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Paperback. Pub Date: 1999 Pages: 272 in Publisher: Harper Paperbacks As an openly gay comic Bob Smith oke barriers with an appearance on The Tonight Show Now Smith offers up his own original. Whine-free perspective on being grown up and gay.In OPENLY BOB. the acclaimed comedian candidly. and humorously. tackles issues facing grown-up gays as they make their place in an overwhelmingly straight society. From inging your boyfriend home to your father's funeral. to being the only gay couple at a family wedding. to surviving couples counseling. Smith's decidedly wry spin on the events of our lives resonates with keen observation and hilarious truth.So Mom says to me on the phone. 'Just because you're coming home for your father's funeral doesn' t mean we can't have fun 'Sex education. meteor showers. lesbian ventriloquist dummies. fleamarket shopping. body piercing. pot-smoking d...
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"Bob Smith is a real writer...a trusty and tart guide, and as you'd suspect, a master of the one-line observation...But what readers, gay and straight, will really appreciate are the direct approach and the eye for detail that make this book a touchingly personal document. Smith brings a sensibility and a sensitivity that make this one of the most rewarding gay books of the year." --Lambda Book Report"Hilarious."--Entertainment Weekly."Emotionally powerful, obviously honest...a true heart and a very funny one as well." --San Francisco Chronicle"OPENLY BOB is a dazzlingly funny, semiautobiographical, hardcover one-man show."--Paper"Bob Smith is that rare phenomenon: a hilarious gentile. OPENLY BOB is his wickedly funny diary...Not only is this book entertaining and touching, but it also includes perhaps the finest Lucille Ball anecdote of our time." --Paul Rudnick
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In Openly Bob, Bob Smith offers his own original, whine-free perspective on being grown up and gay. From bringing your boyfriend home to your father's funeral, to being the only gay couple at a family wedding, to surviving couples counseling, Smith's unique point of view on the very ordinary events of our lives resonates with keen observation and hilarious truth. Sex education, meteor showers, lesbian ventriloquist dummies, flea-market shopping, body piercing, pot-smoking drag queens, environmental correctness, Judgment Day, Samuel Beckett, Newt Gingrich, Coco Chanel, Sigmund Freud - nothing and no one has been spared Bob Smith's incisive eye in this very human collection of comic essays - from a writer who knows how to serve up a truly fresh slice of American pie.
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- PublisherHarper Paperbacks
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0380732009
- ISBN 13 9780380732005
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages278
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