All My Best Friends

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Beorge Burns's career spanned the history of modern show business; he starred in big-time vaudeville; in radio, television, the movies and the recording industry; and on the nightclub stage. All My Best Friends is history of modern show business, as George Burns lived it. More than that, it is the backstage story of the people who made that history. They were all his best friends: JOlson and Jessel and Cantor and Durante; the Marx Brothers and the Ritz Brothers; Ed Wynn, Sophie Tucker and Fanny Brice; Walter Matthau, Carol Channing, Bobby Darin, Ann-Margret and Brooke Shields. And most of all, Jack Benny.

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Section 2
63
Section 3
63
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About the author (1989)

David Fisher collaborated with baseball umpire Ron Luciano on his two best sellers. Both "The Umpire Strides Back" & "Strike Two" were "New York Times" best sellers. "Umpire" was excerpted two consecutive weeks by "Sports Illustrated", the first time that magazine ever did so. Fisher also collaborated with baseball manager Tommy Lasorda on his best selling autobiography "The Artful Dodger", as well as with San Diego Chargers former owner Gene Klein on the extremely well-reviewed football story, "First Down & a Billion". He also wrote the recent "New York Times" best sellers "Been There, Done That" with Eddie Fisher and "Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man" with William Shatner.

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