MAY 4, 2015 LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, MAY 4, 2015, 1:21 AM
BY VIRGINIA ROHAN
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
BOOKS
WHO: Brad Garrett.
WHAT: Signing “When the Balls Drop: How I Learned to Get Real and Embrace Life’s Second Half.”
WHEN: 7 tonight.
WHERE: Bookends, 211 E. Ridgewood Ave., Ridgewood. 201-445-0726 or book-ends.com.
HOW MUCH: Free with purchase of book ($25).
Brad Garrett once called John Gotti “Mr. Peanut” to his face and lived to tell the tale. He also survived doing a killer impression of Bill Cosby on “Tonight” when Cosby was guest-hosting that show and had specifically told Garrett to avoid that mimicry. And during his years on “Everybody Loves Raymond,” Garrett endured frequent emissions of silent-but-deadly flatulence from a certain co-star — whose identity he now has no problem revealing.
Details about these incidents and many more can be found in Garrett’s new book, “When the Balls Drop: How I Learned to Get Real and Embrace Life’s Second Half,” which he’ll be signing tonight at Bookends in Ridgewood. But the 276-page book is less showbiz tell-all than memoir about what the 6-foot-8 actor and comic has learned along the way to middle age, including how he deals with the indignities of midlife anatomical changes (hence, the book’s title).
“It’s midlife and reflecting back on everything and reflecting forward,” Garrett, on the phone last week, said in that distinctive gravelly, deep-as-it-gets voice. “It’s like a coming-of-age book for the 50s.”
https://www.northjersey.com/arts-and-entertainment/comedy/actor-comedian-muses-on-midlife-1.1324871
