Kelsey Grammer Books

The cat in the hat on this CD, with perfect piano accompaniments at key moments, is just perfect. Could not do better.
I don't like the other stories as much, but that one in itself is worth the purchase.

My kids love Dr. Seuss, I love not having to read to them in the car! Great for trips when you just can't take another row row row your boat. These are all read by actors that Mom and Dad know so it's great for us to hear them reading childrens books.

These stories are really well read! I play them in the car for my 4 and 3 year olds and I even enjoy listening along. I like that they don't have the page turn dings.

My son listens to these over and over with or without the book. He enjoys the narrators and has almost memorized the books.

The children enjoy hearing their favorite Dr. Suess read by the familiar voices we all know.

In my opinion, this is, besides being the most well-known concept of Dr. Seuss, one of the best things he has written save "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" Tis the season of Seuss right now, and as I read this book to my class I was once again enchanted by the sheer awesomeness of this story. The writing has an awesome beat and flow and the pictures are hilarious! Who can not love the banter between Cat and Fish with their surprisingly detailed personalities? Great book for a rainy day.

This is the first book i read to my son that he didn't cry to and listened to the end at only 6 weeks! I'm sure it was just that he was in a good mood though!

When I can, I plan to purchase the entire series of Dr. Seuss books for my child being that his style of poetic prose is so appealing to children. It presents concepts in a way that don't stop to make them "think"; yet encourage a style of their own "brain-storming" that allows them to try to understand how silly chit-chat can become something interesting in a very sensible; yet diverse manner. LLO'C

I have this delightful book in English, Japanese, Spanish, and now in Chinese. Availability in all these languages is magnificent for children for many reasons. It allows children of these linguistic background to enjoy this great book. It is a wonderful attitudinal validation of these languages, especially if read in a school setting where English is the predominant language of instructin. This is valuable for chldren of every linguistic background. It contributes to the appreciation and awareness of these languages. This is so very important for inter-linguistic/cultural harmony and understanding. All of these benefits through a story that is so much fun!!!

The Cat in the Hat is a funny and wacky and crazy book but is definitely for the younger crowd. The author is Dr. Seuss. In this book, he expresses his talent in more ways than you can imagine. The younger crowd is amazed and dazzled at what this book is about. The book is about 2 kids at home all alone on a rainy day. They can't find anything to do. Then, they hear a noise and a hilarious, crazy, and zany cat comes out of nowhere and cheers up the kids with things that the kids did not even think was possible! I would rate this book 5 stars no doubt!

I've seen this movies many times on TV but I had to buy it. Have watched it several times since. Just a good fun movie with lots of humor and great characters.

This is the best thing Kelsey ever did. The sound track is great with The Village People

If Gilligan would have been in the navy, he would have serve in this submarine. The plot is simple; a submarine manned by a wacky crew is send out for experimental maneuvers. The cast play together very well. The result is a very funny comedy.

This movie is a classic. If you like comedies you'll love this one. We have watched it at least a dozen times. Well worth your time to watch.

I have watched this movie several times and find something that I missed the last time. Kelsey Grammer is hilarious in this irreverent spoof on submarine life.

If Gilligan would have been in the navy, he would have serve in this submarine. The plot is simple; a submarine manned by a wacky crew is send out for experimental maneuvers. The cast play together very well. The result is a very funny comedy.

This movie is a classic. If you like comedies you'll love this one. We have watched it at least a dozen times. Well worth your time to watch.

I have watched this movie several times and find something that I missed the last time. Kelsey Grammer is hilarious in this irreverent spoof on submarine life.

This is one of the funniest movies. Laughs at almost every minute. If you're wondering, my #1 is Airplane. This movie stars Kelsey Grammer (Cheers, Fraiser), Lauren Holley, Harry Dean Stanton, Rip Torn (Men in Black 1+2, The Beastmaster, Airplane 1+2)), Bruce Dern, Rob Schneider, and William H. Macy.

The movie is basically about Lt. Dodge (Grammer) who is looking to command a state of the art submarine. He gets the opportunity by proving to his supperior, Admiral Winslow (Torn), by commanding a "relic" submarine with a less than perfect crew in a war game. Along the way is Admiral Graham (Dern) who detests Dodge. Graham belives if he can beat Dodge, he will be in line for another star and outrank Winslow. Along the way, Dodge meets problems with his crew and Graham breathing down his neck.

All this adds up to is hijinks on the open seas and nonstop laughter. The crew is hillarious and Kelsey Grammer proves that he can be funny too.

While it is a bit on the silly side, fine performances by Dern, Holly, Schneider, Grammer, Macy, and Torn make this an enjoyable comedy that will have you cheering for the underdog. Definitely worth watching more than once!

This book is much better than I expected. After seeing all the nice stories and great pictures, it's clear that NBC has been in front of my life more than I realized. I highly recommend this book.

If you're looking for a big, happy coffee table book about what a terrific network NBC is, "Brought to You in Living Color" will meet your needs. If, however, you're expecting actual information (ratings? dates? a comprehensive list of shows? interviews?), as I was, this content-starved book will only make you shake your fist and curse the all-powerful National Broadcasting Network. It's as if the NBC publicity department is offering you a big bowl of jellybeans ... colorful and tempting, to be sure, but ultimately unsatisfying.

Leafing through this gorgeous volume brought back so many memories, I had to buy it. Chico and the Man, Jane Pauley on The Today Show, The Gong Show, Willard Scott with his toupee, Johnny Carson, John Belushi, the Olympics (with Ali bravely holding the torch). Your don't realize how much influence NBC has had in our lives -- making us better at our jobs, making us laugh, exposing us to new places and idea. There's great stuff on new shows as well -- West Wing, Law & Order,etc. Definitely worthwhile for the nostalgia and pictures -- it's quite beautiful book.

This is the definitive look at what NBC has done, and it's all here, from Today to Tonight, and literally everything in between. Whether you're a couch potato or a student of the medium, this is "must" reading!

Brought to You in Living Color: 75 Years of Great Moments in Television and Radio from NBC

BROUGHT TO YOU IN LIVING COLOR is a wealth of knowledge on and about the history of NBC, which is also at once a history of network programming on television and modern entertainment itself. More importantly, Brought to You in Living Color, is everybody's book as it reads like a biography, a tightly researched work of non-fiction, and a memoir as it relays many facts and anectdotes (both funny and touching) about many of the milestones in television.

The book spans from the early days of radio to the current shows on NBC. While telling the story of the network, the book narrates what will likely be the most relevant social history of 20th century America. I strongly recommend this for your personal library,coffee table, or as a gift.

This book started out in similar fashion to the original Cat in the Hat book, but then it turned ugly and a little disturbing.

Once again, the children are left alone, this time responsible for shoveling snow while the mother goes into town. The Cat in the Hat shows up and invites himself in the house, where he makes himself at home by eating cake in the bathtub. When he exits the tub, there is a pink ring that needs to be cleaned up. The cat uses various objects and surfaces in the house to clean the ring, but it eventually winds up outside in the snow.

The Cat enlists the help of other cats that are under his hat to "kill the mess", using pop guns. The more the cats shoot, the more the spots spread. There's an illustration of pink-tinged snow covering the ground, the house, and even a snowman. This picture, coupled with the words "Kill those spots! Kill the mess!", just comes across as a little violent and gory to me.

Just plain weird story. Not a favorite of mine, by any means.

Review by Sherry North, Author, Because You Are My Baby

As a child, I liked The Cat in the Hat Comes Back better than the original. Now my 4-year-old son agrees. He can't get enough of this absurd tale of a bathtub ring that ends up all over the house and yard. The story's imagination is breathtaking, as the cat in the hat reveals 26 more cats in hats atop his head. There's educational value, too, because the 26 little cats are named each letter of the alphabet. The final solution at the end of the story is a bit vague and abrupt, but otherwise it's a fun-filled romp both kids and parents enjoy.

The feline in the big long red and white striped top hat is back again, with his subversive, mischievous ways.

The two kids are bored and doing the crappy yardwork thiing, and with the parental units away, the cat wants to play. Crazy snow stunts, games and fights and dodgy bathroom antics are more fun than works.

This book deserves 5 stars.It is the best Dr.Seuss book I have ever read!It has lots of odd and fun things and uses lots of ryhming.It takes you beyond imagination.I really recomend this book to you.

The Cat In The Hat Comes Back (beginner books) is a great book for children just learning to read. The child is introduced to words that rhyme and the letters of the alphabet. The focus is clearly on children since the entire short story takes place while two young children are left at home while their mother goes "to the town." Moreover, the illustrations are wonderful.

The action begins when the two kids, one boy and one girl, are shoveling snow while their mother runs errands. Naturally, The Cat In The Hat returns to do more mischief and, quite conveniently, set up a story that teaches children the alphabet and rhyming words. After the cat makes a mess in the bathtub we are introduced to all his little helpers who are named from A to Z--great alphabet lesson! The story is made amusing for small children because the pink mess in the tub goes to their mother's dress, the wall and eventually all the snow outside! It's a silly premise; but it'll work for young children just learning to read. They'll like the humor of this.

Of course, Seuss also inserts plenty of words to teach children more vocabulary. Children are introduced to words like cold and warm, fun and done, dig and pig, news and shoes, whose and news--and more! Excellent!

I cannot help but notice that some people felt that the use of guns in the story (they help take away the pink snow mess) might lead children to conclude that guns are "OK." Unfortunately, these people have a good point. Dr. Seuss could have and should have used another method instead of guns to clean away the pink snow mess. I will take off one star for this: I would take off more but the rest of the book is so thoughtfully done that I can't go lower on my rating.

Overall, I recommend The Cat In The Hat Comes Back for parents to use as a tool to help very young children learn to read. The kids will love it; and hopefully some fond memories will be made when you sit down and read this with your children. I also recommend that you mention that guns are bad and maybe add that the guns in this book were special in that they couldn't hurt anybody.

All in all, great job, Dr. Seuss!

What an amazing experience it has been spending the last few days with Kelsey Grammer in my car. The book is written simply and honestly using beautiful language. The story of his life is captivating. I found his story funny and sometimes devastatingly sad. My only complaint about this tape is even the unabridged version is just too short. Well, there is always Frasier (on at midnight) if you want more of Mr. Grammer! Enjoy!

I should mention that my impression of Kelsey Grammer has been vastly dominated by the character he played on the popular sitcom "Frasier". Although not really a sitcom regular, this show has struck a chord with me. There's been something about its main character that has kept me engrossed.

Grammer has played this character for about 20 years. And I've been intrigued by the question who has rubbed off onto whom. How much of the neuroses and obsessions as well as of the learned self of the fictitious character do we find in the actor who portrays him?

Sadly, while Grammer bares his personal life to us, sometimes at length (although it's a quick read), from this book we learn precious little about the true person. What remains is the picture of a guy who likes (or liked) surfing, motorcycling, poems by W H Auden, dogs, and the company of attractive, yet often fatally flawed women. Oh, and his vocation is acting, perhaps spun from a seemingly passing thought as a young boy to do something big at the Lincoln Centre someday.

One cannot help but admire his persistence to pursue a career in a field that can be rewarding as it can be perilous and daunting (not being an actor myself, I take licence to make this assumption). It requires tenacity and gusto for his chosen profession to camp out in Central Park to make ends meet during meagre times on a slim budget. But the driving motivation lying beneath remains somewhat in the dark (until perhaps "...so good" or "...so bad" see the light of day).

Narrative and prose of the book are even, but reveal only skeletal outlines of the persons and events described. Were it not for some of the pictures in the book, most of the people would remain oddly faceless, even the ones the author feels closest with. An exception is Goose, his first dog, who comes to life more than any other character (even Christopher Plummer seems dim and faint by comparison).

One small but important note. It irked me immensly that in one passage Grammer assigned New York the status of a holy city, where, to take the gist of his words, some divine providence has deigned to fulfil man's dreams in this universe. It is this kind of thinking that has brought and continues to bring a lot of hurt into the world.

Perhaps it can be explained by the fact that, at least at the time he penned this book and unlike many other great actors, Grammer hadn't spent much (any?) time working outside his native US. Thus, he may have been unable to get a lasting impression of the irrepressible power of human culture and spirit in so many other places in this fragile world of ours.

My comments pertain to the audio tape version of this book, which I highly recommend. I think Kelsey Grammer's reading helped to paint a better picture than the print version would; hearing his voice added to the character of the stories he told.

Not being a hardcore fan of Frasier or Cheers, I knew very little about Kelsey Grammer, other than that I liked him in those shows. I happened to see the book on tape and thought I'd give it a try. I was not surprised to learn that Mr. Grammer is as introspective and articulate as his popular television persona. It was fun to come along for the ride as he described his early years, and thought-provoking to hear him describe how the tragedies and other events in his life had shaped him as a human being.

All in all, I found the audio version of this autobiography to be compelling and quite worthwhile.

The guy had a pretty tough life, I will give him that. But I really hate when actors take their "craft" too seriously. The guy is a sitcom actor, he is very popular, he has a very hot, very young wife and he should leave it at that. When he gets into all this stuff about acting with a dog, and how the dog is not an actor and he was offended, I wanted to take the pages and wipe my rear with them. I enjoyed the book though for the most part

While this is not the most tightly woven book I have ever read, I always enjoy reading about the life journey and current thoughts of an actor. I especially respect Kelsey Grammer's long run as Frasier Crane.

Though this memoir, we learn of the details of Grammer's life and also his life philosophy. We hear the truth behind the Hollywood gossip. We also hear the heart behind the actor and the character we have come to know from our weekly "visits".

This book and Grammer's work itself taught me a lot about the power of comedy, and how as an actor, comedy is not as easy as it looks... and yes, it is as significant as high drama.

It can be read very quickly - as an actor as well I try to read as much as I can from other actors. This is a book that can be shared and enjoyed by many.