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Champagne and Caviar Again?
Complaints of the Rich and Famous

Wish you were rich and famous? Think again. Life on easy street can be terribly bumpy. You may wish you had the problems that accompany fame and fortune, until you discover the rich have more of everything, including more things to complain about. Each page of Champagne and Caviar Again? features a different exaggerated complaint from the lap of luxury.

• It takes the Pizza Hut delivery guy thirty minutes just to get from the front gate of your property to your front door.
• When the Houston Astros play the Baltimore Orioles, you’re not sure which team to root for because you own them both.
• Your wife refuses to take golf lessons from anyone but Tiger Woods.
• The President of the United States only comes to see you when he needs money.
• Paparazzi respect your privacy.
• Your wardrobe malfunction went unnoticed by the FCC.
• You had to apologize to the vice president for getting shot in the face.
• The Swiss ambassador to Cuba, who supplied you with your cigars, has been transferred to Nepal.
• A neighbor called the police when the Rolling Stones, The Who, and Led Zeppelin played in your backyard for your 50^th birthday bash.
• You can’t fit any more cars into your 24-car garage.

      Author Joey Green came up with the idea for this book during a summer vacation. His in-laws treated the entire family to an all-expenses-paid, weeklong vacation at a resort in the Dominican Republic. Green, who backpacked around the world on his honeymoon and stayed in the world’s worst hotels (sometimes setting up his tent in the room to insulate himself and his bride from the insects), had never been on a resort vacation before.

      “It was great,” said Green. “It was all you can eat, free drinks, nightly entertainment, scuba diving, sailboats you can take out whenever you please.” But his brother-in-law Barry complained the entire time. “There was never enough ice in his drink,” recalled Green, who started joking around with his father-in-law, making complaints, like “The crushed ice maker in my stretch limo is broken.” His father-in-law told him, ”That would be a great book.” Admits Green, “the idea of turning this into a book didn’t even dawn on me, I was just clowning around on vacation.”

      So when Green got home from the vacation, he asked Alan Corcoran, his co-author on the book You Know You’ve Reached Middle Age If . . . , to write the book with him. His wife Debbie kept handing them pages of exaggerated complaints she wrote based on grumbles she’d overheard at PTA meetings and from friends living in a nearby gated community, and the results are, well, hilarious.

      The cover of the 240-page book features the title embossed in gold foil, giving the book an elegant touch. Green dedicated the book to his brother-in-law Barry and gave him a copy for his 50th birthday present. Says Green, “The book truly is the perfect gift for the person in your life who doesn’t realize that he or she has everything.”

      Champagne and Caviar Again? Complaints of the Rich and Famous is available at bookstores everywhere or through the internet at www.amazon.com.

About the Authors
Joey Green is the author of more than thirty books, including The Jolly President (or Letters George W. Bush Never Read) and Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose. Debbie Green is a former television commercial producer. Alan Corcoran is the coauthor of Senior Moments and You Know You’ve Reached Middle Age If . . . They all live in Southern California.

Champagne and Caviar Again? Complaints of the Rich and Famous
Written by Joey Green, Debbie Green, and Alan Corcoran
Publisher: Lunatic Press
Price: $8.95
ISBN: 0977259005
Trade paperback: 240 pages, 6 x 4.25
Publication: November 2006
Distributed by: Independent Publishers Group

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