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Without sparing the embarrassing details, Balbirer chronicles the two decades she spent as a struggling actress in the trenches of show business. From your searing purist tutelage of David Mamet at NYU Crisis College ("In show business, women who are fortunate to find job are asked to do only a couple of things in every role they ever play: take your tee shirt off and cry") to her bizarre 1 AM Saturday Night time Live audition for Lorne Michaels, Balbirer recounts her sometimes disappointing, sometimes unpleasant, and always bizarre ventures. Among the stories in Take Your Shirt Off and Cry is "Friendly Fireplace," which is approximately Nancy's camaraderie and eventual falling out in clumps with a buddy who continued to become a huge celebrity with a top-rated sitcom. Popularity may not have knocked on her behalf door, but it certainly slept on her behalf couch. Take Your Shirt Off and Cry can be an utterly engaging, deeply personal, and absurdly comic memoir from a one-of-a-kind skill.
