And the Show Goes On

AND THE SHOW GOES ON

From Booklist: Actor-director-producer Leonard has a real gift for storytelling that he displays to the fullest in a breezy readable memoir of his life in show business. Starting out as an actor in 1930s New York in such forgotten hit plays as ÊHotel Alimony Fly Away HomeÊ and ÊKiss the Boys GoodbyeÊ Leonard had the foresight and financial need to leap first to radio and movies then to television in which he created or produced such rerun perennials as ÊMake Room for Daddy The Andy Griffith ShowÊ and the controversial (for its time) ÊI SpyÊ. Along the way Leonard met lots and lots of fascinating people--John Garfield Jack Benny Danny Thomas Carl Reiner and Bill Cosby to mention a few of the dozens about whom Leonard has a funny story or three to tell. Some of these stories are well known such as those of the closeness of the writers actors and staff of ÊThe Dick Van Dyke ShowÊ; others are not such as those of Leonard''s various sometimes dangerous adventures around the world while filming ÊI SpyÊ. äJack Helbig