Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs Of A Neurotic Filmmaker

"Barry Sonnenfeld has directed entertaining (though not always critically acclaimed) films including “The Addams Family” and the first three “Men in Black” movies. But as listeners of “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” know, he’s also an engaging storyteller. In his memoir, Sonnenfeld is both hilarious and tragic as he talks about working with the Coen brothers, surviving a plane crash and growing up with a cousin who sexually abused him. Somehow the combination works: Sonnenfeld’s breezy style engages us and makes us believe, as Will Smith has joked, that if Barry Sonnenfeld can be a director, anyone can."