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If you were to put David Sedaris and Glenn O'Brien in a blender and add a dash of New York and Hollywood gossip, you would wind up with Alan Cumming. Described by Time magazine as one of the most fun people in show business, Cumming is a genuine triple-threat as a successful stage, television, and film star whose real-life vivacity, sophisticated wit, and charm tend to match that of his onstage personalities. In his third book, You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams, he has composed a collection of true-life adventures-or rather, misadventures-that is sure to make the reader laugh out loud. This volume recounts the hysterical and sometimes embarrassing encounters that only Cumming could experience, from awkwardly enter- taining Elizabeth Taylor at Carrie Fisher's birthday party to being on a movie set with Helen Mirren and being mocked for wearing Croc sandals to making a friend's day by chasing down Oprah at a glitzy gala for a prized photograph with her. These forty-five stories are humorous novellas, each featuring memo- rable photographs-many simply snapshots taken by Cumming-that document or illustrate the tale told.
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The pictures and stories are intimate, mischievous, funny, and poignant. It's a rare self-portrait by an actor in an era when most are wary of revealing too much. -TOWN & COUNTRY MAGAZINE
..".a fun, heartfelt, adorably catty collection of anecdotes and accompanying photographs from the entertainer's personal and professional life." -EDGE MEDIA NETWORK
"A passion for photography has stayed with Cumming, all his life, and stage, film and television actor, has just released a book of 45 short essays accompanied by his photos." -SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Cumming s delight in life s unexpectedly joyful experiences of which he s had plenty in his fortunate career runs throughout the 45 essays in You ve Gotta Get Bigger Dreams, his third book. . . . Cumming s new book is rife with entertaining anecdotes, as well as personal reflections and at times shrewdly insightful commentary on his adopted country."- SF GATE
"Cumming s witty and incisive essays cover everything from a cross-country road trip with his beloved dog Honey to an unforgettable encounter with Oprah, whose one-line response to one of Cumming s friends became the title of his book." -DAILY FRONT ROW" --Various reviews
The Perries and Zayns of this world could learn a thing or two about the art of the memoir from Alan Cumming, who writes because he has something to say rather than, you know, an album to sell. --Clare Allfree, Metro
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..".a fun, heartfelt, adorably catty collection of anecdotes and accompanying photographs from the entertainer's personal and professional life." -EDGE MEDIA NETWORK
"A passion for photography has stayed with Cumming, all his life, and stage, film and television actor, has just released a book of 45 short essays accompanied by his photos." -SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Cumming s delight in life s unexpectedly joyful experiences of which he s had plenty in his fortunate career runs throughout the 45 essays in You ve Gotta Get Bigger Dreams, his third book. . . . Cumming s new book is rife with entertaining anecdotes, as well as personal reflections and at times shrewdly insightful commentary on his adopted country."- SF GATE
"Cumming s witty and incisive essays cover everything from a cross-country road trip with his beloved dog Honey to an unforgettable encounter with Oprah, whose one-line response to one of Cumming s friends became the title of his book." -DAILY FRONT ROW" --Various reviews
The Perries and Zayns of this world could learn a thing or two about the art of the memoir from Alan Cumming, who writes because he has something to say rather than, you know, an album to sell. --Clare Allfree, Metro
Alan Cumming is an award-winning actor, artist, writer, activist, and man-on-the-scene. He's appeared on the London stage, and on Broadway, hosted his own cable talk show, and is the author of the New York Times bestseller Not My Father's Son: A Memoir and the novel Tommy's Tale.
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