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Kathy Griffin isn't shy. The comedian and host of her own Bravo reality show, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, is known for off-color remarks and self-deprecating humor. Her tell-all memoir, Official Book Club Selection - brazenly named, Griffin says, in hopes that Oprah will pick it for her book club or at the very least invite Griffin onto the show - catalogs the outrageous redhead's decades-long struggle to make it in Hollywood, her slow climb to the middle and all the claw marks she left along the way. Griffin talks to TIME about...
...whole section of the book is dedicated to a horrific liposuction experience, complete with photos. You could have literally died from the botched procedure, but then you admit to doing it again. Why did you get liposuction the second time? I have a lot of shame about that. The second time I had plastic surgery, I got it done for free. People was covering it, and I met a team of doctors that had a publicist who kept adding procedures. The guy who did my LASIK surgery wanted to do a "tune-up," and now I've had five surgeries...
...your book, you reprint an entire series of e-mail exchanges with Apple founder Steve Wozniak. In one of the e-mails, he mentions that he has rented My Life on the D-List on DVD. Is it weird to go on a date with a guy who has seen your reality show? That's what you think is the weirdest part of me going on a date with Steve Wozniak...
...single-payer is one position; the present system is another position. What we’re advocating with the public option is the compromise,” he told the mostly middle-aged and elderly Cambridge-area crowd at the First Parish Church at an event sponsored by Harvard Book Store. “We’re not going to compromise anymore because that is the compromise already.” Though he avoided calling out the White House as spineless for suggesting compromise, he joked that some “spinal transplants” that he had performed...
...20th century, H.G. Wells imagined a war of the worlds in which alien invaders left the capital city of the world's greatest empire in ruins," Ferguson says as he searches through the bombed ruins of an ancient castle. "Most people think of his book as a work of science fiction. In fact, it was a work of astonishing prescience...