Book : Rickles Book A Memoir - Rickles, Don

-Titulo Original : Rickles Book A Memoir

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Simon & Schuster

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Rickles Book will make you love one of the great Americans of our time, Don Rickles.Why you need to buy Rickles Book immediately: Rickles Book will help you win friends and influence people. Rickles Book will introduce you to all of his famous friends, from Frank Sinatra to Johnny Carson. Rickles Book will help you lose weight. Rickles Book will help you gain weight. Rickles Book will improve your love life. Rickles Book will make you cry (If your love life doesnt improve). Rickles Book will make you laugh (If your love life does improve). Rickles Book will make you love one of the great Americans of our time, Don Rickles. Rickles Book will give you something to talk about at parties (If youre ever invited to parties). Rickles Book, along with the Bible and War and Peace, will grace your bookshelf and upgrade your literary status. Rickles Book will keep you up at night. Rickles Book will put you to sleep at night. Rickles Book will make you rich (If you treasure great humor). Review What a terrific book. Honest, funny, down-to-earth. A helluva read. -- Larry King About the Author Don Rickles is looking for his first big break in show business. If you have a gig for him, contact his agent (as soon as he gets one).David Ritz is a songwriter who has collaborated with stars like Janet Jackson and Marvin Gaye, as well as a renowned ghostwriter who has authored more than fifty books for some of the biggest stars in music: Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Lenny Kravitz, Joe Perry, Smokey Robinson, Don Rickles, and Willie Nelson, to name a few. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Essence, People, Art Connoisseur, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles with Roberta, his wife of nearly fifty years. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Rickles BookA MemoirBy Don RicklesSimon & SchusterCopyright © 2008 Don RicklesAll right reserved.ISBN: 9780743293068All HeartJackson Heights, Queens, was no special place, but my dad, Max, was a special guy. Heres the kind of guy he was: If he was your friend and came over to your house and your wife was in a housecoat, he could hug her and you wouldnt think twice. There was nothing distasteful about Max S. Rickles. (I never knew what the S. stood for, and neither did he.) Everyone loved my dad. The man was all heart.Best of all, he laughed at my humor.He was an insurance salesman who provided for my mother and me, the only child. We werent rich, but we werent poor. We just were. We lived in a plain apartment like a million other apartments you see in New York Citys five boroughs.Dad had a lighthearted attitude about life. He took it the way it came. He was the guy who taught me all I know about car repairs: Pay someone to do it for you.Wed be sitting in our tired old Ford, the engine dead as a doornail. Dad would see someone he knew from our building.Charlie, hed say, heres a couple of bucks. Make the car start.He also taught me all I know about home repairs.Heres how that worked:Mom wants to hang a picture.Max offers the janitor, the mailman -- anyone whos around -- a couple of bucks to bang a nail in the wall. No one ever takes the money -- they like Max too much -- except the janitor, whos mad because he has to live in the basement.Max Rickles was a giving sort of man, but sometimes giving isnt as simple as it seems. Ill give examples:We belonged to a little Orthodox synagogue in Jackson Heights, where Dad was an important member. Once he was even president of the congregation. He loved the congregation and fussed over its finances. It was not a wealthy group and the building required maintenance. On the High Holy Days, Dad would escort me and my cousin Allen, who later became a fine doctor, to prime seats near the altar. It turned out to be a land-lease deal. Ten minutes before the start of services, Dad would move us ten rows back. Five minutes lat