It's Always Something
Gilda Radner
Harper Paperbacks
<span>"I had wanted to wrap 
this book up in a neat little package. I wanted a perfect ending. Now 
I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories 
don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end."The world fondly 
remembers the many faces of Gilda Radner: the adamant but misinformed 
Emily Litella; the hyperkinetic Girl Scout Judy Miller; the 
irrepressibly nerdy Lisa Loopner; the gross-out queen of local network 
news, Rosanne Rosannadanna. A supremely funny performer, Gilda lost a 
long and painful struggle in May 1989 to "the most unfunny thing in the 
world"--cancer. But the face she showed the world during this dark time 
was one of great courage and hope. "It's Always Something is the story 
of her struggle told in Gilda's own remarkable words--a personal 
chronicle of strength and indomitable spirit and love undiminished by 
the cruel ravages of disease.<br><br>This is Gilda, with whom we laughed
 on Saturday Night Live: warm, big-hearted, outrageous, and real. This 
is Gilda's last gift to us: the magnificent final performance of an 
incomparable entertainer whose life, though tragically brief, enriched 
our own lives beyond measure.</span>