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Prologue 1
The Spring Fiesta or Rites of Passage 10
Hoop Skirt Doctor 46
Rudolph 64
Infidelity Jewelry 84
Fashion = Porn 110
Big Red Riding Hood 126
Mom's on Five 152
Don't Cry for Me Akron, Ohio 170
Confessions of a Cat 190
The Bees 202
Beeeeeep 216
Car Wash 222
Let us Pray 244
Good News and Bad News 258
Acknowledgments 275
Bryan Batt writes a great tribute to his Southern Mom in "She Ain't Heavy, She's My Mother"
It is a universal story about a gay man who has a special place in his heart for the first woman in his life who loves him forever. I will be buying copies for my friends, and family member this Christmas. Great read!
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Posted July 24, 2011
I bought this book for my Mother, who grew up in New Orleans about the same time as the author's Mother. I thought she'd enjoy reading about his Mother's life. Unfortunately, the book is all about Bryan, and his life, not his Mother's. You can't keep an entertainer out of the spotlight too long.
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Posted August 19, 2010
Bryan made it a point to really allow the reader to get to know his mother. He painted pictures of the ups, downs, and family struggles many of the families in New Orleans face. He showed that the city known as the Big Easy was never really easy for the people who felt they were different in any way. Social class and economic class played many a strange role to families in New Orleans. Bryan brought home his picturesque views of growing up in a time when to admit you were different in any way was more then just "coming out of the closet." While reading this book splashes of childhood came flooding back as I personally remembered school plays, church fairs and things that families know are better left unsaid. Gayle Batt is a strong woman with drive and determination to be able to maintain her family through trials, tribulations and the times from the 60s to today.
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Posted July 7, 2010
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This memoir of Bryan Batt's life with his southern belle/steel magnolia of a mother is heartwarming and inspiring. Be warned that there is very little showbusiness except for where it relates to family life- no Jeffrey the movie, no Forbidden Broadway, no Joseph and the Amazing Technocolor Dreamcoat, Sunset Boulevard, Scarlet Pimpernel, or Saturday Night Fever, no Mad Men in between the audition and the premier of season three. Although between the title and Bryan's habit of calling it a "momoir," it's clear where the focus is going to be, I was still a bit surprised when I realized the years of his career between Jeffrey on stage and Beauty and the Beast had been skipped entirely. But put all of that aside and focus on what you will find in this engaging read, meeting the indominable woman who turned a sometimes wild little boy into the "sweet" (her word) man he is today.
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Overview
Gayle Batt is the kind of lady who throws elegant cocktail parties while wearing layers of silk chiffon, dripping pearls, and eight months’ pregnant. She is the kind of woman who says “anyhoo” and calls everyone “Dahlin’” or a special pet name. With hair, makeup, and nails always done to perfection, she triumphs rather than crumbles when infidelity, alcoholism, cancer, or any form of adversity attempts to shatter her family. Endearing and enduring, Gayle is a big-hearted, strong-willed true Southern belle—and she taught her son everything he knows about being a man.In She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Mother, Bryan Batt, the actor who plays Sal Romano on the ...