Shortly before Kelsey Grammer rose to fame playing Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers and then Frasier, he experienced a horrible personal tragedy: His 18-year-old older sister Karen was brutally murdered in 1975. "The grief was so enormous. I don't blame anybody for grieving to that extent, I get it." And now he's memorializing Karen's memory—and searching for answers—in Karen: A Brother Remembers (available to buy now). He says the book "came from what is a shared sadness, a depth of sadness that we have to go through these things," and hopes that others will feel a "lifeline" with this book.
"There is a personal, human cost struggle that is forever. From the moment that happens, it's forever. So I think that one of the goals of the book would be to actually extend the hand of love to everybody that's felt the same way, who will spend the rest of their lives remarking on it." While the "grief is always there," Grammer says writing this book "let the grief roll back just enough to be able to remember her story is my story, and that our love that we had is forever, and that's been great."
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By H. Alan Scott
Diego Boneta knew he wanted to write a sexy, steamy murder mystery for his first novel. "And I also really wanted it to be a novel that was a great summer read." That's exactly what he's done with The Undoing of Alejandro Velasco. Set in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, the story follows a mysterious young man, Julian Villareal, who arrives at the estate of his friend and tennis rival, Alejandro Velasco, after his sudden death.
"You think he's this super rich kid from Mexico City, who's studying at UCLA, and then you slowly start realizing that he's not who he says he is." The book is also being adapted by Amazon MGM Studios as an original series. "It's my first time doing this, where it's acting out a character that I wrote in a novel." But for Boneta, whose father was a "national [tennis] champion in Mexico [and] played Wimbledon," he's more than prepared to play Julian. "Julian is something that I already have in my DNA, because we've been working on this for so long now, I just want to make sure that it's the best version of the show that it can be for audiences to be entertained."
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