Christine Lahti
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"This collection captures, in writing, the same array of emotions that Christine brings to the stage and screen with her acting. Funny with heart. Tears with a hint of hope. A fantastic mosaic that, when cobbled together, offers a stirring range of humanity." - Alan Zweibel, original SNL writer and Thurber Prize winning author of The Other Shulman
"Christine Lahti's autobiographical essays are a beautiful, painful, funny, fiercely honest walk through...
2) The Steps
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An uptight New Yorker and his party girl sister visit their Dad's lake house to meet his new wife, and her rough-around-the-edges kids. When the "step" parents announce they are also adopting a child to bring this family together, disaster looms in this hilarious new chemistry experiment.
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Charlotte Bain (Christine Lahti, The Doctor, Swing Shift) is the perfect high school principal for small-town Texas: quiet, strict, strait-laced. Single, but secretly dating the coach (William Russ, Pastime), she is as shocked as anyone when she agrees to go on a date with Ernesto (Ruben Blades, Predator 2, The Super), the school's new janitor. More shocking still, Charlotte and Ernesto find themselves suddenly, unbelievably happy-so on their date...
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A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit and a landmark in the literature of the Holocaust, this is the true story of Dr. Gisella Perl who, while imprisoned in a concentration camp, became an eyewitness to the experiments of Dr. Josef Mengele, the chief physician at Auschwitz.