Radio TV Mother Earth & Me

<p><strong><em>Master comedy writer/master plant guy/fish cookbook guru!</em></strong></p><p>Joel Rapp was raised in Beverly Hills surrounded by show-business legends. His father Philip Rapp created <em>The Bickersons</em> and <em>Baby Snooks</em> his godmother was Fanny Brice and his godfather was Eddie Cantor.</p><p>Joel inherited the writing gene and went on to write or co-write 16 motion pictures and over 200 sitcom episodes among them <em>Gilligan's Island</em> <em>The Lucy Show</em> <em>McHale's Navy My Favorite Martian The Patty Duke Show The Joey Bishop Show</em> and <em>The Donna Reed Show</em>. In 1969 he quit his job as Vice-President in charge of Comedy Development at Universal Pictures and went into the indoor plant business soon becoming known as "Mr. Mother Earth Plant Man to the Stars" a persona in which he wrote 14 best-selling books on indoor gardening and cooking spent eleven years with Regis & Kathie Lee as their TV gardener and for almost ten years was heard weekly dispensing gardening advice on WABC radio in New York.</p><p>This memoir is filled with marvelous anecdotes from both his Show-biz and Grow-biz careers - stories of his friendships with Lucille Ball John Huston Ruth Buzzi Elizabeth Taylor Don Rickles Ernest Borgnine Lenny Bruce Clark Gable Dinah Shore and many many more.</p><p><em>"I really never knew the full extent of his incredibly exciting life until I read these memoirs. The story of the rise and fall of Mother Earth is fodder for a highly dramatic movie</em>." - Roger Corman</p>