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The Many Faces Of Sandra Bernhard

oping her own style. Soon she was
known as the comic who spoke her
mind about everything and everyone.
She landed engagements at a string
of comedy clubs, including the
famed Improv, which led to appear-
ances on various television shows.
Then, in the early 1980s, came her
biggest break — the role of an obses-
sive fan in The King of Comedy.
"It was a great movie and an
invaluable experience," she says.
Bernhard went on to do lesser
mainstream Films, and recently made
a cameo appearance in her close
friend Isaac Mizrahi's movie

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By age 5, Sandra Bernhard of Flint,
As time passed, Bernhard's multi-
Mich., is mimicking the accents of her
faceted career continued to blossom,
mother's friends.
and it didn't take long for her to be
catapulted into celebrity status. She
connection with an audi-
strutted her
ence."
stuff on televi-
She also shares her
sion, stage
thoughts about her family.
and in the
Her parents divorced when
music world.
she was out of the house,
Along with
and she and her brothers,
her recurring
Dan, David and Mark, are
role on
estranged from their father.
"Roseanne,"
So it's likely that her dad
she had parts
may pop up in one of her
on "Ally
monologues. But she does-
McBeal" and
n't cross the line when it
"Chicago
comes to the rest of her
Hope,
family.
numerous
Her cousin Donna
appearances
Pearlman saw the show last
with David
year when it played Off-
Letterman
Broadway, and enjoyed
and Jay Leno,
snippets about their rela-
countless
Sandra, looking pretty as a picture, tives. "She used my grand-
cabaret/night-
at age 2.
father and her grandfather
club engage-
as subjects, portraying them
ments, record
albums, and one-woman
stage shows, including

Without You IM Nothing

and Giving Till It Hurts.
She even authored two
books — Love, Love and
Love and Confessions Of A
Pretty Lady. A third book,

May I Kiss You On The Lips,
Miss Sandra, filled with her

personal musings, prose
and essays, will be released
this month by Rob
Weisbach Books, a part of
William Morrow
Sandra, age 3, lounges in her parents' bed, watches
Publishing.
TV and dreams of becoming a performer.
But of everything,
Bernhard says it's the live
in a very funny way," she says.
performances she likes best.
"Sandra would imitate the way they
words,
You can write your own
talked
and what they said, but she
make a statement and have fun at
made
them
very endearing."
the same time," she says. "I love the