Lester Colodny is an Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and director who, at age eighty-five, is finally telling his collection of his life stories. Colodny spent most of the 1960s working on such classic television series as ¿The Munsters,¿ ¿Get Smart,¿ ¿My Favorite Martian,¿ and ¿Beetle Bailey.¿ He directed Frank Sinatra in several commercials for Steve Wynn¿s casino chain in the 1970s and worked with Mel Brooks when Brooks was just an office gopher, trying to work his way into the movie business. He was also a writer for ¿The Today Show¿ with original host Dave Garroway and Florence Henderson. Colodny¿s book reads like the life he led (and continues to live) in television, movies and theatre. He tells of triumphs and failures, ups and downs, from facing near-certain death to hosting a simple get-together that turned into a grand bacchanalia with the decade¿s biggest stars. Marty Brill, of ¿All in the Family¿ and ¿Three¿s Company¿ wrote of the book: ¿Since the very inception of show business both laughter and tragedy, side by side, have been its symbol. And under the surface of every side-splitting tale Lester tells is that ever present poignant layer of sadness. It's a hell of a read!¿¿A Funny Thing Happens¿ contains nearly forty photographs, including previously unreleased photos of The Beatles, and very rare images of Frank Sinatra and Dolly Parton. The foreword for the book is written by Elizabeth Hendrickson, star of ¿The Young and the Restless.¿