Fran drescher biography book

I just love Fran. As I was walking out of work a few months ago I noticed someone had put her book on the free cart (the nerve of them, really) and it was like Christmas morning.

I was a little kid when The Nanny was originally airing, so I didn’t become acquainted with Fran until a decade or so later when I’d get insomnia and The Nanny would come on like five times a night on either Nick At Night or TV Land.

If you know anything about insomnia, you know it’s a pain in the ass. When you can’t shut your mind off and are stuck in a state of constant dwelling, you need a distraction. And on many a sleepless night, The Nanny was my distraction.

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Fran got me through some rough patches, so I feel a special fondness towards her. (Imagine my devastation when a few years ago I began my worst bout of insomnia ever only to get up, turn on the TV, and find out they’d replaced The Nanny with Friends & Everybody Loves Raymond.

Again...the nerve of so