Has anybody read this book? I got it from the library, and was amazed I hadn't found it before because I love Costello, and it's amazing to read about his life.
A few things I found out in it is when he was a teenager one Sunday they were at a beach and a 9 year old girl was drowning, and he and another boy ran out and got her, and she wasn't breathing so he started performing artificial respiration, even though everybody told him she was dead, there wasn't anything he could do, but he didn't give up and he got her breathing again.
Another thing was that when he first made it big on the radio, his father was an insurance man, and he got the names of the 25 poorest people in the policy list, and had 25 turkeys cooked with all the trimmings and delivered so they could have a Thanksgiving dinner.
And also that when he and Bud went on the radio, they planned to premiere with Who's on First, but everybody said the listeners wouldn't get it because it was a visual gag. But they pressed and pressed to do it, and one week Lou finally said they didn't have an act prepared for the night, so they'd have to skip it, but they were so popular by that time they couldn't, so they finally got to do their Who's on First skit.