It's Always Something (32 page)
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Authors: Gilda Radner
Note: A compelling look at the early days of breast cancer, development of treatment and the advocacy movement, a basic read in looking at cancer as big business.
Taylor, T., and Thompson, P.
The Cancer Monologue Project.
San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2002.
Note: Stories told by people in the cancer trenches: to some a fight, to some not, but always moving and incisive.
Wilber, K.
Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber.
Boston & London: Shambhala, 1993.
Note: A hugely detailed, fascinating love story that endures before, during and after cancer.
The Radner family (Gilda, Henrietta, Herman and Michael) pose for a photographer in Florida in 1949.
My dad and I dancing at my brother’s bar mitzvah in October of 1954. I’m eight years old, and my dad is the love of my life.
This is the ten-year-old hefty camp-cowgirl version of Gilda.
By sweet sixteen, I’d already tried every diet in the world.
I graduated from the Liggett School in June of 1964. This picture was in the yearbook.
In 1971, I was earning sixty dollars a week doing pantomimes for kids in Toronto, Ontario, elementary schools.
Still a clown in 1972 (that’s me in the bottom row on the left), but this time in my first professional job—the Toronto company of the musical
Godspell
.
Long before our television careers, Eugene Levy and I improvised at Toronto’s Second City.
This is a publicity photo for
The National Lampoon Show.
It was taken in New York in 1974. Harold Ramis and John Belushi are holding me up.
Dibby and I having a nice visit after lunch. She let me try on her new silver-gray wig.
The 1976 Not Ready for Prime Time Players of “Saturday Night Live.”
Scavullo photographed me for the cover of
Rolling Stone
. Detroit girl makes good.
I had always dreamed of being on Broadway. In 1979, I was dancing across the Winter Garden Theatre’s billboard—as long as a whole city block.