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Freaky friday book mary rodgers5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “Hal was born clasping a list of people he wanted to meet. “Daddy may even have been my main selling point,” she muses. She died of heart failure on Jat the age 83. Freaky Friday was adapted into a movie starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster in 1976 and a remake movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in 2003. As for Mummy, she “wouldn’t get down on her knees to play with us because she’d then have to send her pants to be pressed.” It makes sense that Rodgers proposed titling her memoir “What Do You Really Think?” (Green confides this in one of the footnotes that form a lively running counterpoint to her first-person narrative.) She gleefully skewers frenemies like playwright Arthur Laurents, and she’s equally forthright (if less nasty) about lifelong friends like producer-director Hal Prince, to whom she was “practically engaged” when he was an ambitious undergraduate. She wrote childrens books including Freaky Friday, A Billion for Boris, The Rotten Book, and Summer Switch. Looking at a photograph of her father smiling fondly at her 3-year-old self, she wonders, “Where did that nice man go?” Hypercritical Daddy disliked her broad smile, winced at her loud laugh and frequently told her she was fat, Rodgers remembers. About the Book A truly funny story about a (13-year-old) girl who awakens one morning in her mothers body, and-during an incredible day of revelation and. ![]() Blunt candor is a Rodgers operating principle, beginning with what she has to say about her parents. ![]()
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