Billy Crystal, Author . Warner $21.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-446-57867-7
Reading the book version of comedian Crystal's Broadway solo show can be initially off-putting. The jokes he uses to warm up his audience (on why Jews eat Chinese food on Sunday nights, his complaints about his circumcision, the nasal...
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Billy Crystal, Author Perigee Books $9.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-399-51246-9
This is a lackluster, feeble autobiography from a rising star who has just reached his peak but has not yet built a substantial career. Crystal, the youngest of three brothers in a Long Island family, seems to have had an uneventful childhood, an...
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Billy Crystal. Holt, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9820-4
Avoiding the trappings—excess schmaltz, laundry list of famous friends, boozy party log—of so many celebrity memoirs, Crystal delivers a funny and genuinely moving chronicle of his life inside and outside Hollywood. The quips come as fast they do in
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Billy Crystal, read by the author. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 8 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-2950-2
If you have to choose between the print and audio editions of Billy Crystal’s memoir, know this: if the book is funny, the audiobook is drive-off-the-road hilarious. It opens with a live performance of the book’s first chapter at New York’s Cantor...
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Billy Crystal, Author, Elizabeth Sayles, Illustrator , illus. by Elizabeth Sayles. HarperCollins $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-059391-9
Comedian Crystal's unabashedly sentimental poem to his first grandchild rather clumsily starts on the opening endpapers, where the verse begins, "I'm waiting to see you in ballet shoes or is it football pads?" and concludes, "I...
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Billy Crystal, Author, Guy Porfirio, Illustrator , illus. by Guy Porfirio. HarperCollins $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-078173-6
Crystal's granddaughter turns a year old in this emotion-charged follow-up to I Already Know I Love You
. "Happy birthday, little sweet one,/ you're one year old today./ I gave you your first piece of cake,/ once Mommy said, 'OK.'
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