Living Out Loud: My life in stories

Jane Sweeney tells her life story with humor and candor. She grew up in the fifties in what Johnny Carson called "beautiful downtown Burbank." Her parents were alcoholics, whose fights taught her never to argue with someone - it gets ugly. To protect herself she hid under the bed with their cat, Skunky, beginning her life long love of animals. She tells of riding around and listening to the Beach Boys in her husband -to- be's '56 Chevy. Gas was 29 cents a gallon. Her mother's death in 1980,...