For those who first encountered Billy Crystal in the 1989 film When Harry Met Sally or who, like me, go back even further, to the Seventies, when he daringly played one of the first gay characters on mainstream television in the U.S. sitcom Soap, here is a book to make us feel old. But that's OK, because it's a book about feeling old. The first wave of the so-called baby-boomers are now the age their grandparents were when they were born, if not older. He can see, just by watching them trudging around the local shopping mall, that some of his contemporaries have given up on life. 'Poor guys, they have no shoulders. They're just following their wives...getting excited only when they can have a new front door key made at the locksmith kiosk.'67-year-old Billy Crystal's autobiography is stuffed with tales of celebritiesBrian Viner says the book is warm-hearted and occasionally hilariousCrystal reflects on the ageing process and the prospect of death
When, as star and producer of the film City Slickers, _ invited Charles Bronson to consider playing a veteran cowboy, the famous tough-guy actor phoned him, barely able to contain his fury.