Collect this When Harry Met Sally script signed by Billy Crystal!
Tony® and Emmy Award®-winning comedian, actor, producer, writer and director Billy Crystal is known to audiences around the world as the star of such feature films as When Harry Met Sally..., City Slickers and Analyze This; as a cast member of NBC’s Saturday Night Live; and as the acclaimed nine- time host of the Academy Awards®.
Crystal landed his first major television role in 1977 on the comedy series Soap, playing Jodie Dallas, one of the first openly gay characters on TV. In 1984 he hosted Saturday Night Live and a few months later joined the regular cast. His best-known SNL creations were Fernando, an unctuous talk-show host whose tagline, “You look mahvelous!” entered the popular lexicon, and Willie the Masochist who along with his partner Christopher Guest would hurt themselves and then claim, “I hate when that happens.” His work on SNL would earn him his first Emmy nomination.
Crystal’s many feature-film credits include the buddy cop comedy Running Scared with Gregory Hines (1986), Rob Reiner’s comic fairy tale The Princess Bride (1987) Danny DeVito’s dark comedy Throw Momma from the Train (1987) America’s Sweethearts with Julia Roberts, Mr. Saturday Night which he also co’wrote and directed, and Deconstructing Harry with Woody Allen. Crystal was seen on the big screen opposite Bette Midler and Marisa Tomei in the Christmas 2012 family comedy Parental Guidance, which he also produced and this year earned great reviews as an alchoholic Dr. in Standing Up Falling Down. His breakthrough role came in 1989 when he starred opposite Meg Ryan in Reiner’s When Harry Met Sally..., which became a romantic touchstone for a generation of moviegoers.
He is the voice of one eyed Mike Wazowski, in Disney•Pixar’s animated global blockbusters Monsters Inc. and Monsters University. As a director Crystal was nominated for both an Emmy and a Directors Guild Award for his direction of the HBO movie 61*, which told the dramatic story of the 1961 race between Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris to break Babe Ruth’s single-season home-run record. The film earned 12 nominations including Best Movie made for television.
In addition to hosting the Oscars nine times—Crystal has also hosted the GRAMMY® Awards three times. His work as a host, writer and producer has earned him 16 Emmy nominations and five wins. Crystal won a sixth Emmy for his 1989 HBO comedy special, Billy Crystal: Midnight Train to Moscow where he became the first American comedian to perform in the then Soviet Union.
The recipient of the 2007 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Crystal has written five books, including Absolutely Mahvelous (1986), 700 Sundays (2005) and two children’s books, I Already Know I Love You (2004) and Grandpa’s Little One (2006).
In his most recent book, a memoir titled Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? Crystal offers his heartfelt and humorous observations on aging. The book, which was released in September 2013, became an instant New York Times Bestseller, and the audiobook version debuted at number one on iTunes and won the Audio Book of the Year in 2014.
Crystal made his Broadway debut in 2004 with the original production of his one-man show 700 Sundays, for which he won a Tony Award. He lives in Los Angeles and New York with Janice his wife of 50 years.
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