Rickles' Letters

Rickles' Letters
by Don Rickles

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Author: Don Rickles
Contributor: David Ritz
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-11
ISBN: 1416596631
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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ISBN13: 9781416596639
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Review: A VERY SAD BOOK FROM AN EXCELLENT TALENT
Summary: 1 Stars

I saw Don Rickles live several decades ago at the Westbury Music Fair. He cracked everyone up with his quick wit and talent. Ever since that time I've watched and enjoyed him often. He was even quite funny recently on one of Jay Leno's last Tonight shows (despite his obvious signs of aging and slowing down). I don't know what he and his co-author tried to accomplish with this book. It was not funny at all. I thought to myself, "does Rickles need the money that badly?" Even his "hockey puck" style insults fell flat. The letters are not real, and Rickles had to explain in the text of each letter who this person is (or was) by saying, for example, "you were great when you directed so-and-so". It doesn't take a student of comedy to observe that the crux of Rickle's humor is in his staccato of perfectly timed misanthropy. People find that his extemporaneous delivery is twice as funny because they're not the butt of his jokes (seasickness is a riot when someone else has it). When Rickles commits this shtick to paper it's a dud.
I've enjoyed several of Groucho Marx's and Steve Allen's books a hundred times more than I did this book (Marx and Allen were truly "men of letters"). 'Sorry, Don, your book is a waste of time and money. I should have bought one of your CD's.

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Summary of Rickles' Letters

Along with collected letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Jefferson and Wendell Willkie, Rickles' Letters illustrates the power of eloquent correspondence and offers universal wisdom for the ages. For example:

RICKLES TO MRS. LINCOLN: "Sorry you had problems at Ford's Theatre last night, but could you get me a couple of aisle tickets for the Saturday matinee?"

RICKLES TO ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: "Lose the cigar. It's hard enough to understand you without it."

RICKLES TO CLINT EASTWOOD: "How many guys could do a movie about Iwo Jima from the Japanese point of view? I got nervous; I thought you were going to let them win!"

RICKLES TO SANTA CLAUS: "Kiss my jingle bells."

RICKLES TO PRESIDENT CARTER: "Forget your hammers and nails and Habitat House and read my book."

RICKLES TO QUEEN ELIZABETH: "Is it true your husband has a day job working at a sword factory?"

RICKLES TO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "Cousin Herbie was doing great selling candles until you came up with the stupid idea of flying a kite."

RICKLES TO MAYOR BLOOMBERG: "What do I have to do to get a cab around here?"

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