're talking her sister's wig catching fire, not to mention a nitroglycerin-pill-popping-rabbi!You'll laugh at the way Fran schmoozes her way into her own television series as she carpe diems with a CBS network executive who has the misfortune of being trapped in first class ("Where was he gonna go, coach?") with her on a 747 to Paris. "It's kinda like The Sound Music, only instead of Julie Andrews I come to the door," Fran pitched.Fans of The Nanny will delight in Fran's backstage stories about the making of their favorite sitcom. You'll hear about casting, shooting the pilot, and hosting the glamorous dinner party, where - in front of the entire CBS brass - her sweater caught fire. A network exec helped pull it off, leaving her topless! ("Of all the days not to wear a bra!")Don't miss her secrets to staying thin (wait till you see the chubby photos) and her lifetime struggle with her weight. ("It was years before l ever ordered shrimp in a restaurant because the portion was always too small.") You'll also get behind-the-scenes dish on talkshow hosts David Letterman, Jay Leno, and Howard Stern.
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