Well, Hello! Welcome to My Book Club!

Favorite moment so far? Chapter One, page 10:

"Jim got me poster deals with the men who did Farrah Fawcett's bestselling poster. Mine was also a best selling poster. Jim was killed in a car crash."

Richard Thomas is one of the most powerful men in Hollywood? Who knew?

I'd rather read Barbara Dickson's autobiography and hear how she had to put over "I Know Him So Well" with shrimpy Elaine Paige caterwauling in her ear.

Brenda is extremely discreet. She identifies her boyfriend, Mike Nader and how Mike Nader was an alcoholic. . . and that he met a woman (while he was dating Brenda) and hadan affair with her. He proceeds to get this woman pregnant and marry her. And Brenda proceeds to share the news, of course, that he met this other woman at Alcoholics Anonymous. . .apparently not understanding what "Anonymous" means

Chapter 10 page 30:

"He (Mike Nader) told me the fabulous news. He had been offered a job opposite Alexis Colby on Dynasty. Yippie!"

She apparently thinks Alexis is a real person. And that Yippee is a pie.

R4 I thought Michael Nader was gay for sure.

Does anyone remember seeing Brendan’s poster on any friend’s walls? Or in a dumpster even?

R7 again... *Brendad’s poster. Fuck you autoincorrect!

From the jacket copy (for real): "The book has fabulous and stunning Hollywood colour photographs taken by top photographers, including her best selling posters."

Apparently, she sold one or two at a Spencer's Gifts in Boise.

R29 So her photographers are best selling posters?

The posters were all black light psychedelic things that sold in malls

It goes for $200 on ebay!!

I’m the one who baught it on Kendall, so I can’t provide page nombbers, but I liked this:

[quote]Just focus on getting to the toilet, Brenda,” my mind tries to calm me.

Wouldn’t her mind be trying to calm her mind? How many minds does she have?

You beat me to it! I was going to proclaim, "Best Line in Chapter One". . .TA-DA!. . ."Just focus on getting to the toilet, Brenda."

"How many minds does she have?"

Several. And they all look like they're 23!

[quote]Barry Goldwater, Jr., was an entirely different matter. My mother was very classy and sexy. She put me in a sleeveless, high-necked, body-hugging knit. It was an ivory, A-line dress that fit to perfection. A deep hot pink hat, and beige shoes

Here’s your one chance, Brendad. Don’t let me down!

On Daddy’s hot bod:

[quote]My father looked like Mike. He had black hair, similar features, and a beautiful body, similar to Mike’s.

"I'm selling this virgin to the highest bidder!"

Ok, I just bought it in Kindle.

You bitches are bad influences on me.

OP, what did you think of the descriptions of every room in Rockingham House? It was almost as though a gayling with an IQ of 83 had tried to rewrite Swann’s Way for an audience of Tasteful Friends. So beyotiful!

[quote]There was a huge bedroom upstairs with a hot pink canopy bed. In the inside ceiling of the canopy was a large floral print of burgundy and hot pink tulips with lime green leaves, on a white polished cotton background. The walls were padded in hot pink linen fabric; there were dark wood floors and French doors going out to a balcony overlooking the English gardens. The bathroom was a great big hexagonal Jacuzzi room with two closets on each side of it. A huge oversized Jacuzzi was in the middle of the room, raised up by black granite, surrounded by a white Carrera marble floor with a black granite border. The dome-shaped high ceiling was all finely finished, dark wood, with a huge chandelier over the tub. There was a large gold sink with all-gold fixtures, a black granite top in this extraordinary hexagonal room. This room, the bedroom, the kitchen, and the Jacuzzi/ dressing room were all additions we built on to the Rockingham house.

Thank you, r19. I’m climbing Amazon’s sail’s charts because of you!

Step aside, Jake A. Rolling.

"OP, what did you think of the descriptions of every room in Rockingham House?"

I had to skip it. It went on and on, like someone trying to write an Architectural Digest piece without knowing anything about design. Or grammar. It was painful.

Questions for Dishcousin: Chapter One

1.) Brenda explicitly lets us into her experience of being fired. Have you ever had to tell yourself. "Just focus on getting to the toilet?" What were the circumstances in your life which brought you to that moment? Did YOU make it to the toilet? Well? Did you?

2.) When Brenda inexplicablably darts along some strange timeline--being fired, a rambling dissertation about her house in Beverly Hills and the famous neighbors to whose parties we can assume she was not invited--and then to her time acting in a play, before she was fired from The Young abd the Restless, did you think her mental hopskopping across a landscape of memories evocative of Proust. . .or did you think she was bat-shit crazy? Explain in haiku.

3.) Do you think Brenda understands that alcoholics who attend Alcoholics Anonymous are alcoholics who prefer to be anonymous?

4.) Bonus Question: In the Introduction, Dickson (a modern-day Dickens, if you will) tempts us of tales to come. One of these is about a man she dated, ". . .the famous upscale clothing retailer, Fred Segal, now a publicly traded company." Have YOU ever dated a publicly-traded company?

5.) If you were to hop in a time machine and travel back in time, would you be more likely to find a Brenda Dickson poster on the wall of a teen heterosexual or a young gayling?

6.) Just how many times did her agent, who she tells us she was close to, die?

7.) Grab a pencil. On this paper, draw a crowd. Now, try to find someone in that crowd who may be a proofreader. How would you explain what you have read so far and how that proofreader couid have helped Ms. Dickson?

Qwestion 2# my answer:

French antiqwities

Too valuble to leave

The country of France

****

Oversized tables

Finely carved wallnut armwahr

With shell carved on top

****

18th century

18th century anteeks

18th century

****

Real gold five feet high

Most elegent I’ve seen

45k, bitch

****

So many Miro’s

The colorful dead artest

With many colors

****

Lee Roy Nieman’s too

Also very colorful

My art collectsion

****

My eye for detail

Evokes Marcelle Proose, who was

My understudy

Yet another Sunset Boulevard lady - living in the long past...….

You win the extra macaron. R24! Genius!

[quote] like the guy who played John Boy on The Waltons!

What? He's been accused? First I heard this.

Serial Monticello - you are as mentally ill as Ms Dickson. No wonder your family had you committed you freak.

Does dumb dylan know that brenda used to play jill?

[quote]It goes for $200 on ebay!!

The poster or the actual poontang?

On [italic]Welcome to My Home[quote]:

[quote]I wrote it in one night, put the dialogue on cue cards, and filmed it the following day. This video would change the face of television, as we all know it. It would change the trend of jeans and t-shirts to glamorous out of this world Red Carpet looks, as all the professionals were aware of the huge immediate audience response to Welcome to My Home.

Oops

Dumb Dylan got the scoop on what repeat is being shown this coming Friday. Dumb Dylan is right there with the latest scoops. He and Brendad together have almost have an eighth of a brain between them.

R31 That bitch is so delusional. The only award she has ever won was a Soap Opera Digest award for Best Villainess back in 1988. She likes to lie and say it's a lifetime achievement award.

[quote]"Jim got me poster deals with the men who did Farrah Fawcett's bestselling poster. Mine was also a best selling poster. Jim was killed in a car crash."

This sounds exactly like the kind of thing you find on r/oldpeoplefacebook.

Brendad discovers the quotation mark and falls in love with it:

[quote]When they are just motivated to make money and they are a “Clique,” the judges stand to make money from this “Clique.” All hell breaks loose. I call them the “Rats.” It is actually “Mafia,” Organized Crime. In Los Angeles, they have been referred to as “The Westside Mafia,” a group of attorneys who act the same way. The “Mafia” is definitely in my life, and have been with my “Blacklisting” in 1988.

I have this book....bought it hardcover for a buck. I'm gonna find it in my boxes of books and dust it off to read.

I think I bought my copy of her book in the 50 cents bin. It was overpriced, I thought.

R345 from the Brendad Ickson Melting Down Over Election thread...

You are a god among men. Not as god-like as Brendad's prublicly traded boyfriend, but a god nonetheless.

I tried to read it. It is incomprehensible.

I tried to read it. It is incomprehensible.

I bought it... noted at R19... it [italic]is incomprehensible except the part about how she really doesn't like Bill Bell.

Doesn’t the crazy whacko claim that Bill Bell stolded her money?

Why Kay!

You do look worse today!

[quote]So, back to the suite at the Plaza Hotel. I had my Johnnie Cochran imitation. I would put my nylons over my head, and cover up to my eyes. Then, I would jump out of the closet doing my Johnnie Cochran imitation. Nude, with just the nylons over my head! I would say, “Does this look like a disguise?

She.... what with the pantyhose?

Welcome to my hotel room!

so not only a deplorable but racist too

Look, I think she's a cunt, but putting pantyhose over her head and making fun of Johnnie Cochran sounds harmless enough to me!

She's babbling again, that miserable TRAMP!

I'm still dead bitches!

I am the new and the real Katherine Shepherd Reynolds Chancellor Thurston Sterling Murphy!

Who ARE you talking about?

Monticello Serial Psycho is monitoring us.

Oh, great. The soap fans have invaded the Bren-dad threads.

Ah. Thank you, R54, I was wondering.

Well, that's all right, they probably know all kinds of trashy things about Brendad and her world-famous publicly traded luvahs.

Serial Asshole Monticello is mentally ILL.

What the Hell is the backstory between Monticello and Spicen? Reminds me of the feud on CDAN between that stupid cunt Tricia and Derek.

R57 I don't know, but I wish these crazy fuckers would fuck the entire way off the fucking planet, because they've all but destroyed the experience of visiting the threads here.

Serial Monticello is a mentally ill idiot (much like Brendad) who fell in love with Spicen. Spicen rejected him. That sent Serial Monticello into a tailspin from which he never recovered. His own family had him committed to a mental institution. It got messy. Even Brendad commented about this on Facebook.

Are they soap opera fans/watchers? Is that the connection to Brendad's book club?

Brenda has no obligation to keep the identity of an AA member anonymous. Her bf who told her about the woman he met there is the person who violated the confidence of his fellow recovering alcoholics.

"Brenda has no obligation to keep the identity of an AA member anonymous."

It's never anyone's place to share information of that nature. Get some decency, you oversharing, privacy-invading cunt! (AKA Brenda.)

Is Brendad mentally delayed? Serious question. I didn’t know her before reading about her on DL and after looking her up I really think she’s a cerebrectomy survivor.

Brendad is schizo. Koo koo. Cray cray.

It’s weird. In her heyday she would have had to learn pages of script, fast now she seems barely literate. Can you read but not spell?

Bill Daily of Bob Newhart was dyslexic and said he had an awful time learning lines and really struggled as the cast didn't like to rehearse. Bob felt it killed the spontaneity but Bill said he would get so worked up trying to learn lines that he would come out with jumble in takes. He apparently once walked in and said 'Hi Bob, Hi Enema' rather than Emily. I would think a soap gig would be a nightmare for a dyslexic.

[quote]The bathroom was a great big hexagonal Jacuzzi room with two closets on each side of it.

Ok, who wrote this shit? It clearly wasn't Brendad, since I'm sure she has no idea what "hexagonal" means .

This would have been epic if Deven Green read the audiobook!

[quote]R10 [italic] The walls were padded in hot pink linen fabric”

As opposed to linen paneling... or linen plaster.

More, please!

R34 She did actually get a “Lifetime achievement award,” but it was from that guy whose Oscar parties she’s always bragging about attending. She and a few other has-beens were given this “award.” She flooded her FB with photos of the celebration a year or so ago.

She is such a trumper. Sue everyone and never win. Always a victim. Can never take responsibility for anything. Everyone is always out to get her.

She clearly meant "bok cloob."

So young looking.

amazing!

^^ Her head appears to be floating in front of the rest of her body. ^^

[quote]I am the new and the real Katherine Shepherd Reynolds Chancellor Thurston Sterling Murphy!

Who looks like Evie Harris.

"Her head appears to be floating in front of the rest of her body.:

My neck has been replaced by a HDTV wall mount!

Bredna is fabolous! So young and frish lookng.

I know people who have worked with her. She is a GINORMOUS cunt.

Those people must be very old, R80. She hasn't worked in about 40 years.