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- Born in Alabama and raised in Georgia, the comedian that some have dubbed "a Southern Lenny Bruce" grew up alongside four sisters whom Butler calls "all brilliant and funny. " Named for Hemingway’s Lady Brett Ashley from The Sun Also Rises, her mother’s remarriage gave the six-year-old a new name, an unintentional twist on another literary figure, albeit male, from Gone With the Wind. "We were poor, but my mother was cultured and left-wing -- just the thing they admire so much in the deep South," recalls Butler, who performed her first comedy routine during a school pageant at the age of eight. ...
- At nineteen Butler endured a brief and turbulent marriage, divorcing after three years. ... Two years and a thousand shows later Butler had honed her act to a razor sharpness, and at the urging of fellow comedian and supporter Robert Klein, she loaded up her 1969 Grand Prix and drove to New York City. It was the first time Butler had ever left the South. "I had all these years of Southern white guilt, and then I moved to New York and found that people are the same everywhere," says Butler, who calls New York "my brave new world. ... She appeared as a guest star or performer on more than 70 series and specials before landing her own one-woman show, the highly rated Showtime comedy special, "Brett Butler: The Child Ain’t Right. ...
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28. SNS Online - Sports - Piazza reacts to Butler's comments by saying he leads in his own way 3/3/98
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- Piazza reacts to Butler's comments by saying he leads in his own way.
- (AP) -- Brett Butler claimed Mike Piazza is no leader. ...
- "Brett obviously doesn't know me as well as he thinks he does," said Piazza, the Los Angeles Dodgers slugger who might soon become baseball's first $100-million man.
- Maybe Brett, who's never won a World Series, either, is very frustrated about something, and wants to make me a scapegoat. ...
- Piazza said Monday that he always had looked up to Butler, adding, "That's why this is so disappointing. We can't be concerned about what Brett Butler says about our club, because he's not on our club. ...
- Butler was quoted in Monday's editions of the Los Angeles Times as saying: "Mike Piazza is the greatest hitter I've ever been around. ...
- "You know all that stuff that went down last year about Mike being the leader, calling out the team, all that stuff?" Butler said. ...
- Butler, who retired at age 40 after 16 major league seasons, expressed surprise after the story appeared.
- "Ninety seconds of our two-day conversation dealt with my thoughts on the Dodgers and Mike Piazza," Butler said. ...
- "We're in (crunch) time during pennant races the last two years, and all Piazza seems to care about is winning the MVP from Larry Walker or the batting title from Tony Gwynn," Butler said. ...
- "You know why Ken Griffey is a leader, why Barry Bonds is a leader? It's respect," Butler was quoted as saying. ...
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- Brett Butler, Hyperion, 298 pages.
- Walk into any of the big chain stores and you'll see Brett Butler's wonderful memoir, "Knee Deep in Paradise," next to the books by Fran, Ellen, Jerry, Paul and Kelsey. If stores had the good taste and decency to separate books by sensibility, Butler would fit right next to writers like Lee Smith and William Price Fox, Southerners whose emotions go a mile deep and who remain tough and funny in very dark circumstances. ...
- The meat of the book is Butler's story of growing up independent, feisty and, eventually, drunk as the daughter of a divorced (i. ... After his death, Butler received his unintended legacy to her: eight UPS boxes full of books, notebooks and magazines, nearly everything heavily annotated, finally spelling out a picture of the man she'd long wondered about and allowing her to make connections to her own sensibility. ...
- In her stand-up routines, Butler (like Richard Pryor) is one of those rare comics who speak from experience rather than a manufactured persona. ... Butler even manages compassion -- and not condescending compassion -- for the ex who did things like hold a gun to her head while he forced her to flush her wedding ring down the toilet. ... " Butler may be another celeb writing a bio, but there's no doubt she's a writer. ...
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- Making her second appearance in front of the bricks instead of under the fire, Brett Butler will be headlining the DC Improv June 12th thru the 15th. ...
- Credited as both star and producer of the television series Grace Under Fire, Brett Butler took a break from live entertainment and transformed her stand-up routine into her own show. ...
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- Born in Montgomery, Alabama and raised in Georgia, Brett Butler was.
- Her mother named her Brett after the.
- literary character "Lady Brett Ashley" in Ernest Hemingway's novel, "The.
- After graduating from high school, Butler married at age.
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- Out on her own, Butler began waitressing in a diner in Houston. ...
- in two years, Butler packed up her '69 Grand Prix and moved to New York.
- In addition to performing in clubs, Butler was a writer and part-.
- 1993, Butler got her own sit-com "Grace Under Fire" which continues today. ...
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35. BRETT BUTLER: KNEE DEEP IN PARADISE
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- (Little, Brown) Comics tend to have dark, unhappy pasts and TV's Brett Butler (Grace Under Fire) is no exception. ...
- Butler manages to look back on all this with her sense of humor intact and with a feel for language that is as literate and literary as many a serious contemporary writer. ...
- Butler's life followed a self-destructive path of drug and alcohol addiction and getting involved with the wrong men, until she found her voice and her salvation in stand-up comedy. ...
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- Railing against life's inanities while embracing its absurdity, Brett Butler has seduced comedy audiences with a singular blend of candor, vulnerability and scathing Southern wit. Butler shifts effortlessly from one role to the next -- from a challenger of social paradigms to a champion of self-actualization -- her perceptions filtered through a comic sensibility as dark and dense as a Georgia swamp. ...
- As Grace Kelly in the ABC series "Grace Under Fire," Brett Butler portrays a recently divorced mother of three facing the Perils of single parenthood. ... Butler's portrayal of Grace, a sharp-tongued and resourceful survivor who works at an oil refinery by day, recently earned a People's Choice award for Favorite Female in a New Series, with the show itself honored as Favorite New Comedy.
- Born in Alabama and raised in Georgia, the comedian that some have dubbed "a Southern Lenny Bruce" grew up alongside four sisters whom Butler calls "all brilliant and funny. Named for Hemingway's Lady Brett Ashley from The Sun Also Rises, her mother's remarriage gave the six-year-old a new name, an unintentional twist on another literary figure, albeit male, from Gone With the Wind. "We were poor, but my mother was cultured and left-wing -- just the thing they admire so much in the deep South," recalls Butler, who performed her first comedy routine during a school pageant at the age of eight.
- At nineteen Brett Butler endured a brief and turbulent marriage, divorcing after three years. ... Two years and a thousand shows later Butler had honed her act to a razor sharpness, and at the urging of fellow comedian and supporter Robert Klein, she loaded up her 1969 Grand Prix and drove to New York City. It was the first time Butler had ever left the South.
- "I had all these years of Southern white guilt, and then I moved to New York and found that people are the same everywhere, " says Butler, who calls New York "my brave new world. Butler's act translated well to the New York stage, and within two years she was performing for Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show," returning a mere six months later. She appeared as a guest star or performer on more than 70 series and specials before landing her own one-woman show, the highly rated Showtime comedy special, "Brett Butler: The Child Ain't Right. ...
- Brett Butler's career came to a turning point when ABC approached The Carsey-Werner Company last year about developing a comedy series around a single mother. Company vice president David Tochterman saw Butler in New York and was immediately taken with her honest style and original writing. ...
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- Railing against lifeâ ™s inanities while embracing its absurdity, Brett Butler has seduced comedy audiences with a singular blend of candor, vulnerability and scathing Southern wit. ...
- Butler shifts effortlessly from one role to the next -- from a challenger of social paradigms to a champion of self-actualization -- her perceptions filtered through a comic sensibility as dark and dense as a Georgia swamp. ...
- As Grace Kelly in the ABC series "Grace Under Fire," Butler portrayed a recently divorced mother of three facing the perils of single parenthood. Butlerâ ™s portrayal of Grace, a sharp-tongued and resourceful survivor who works at an oil refinery by day, earned a Peopleâ ™s Choice award for Favorite Female in a New Series, with the show itself honored as Favorite New Comedy. ...
- She appeared as a guest star or performer on more than 70 series and specials before landing her own one-woman show, the highly rated Showtime comedy special, "Brett Butler: The Child Ainâ ™t Right. " A comedian by trade, Butler is still eagerly learning the nuances of acting. She offers: "Stand-up is like drawing with primary color crayons -- itâ ™s a beautiful and satisfying world --but acting is like having the big box of 148!" As the star and a contributing writer of "Grace Under Fire," Butler hopes to further develop the series as a cross between "The Andy Griffith Show" and "M*A*S*H," a nod to Southern tradition with a streak of well-crafted mischief. Perhaps mischief is what satisfies Brett Butler most, leading others to abandon comfort for a worthwhile challenge. Had she been born in another time, Butler admits, "Iâ ™d probably be trying to outrank Dorothy Parker at the Algonquin Roundtable. ...
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39. FOXSports.com | Brett Butler | BaseballLibrary.com
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- Butler developed into one of baseball's surest and most wide-ranging centerfielders, with errorless seasons in 1991 (when his 380 total chances tied for the NL lead) and 1993. As a hitter, Butler was largely perceived as a throwback, with talents better suited to the deadball-era style of play. Butler had very little power, so if he wasn't slapping the ball to the opposite field, he was often bunting for a hit. ...
- Despite leading the NL in triples (13) in 1983, Butler was sent by the Braves to the Indians as part of an ill-conceived trade for starter Len Barker. ...
- Butler left the Indians for his hometown Giants as a free agent for 1988, prompting Cleveland's Andy Allanson to call Butler a selfish player. Back in the NL, Butler led the league with 109 runs for his new team.
- Always patient at the plate, Butler grew more selective as he got older, tying the NL record with five walks in one game while with the Giants on April 12, 1990. ...
- The bitter 1994-'95 strike/lockout made the outspokenly pro-player Butler temporarily unpopular with the L. ...
- A born-again Christian who publicly proclaimed his faith, Butler proved his toughness and desire in the remarkable 1996 season when he came back from a mid-season throat cancer operation, inspiring his pennant-chasing teammates. ... He did return the following year, though by the end of the season the Dodgers' acquisitions of Darren Lewis and Otis Nixon reduced Butler to part-time status. ...
- » August 28th, 1983: The Indians trade pitcher Len Barker to the Braves for Rick Behenna, cash, and two players to be named later who turn out to be OF Brett Butler and 3B Brook Jacoby. ...
- » December 1st, 1987: Free-agent OF Brett Butler signs a 2-year contract with the Giants. ...
- » April 12th, 1990: San Francisco’s Brett Butler ties the ML record by drawing 5 walks in a 13-4 win over Atlanta. ...
- » December 15th, 1990: AL Cy Young winner and free agent Bob Welch re-signs with Oakland, while “free look” free agents Jack Clark and Brett Butler sign with the Red Sox and Dodgers, respectively. ...
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- You might recognize the Alabama born comedienne from her hit ABC series Grace Under Fire You've also seen her on The Tonight Show, Letterman and the highly rated showtime special: Brett Butler: The Child Ain't Right. ... so make plans today to welcome Brett Butler back to Alabama and the StarDome with an enthusiastic StarDome audience! .
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- Pictured from top: Brett Butler in his LA uniform in 1997. ... Butler captivates the Walker audience. ... Butler and Varsity Coach Mark Tidwell share a handshake. ... Butler signs a copy of his book for Catherine Voyles and her family. ... Butler speaks as Coach Tidwell and his wife Lee look on.
- Faith And Determination Drive Ex-Brave Butler.
- With that in mind, how appropriate would it be to bring in Brett Butler to speak at the 2nd Annual Teams' kickoff banquet? The answer is PERFECT! .
- This years' guest speaker, Brett Butler holds the distinction of being one of the top 25 leadoff hitters in the history of professional baseball. Retiring at the end of the 1997 season, Brett's career stats included 2,375 hits, 558 stolen bases, 54 homeruns and a. ... Brett's autobiography "Field of Hope," is being made into a movie by Dick Clark Productions. ... Butler signed copies of his book for the Walker faithful gathering that included 43 to 45 players from the schools' baseball program and parents and friends. ... Butler claims that the reason he wrote the book was because of the tremendous support he got after his cancer diagnosis and the over 280,000 pieces of mail that he received and couldn't answer personally from all over the country. ...
- Even though he never started for his high school baseball team, Brett believed he was good enough to play professionally. ...
- "Brett is such an important part of our organization. ... Brett is not just a member of the team; he's been a leader of the team. ...
- Experts said he was never expected to play again, but Brett made an amazing comeback to play again with the Dodgers and he led them to many victories. ...
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