Big Read Brochure

Read, Laugh, & Learn Thursday, Dec. 4th 6:00 pm: Meet and Greet 7:30: Zweibel Program

T HURSDAY

Dec 4th

THE BIG READ! THE OTHER SHULMAN

BY ALAN ZWEIBEL Become a Sponsor: $100 Meet, Greet, Shmooze, Eat, Drink, Receive a Signed Book with Alan Zweibel

Attend the Program Only: $18 Non-members: $25

Who is Alan Zweibel?

• Born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, Zweibel grew up in the New York City suburbs of Wantagh and Woodmere on Long Island • After college, Zweibel wrote for stand-up comedians for $7 a joke.

• During his five years at SNL (1975–1980), Zweibel wrote many memorable sketches including the Samurai for John Belushi, and helped to create the characters of Roseanne Roseannadanna and Emily Litella, both played by Gilda Radner.

• His humor has appeared in such diverse publications as Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Op-Ed Page, The Huffington Post, and Mad Magazine.

• Alan Zweibel and Dave Barry collaborated to write the novel Lunatics. Universal Pictures acquired Lunatics to produce as a film that will star Steve Carell.

• Zweibel's work has appeared both on and off Broadway. On Broadway, he cowrote Fame Becomes Me with Martin Short and collaborated with Billy Crystal on the Tony Award-winning production of 700 Sundays.

What is The Other Shulman about?

• Winner of the James Thurber Prize for American Humor.

• Shulman, a chubby, middle-aged stationery-store owner from New Jersey, has always claimed that he’s been gaining and losing the same thirty-five pounds since junior high–and that if you added all of that discarded weight together, he had lost an entire person. Another Shulman.

• This has been just a joke until, at a crossroads marked by overwhelming marital and business stress, he actually encounters this Other Shulman–an incredibly successful man who’s made life and career choices that Shulman has spurned.

• Shulman decides to get into shape by running in the NYC Marathon.

• In 26.2 chapters, one for each mile of the marathon, The Other Shulman is a hilarious tale of identity and aspiration from one of America’s best-known comic writers.

Original “Saturday Night Live” writer Alan Zweibel: “We didn`t even know what rules we were breaking.”

with Billy Crystal & wives

with Gilda Radner

with Mario Cantone

with David Steinberg, Larry David, & Martin Short writing

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Please mail or bring this form with your check to: Temple Sinai, 425 Roslyn Rd, Roslyn Hts, NY 11577 Call for more information: 516-621-6800 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Join Us: Shulman ran the marathon: 26.2 miles—We are walking 1.2 miles.

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Sunday Sinai Walks: Sundays at 8:30 am -- Sept 28, Oct 5, 12, 19 – 1.2 mile walk in the

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Sinai Walks Across the Brooklyn Bridge: Sunday, Oct 26 at 11 am -- Meet at the Bridge,

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neighborhood.

Brooklyn side -- One mile each way.

Book Discussion: Thursday, Nov 13, 7:30 pm at the Temple