I Was Better Last Night by Harvey Fierstein

I Was Better Last Night by Harvey Fierstein

A revealing, poignant, and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award winner.

Harvey Fierstein's legendary career has transported him from community theater in Brooklyn, to the lights of Broadway, to the absurd excesses of Hollywood and back. He's received accolades and awards for acting in and/or writing an incredible string of hit plays, films, and TV shows: Hairspray, Fiddler on the Roof, Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day, Cheers, La Cage Aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy, Newsies, and Kinky Boots. While he has never shied away from the spotlight, Mr. Fierstein says that even those closest to him have never heard most of the tales--of personal struggles and conflict, of sex and romance, of his fabled career--revealed in these wildly entertaining pages.

I Was Better Last Night bares the inner life of this eccentric nonconforming child from his roots in 1952 Brooklyn, to the experimental worlds of Andy Warhol and the Theatre of the Ridiculous, to the gay rights movements of the seventies and the tumultuous AIDS crisis of the eighties, through decades of addiction, despair, and ultimate triumph.

Mr. Fierstein's candid recollections provide a rich window into downtown New York City life, gay culture, and the evolution of theater (of which he has been a defining figure), as well as a moving account of his family's journey of acceptance. I Was Better Last Night is filled with wisdom gained, mistakes made, and stories that come together to describe an astonishingly colorful and meaningful life. Lucky for us all, his unique and recognizable voice is as engaging, outrageously funny, and vulnerable on the page.

Harvey Fierstein is a Tony Award-winning playwright, actor, and homosexual rights activist who has won four Tony Awards. He won two Tony Awards in 1983 for writing and performing in Torch Song Trilogy, a third Tony in 1984 for writing La Cage aux Folles, and a fourth in 2003 for Best Actor in Hairspray. He is best known to moviegoers for his scene-stealing antics in Mrs. He played Mulan's soldier sidekick in Disney's Mulan, and contributed his signature gravelly voice to Doubtfire and Independence Day. He's appeared in a number of TV shows, including an Emmy-nominated episode of Cheers and a famous episode of The Simpsons as Homer's helper, Karl.

From the Emmy-winning Elmo Saves Christmas, children know him as the Easter Bunny. Harvey also penned the book for Kinky Boots, which received the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2013.

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ISBN 13	9780593320525
ISBN 10	0593320522
Title	I Was Better Last Night
Author	Harvey Fierstein
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2022-03-01
Number of pages	400
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