EVAN HANDLER
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ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE...and I'm here to prove it!
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48 years old
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login: 6/12/2009
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EVAN HANDLER's Interests
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| General | I like good food and good wine. I like smart, beautiful women - but I love my wife more than I like them. I like to travel. I like to sit and stare at natural wonders. I'm interested in what the hell we're doing here, and how I can do whatever that is a little bit better. In the absence of answers to those questions, I'm interested in how I can make my dinner taste even better.
For 70,000 more words on the subject, please consider reading IT'S ONLY TEMPORARY: THE GOOD NEWS AND THE BAD NEWS OF BEING ALIVE.
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Reviews for "It's Only Temporary" |
In It's Only Temporary, Evan Handler confronts the ambiguities of life backward, forward, and in between. With hilarious honesty he reflects on the realization that we can start over again. It's Only Temporary is a heartfelt book for all of us who are getting younger and older at the same time.
- Amy Tan, author of “The Joy Luck Club,” “The Bonesetter’s Daughter,” and “The Kitchen God’s Wife”
In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?
- Lewis Black, comedian, "Daily Show" correspondent, and author of "Nothing's Sacred"
Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.
- Neil Simon, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright/screenwriter of "Lost In Yonkers," "The Odd Couple," "Brighton Beach Memoirs," and "The Goodbye Girl"
Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He covers love, lust, showbiz, triumph, and despair – and he manages to be both funny and inspiring about all of it. It’s an important book that I think can help to spread goodness around the world. Something we desperately need.
- Lance Armstrong, seven-time Tour de France Champion; Founder, The Lance Armstrong Foundation
Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he’s a damn good writer. It’s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as righteously indignant as it is endearingly self-effacing. In what may be a literary first, the book actually left me wanting more.
- Meghan Daum, author of “My Misspent Youth” and “The Quality of Life Report”
Evan Handler's unsparingly honest stories about life, love, and his own shortcomings are hilarious to read and oh, so easy (and fun!) to relate to. By the end you will be left with the surprising but unmistakable feelings of hope and redemption. IT'S ONLY TEMPORARY is truly an inspiration, particularly for anyone who's out there looking for love.
- Liz Tuccillo, co-author of “He’s Just Not That Into You”
Change is good - that’s the credo Evan Handler reinvigorates with the hard won wisdom of this hard luck story. Handler’s prose style is disarmingly funny and smoothly conversational. He writes like a guy who's just happy to be here, and a little pissed off at you if you're not. As he has worked hard to shape himself into a good actor, life has shaped him into a good man. The cover photo is worth the price alone.
- David Duchovny, actor, director, screenwriter
| | Music | Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Ray Charles, Macy Gray, Liz Phair, Fiona Apple | | Movies | Being There; Bullworth; Dog Day Afternoon; hundreds of others..... | | Television | Californication, Sex and the City, Lost, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip | | Books | Don Delillo, Philip Roth, Nick Hornby, Christopher Hitchens
IT'S ONLY TEMPORARY: THE GOOD NEWS AND THE BAD NEWS OF BEING ALIVE, by Evan Handler. MAY 1, FROM RIVERHEAD BOOKS.
Preorders available now: on Amazon | | Heroes | The real ones don't need me to mention them here. |
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EVAN HANDLER's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn | | Occupation: | Actor/Author |
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My Huffington Post piece, from Jan. 30, 2008 - CSNY, their new film, and how things used to be
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My Huffington Post piece, from Feb. 13, 2008 - On the "Mortgage Crisis"
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About me:
Evan Handler is an actor beloved by millions as Harry Goldenblatt, husband to Charlotte York (played by Kristin Davis) from HBO’s landmark television series SEX AND THE CITY. Currently co-starring with David Duchovny on Showtime’s hit comedy CALIFORNICATION, Handler is also the critically acclaimed author of the memoir Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors, which chronicled his triumph over a supposedly “incurable” form of leukemia in his twenties. Called “suspenseful and harrowing, moving and admirable” by The New York Times Book Review, it was described as “a wildly humorous, keenly observed journey” and “a ceaselessly compassionate vision of the human spirit” by the San Francisco Review of Books.
Handler has also played leading roles in films and television shows such as Lost, Ransom, The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Shark, and It’s Like, You Know….He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.
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HANDLER'S NEW BOOK, IT'S ONLY TEMPORARY: THE GOOD NEWS AND THE BAD NEWS OF BEING ALIVE WILL BE PUBLISHED MAY 1, FROM RIVERHEAD BOOKS.
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What if you were supposed to die, but you didn’t? And what if, years later, your precious second chance didn’t turn out anything like you thought it would? That’s the journey actor and author Evan Handler experienced, and the one he explores in IT’S ONLY TEMPORARY: THE GOOD NEWS AND THE BAD NEWS OF BEING ALIVE (Riverhead Books, May ’08). In a collection of funny, off-beat, and poignant autobiographical essays, Handler moves beyond the supposedly “incurable” illness he triumphed over in his mid-twenties – only to bumble through his thirties and forties in search of ever-elusive love and happiness. From bold attempts to rekindle his acting career, through his hapless efforts to run faster around New York’s Central Park reservoir, from bizarre Internet dates, through his twenty-seven break ups (involving only ten women), Handler careens through his against-all-odds existence. Always searching for meaning in his unlikely survival, Handler shares stories of sadistic junior high school gym teachers, bullying wanna-be Hollywood moguls, returned engagement rings, and Europeans’ fascination with American bathroom habits. Picking up ten years after his first book, Time on Fire, Handler again uses what the New York Times calls his “laceratingly funny and revealing” storytelling skills to weave twenty-one new tales into a defiantly unconventional memoir. Consistently witty and insightful, Handler’s stories shift effortlessly from the comedic to the profound, musing with equal intensity on the existence of God and his experiences with TV stardom. Then, just when it seems he’s failed to make the most of his astonishing second chance, Handler finds his way to miracles even greater than the ones that saved his life. His memoir describes his journey from darkness to light, from yearning to gratitude, and in so doing succeeds as both a stirring love story and a classic coming of age tale. “It’s Only Temporary” celebrates the transformation of boy to man – even if it took Handler more than forty years to get there.
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Who I'd like to meet:
I just met Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Who's left after that? Phillip Roth. My great, great, great, great, great, great grandparents. Your great, great, great, great, great grandparents (no, on the other side, silly). Martin Luther King, Jr. Malcolm X. Robert Kennedy. OPRAHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
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