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Subject: Live with Regis and Kelly
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Television
Asked by: sammielayne-ga
List Price: $20.00
Posted: 27 Aug 2003 14:14 PDT
Expires: 26 Sep 2003 14:14 PDT
Question ID: 249363
Regis Philbin mentioned a book on his show on 8/27/2003. Could I get
the title and author?

Clarification of Question by sammielayne-ga on 27 Aug 2003 17:29 PDT
The book was about cancer.

Request for Question Clarification by nancylynn-ga on 29 Aug 2003 09:47 PDT
Hello: sammielayne-ga: 

Did Regis interview the author, or did Regis just mention the book in passing? 

Also, did this appear to be a new show, or do you think it was a repeat?

Regards,
nancylynn-ga

Clarification of Question by sammielayne-ga on 29 Aug 2003 13:55 PDT
He mentioned the book in passing and actually had the book with him.
He raised it up and showed it to the audience. This was a new show but
they were having some kind of awards so they showed clips from
previous shows for people to vote on.

Request for Question Clarification by nancylynn-ga on 30 Aug 2003 09:24 PDT
Hello sammielayne-ga:

I *think* I've found the answer, but in this case, can't possibly be
100% certain without having seen the show myself. I have provided some
links you can check to see if this is the correct book. (If it is, I
will re-post this as the "Answer.")

I think the book Regis mentioned is likely "Me and My Dad: A Baseball
Memoir" (William Morrow: May 13 2003), written by retired New York
Yankee right-fielder Paul O'Neill. The book details O'Neill's
relationship with his dad, Chick, and Chick's death during the 1999
World Series.

The official Kelly & Regis Web site:
http://tvplex.go.com/buenavista/livewithregis/special/rellys/index_today.html
won't let me in to see the awards for best highlights of the 2002-2003
season, as voting has ended.

The site also doesn't have show themes listed by air date, only by
recent guests under the "I Saw It On Live" section at:
http://boards.go.com/cgi/livewithregis/Request.dll?LIST&room=viewerask:

There, I found a link for "Paul O'Neill's Baseball Memoir." I recalled
that O'Neill's dad had died during a recent World Series, after a
lengthy illness, and that O'Neill was much admired for playing in the
series despite his dad's death. If you click on that link, it brings
up this page:
http://boards.go.com/cgi/livewithregis/request.dll?MESSAGE&room=viewerask&id=1300

The above link notes that Regis interviewed O'Neill recently: "Regis
knows his Yankees and Regis knows that Paul O'Neill was a stellar ball
player for the Yankees and a devoted family man. In Paul O'Neill's new
book, he pays homage to his father who gave him so much in life. The
book is titled, 'Me and My Dad: A Baseball Memoir'. . . . For the
first time since he laid down his bat and glove, after five World
Series championships, Yankee all-star Paul O'Neill talks candidly
about the game he loves and how the father he lost made him a winner."

The Yahoo Group TV Barn (you must enable cookies to read it) is culled
from the "Kansas Star" newspaper columnist Aaron Barnhart's TV weekly
newsletter:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tvbarn/

The newsletter notes that O'Neil was on "Regis & Kelly Live" on June
11, 2003 -- so we know that interview with Regis & O'Neill was from
this past season. (Also, O'Neill's book was published in the spring of
2003):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tvbarn/message/203

Regis might well have mentioned cancer while noting O'Neill's memoir:
In his new book, O'Neill not only discusses his dad's death (the elder
O'Neill died from heart disease), but he also addresses the Yankee's
very bittersweet 1999 championship season, in which O'Neill's dad
died, O'Neill's teammate Darryl Strawberry battled cancer, teammate
Scott Brosius lost his dad to colon cancer, and Yankees manager Joe
Torre was diagnosed with prostate cancer. As you can see, there was a
tragic near-epidemic of cancer among the NY Yankees, and Regis might
well have alluded to that aspect of the book.

You can see more about O'Neill's book at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060524057/categoricalgeome/ref%3Dnosim/104-8321823-3663167

and at http://www.Bookreporter.com's "Father's Day Favorites" picks
page (scroll down to O'Neill's book):
http://www.bookreporter.com/features/030606-dad.asp

Also see this Associated Press story from October 28, 1999: a recap of
the Yankees' 1999 World Series championship, won against backdrop of
tragedy,"Emotional O'Neill plays after father dies":
http://www.baseball.ca/BaseballPlayoffs99/oct28_emo.html

If you check some of these sites, you may be able to determine if this
is the book Regis meant. If this isn't the correct book, I hope
another researcher can help you.

Regards,
nancylynn-ga

Clarification of Question by sammielayne-ga on 30 Aug 2003 14:07 PDT
Thanks for your help, but I don't think this is the book. Regis
mentioned that the author had survived cancer and in addition to his
own experiences, had also interviewed other survivors. He also had a
co-author.
Answer  
Subject: Re: Live with Regis and Kelly
Answered By: markj-ga on 31 Aug 2003 08:53 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
sammylayne -- 

Thanks for the response to my comment and the opportunity to post my
information as an answer to your question.  I'm glad that it turned it
to be exactly what you are looking for.  Although the book is
apparently temporarily out of stock at Barnes & Noble's online
bookstore, it is available at the  Amazon.com link I have provided for
you.

Here is an excerpt from the description of the book at that Amazon.com
link:
"Women and men, girls and boys, who have fought or are still fighting
cancer, share with us their personal experiences that you will find
both uplifting and inspiring. Heaven Can Wait for everyone."
Amazon.com: Heaven Can Wait
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931643261/qid=1062342492/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-7867102-6341437


Additional Information:

Here is a link to a collection of on-line book reviews that includes a
review of "Heaven Can Wait: Surviving Cancer" that contains the
following high praise:
"Charlie Jones is a prostate cancer survivor. Kim Doren is a
motivational speaker. Together, Jones and Doren have compiled Heaven
Can Wait: Surviving Cancer, a poignant collection of the personal
experiences of cancer survivors, along with the wisdom and
observations of respected doctors and researchers in the field of
cancer. . . . If you, a friend or a loved one is dealing with cancer,
then give a careful reading to Heaven Can Wait!"
Midwest Book Review: Heaven Can Wait (1/3 down the page)
http://www.midwestbookreview.com/ibw/aug_03.htm#health
 

Also, the Los Angeles Times published a review of the book that
contains the following excerpt:
"Following the suggestion of co-author Kim Doren, who had teamed with
Jones on six previous books, he began talking to friends who had
undergone cancer treatment. He and Doren interviewed more than 100
cancer survivors, and this highly readable 194-page paperback is the
result. . . . Essentially, "Heaven Can Wait" is about winning —
winning the game of life."

(This review is found on an Internet document that has been "cached,"
or saved, by Google, and the original page is no longer available. 
However, you should be able to get to the complete review by clicking
on this (long) link to the cached page):
LATimes.com Hot Corner: Heaven Can Wait
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:v1lLoTt2IdEJ:www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-corner12aug12,0,1416397.story%3Fcoll%3Dla-headlines-sports+books+%22cancer+survivors%22+-breast+interviews+OR+interviewed+2003&hl=en&ie=UTF-8


Finally, here is contact information for the publisher of the book:

Charlie Jones & Kim Doren
Seven Locks Press
3100 W. Warner Avenue, #8, Santa Ana, CA 92704
1-800-596-7437



Search Strategy:

Before you provided the clarification of your question, I spent most
of my research time trying to figure out how to find the information
at the website of the Regis & Kelly show, found here:
Live with Regis and Kelly
http://tvplex.go.com/buenavista/livewithregis/homepage/today.html

This was unsuccessful, as were various general Google searches. 
However, your clarification provided the clues I needed to design
Google searches that would narrow down the possibilities.  As I said
in my comment, those clues included the gender of the author (male),
as well as the information that he is a cancer survivor, had a
co-author and had interviewed other cancer survivors.

After some new searches still returned an unwieldy number of sites,
the following search came up with the Los Angeles Time review as the
11th result out of about 550:

books "cancer survivors" -breast interviews OR interviewed 2003
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=books+%22cancer+survivors%22+-breast+interviews+OR+interviewed+2003

Note that the term "-breast" ensures that breast cancer is not
mentioned in the web pages returned by the search.  I chose that route
because so many of the large number of sites returned by other
searches were concerned with breast cancer survivors.   Since I now
knew that your book was written by a man, using that search term
seemed like a promising way to reduce the number of irrelevant search
results, and I got lucky.


Thanks again for confirming that this is the information you are
seeking.   It seems like that this is a truly inspiring book.

If any of the information is unclear, please ask for clarification
before rating the answer.


markj-ga
sammielayne-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars and gave an additional tip of: $30.00
This was truly exceptional work! I really appreciate your efforts and
I'm sure the recipient of this book - it's a gift - would appreciate
it too. Thank you.

Comments  
Subject: Re: Live with Regis and Kelly
From: markj-ga on 30 Aug 2003 15:16 PDT
 
sammylayne --

I and probably many other researchers have looked for a definitive
answer to your question over the past several days and have been
unsuccessful so far.  I hope that someone can still come up with it
after the holiday weekend, maybe with the help of some direct contact
with someone on the Regis And Kelly program.

In the meantime, I have taken the clues in your clarification and come
up a book that is entirely consistent with your recollections.  That
is:

1.  It is a new book (June 2003);

2.  It was written by a man;

3.  It has a co-author;

4.  The author is a cancer survivor;

5.  The book is based on interviews with 100 other cancer survivors.


Here is a link to Amazon.com's listing for the book, which is
called"Heaven Can Wait: Surviving Cancer":

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931643261/qid=1062280434/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-7867102-6341437#product-details

Since I have reached a dead end without being able to establish that
this is indeed the book that Regis mentioned, I am posting this as a
comment instead of as an answer.

If you recognize this book as the correct one, please post a comment
to that effect, and I will post this information as an answer along
with my search strategy.

markj-ga
Subject: Re: Live with Regis and Kelly
From: sammielayne-ga on 31 Aug 2003 07:22 PDT
 
Thank you so much!!! "Heaven can wait" is the book. I appreciate your efforts!
Subject: Re: Live with Regis and Kelly
From: markj-ga on 31 Aug 2003 18:05 PDT
 
sammielayne --

Thanks very much for the kind words, the five-star rating and the
generous tip.  I sincerely hope that the book will prove to be as
inspirational to its recipient as it apparently has been for many
others.


markj-ga

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