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"Today" show host Meredith Vieira talks with Teri Garr about MS, a disease she lived with for almost 20 years before being officially diagnosed. Garr was invited on “Today” to discuss her book, “Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood,” written with Henriette Mantel, which will be available in paperback next week, her life, and her upcoming movie, “Unaccompanied Minors.” Read an excerpt of her book:

Chapter one...Hollywood: This Mess Is a Place
On March 29, 1982, the day of The Academy Awards, I woke up excited and ready to go to the Oscars for the first time in my life (I’d always watched them on TV, like everyone else). It was a perfect day in L. A., the same beautiful day any self-respecting Los Angeleno takes for granted. Outside my window the skies were blue and a hummingbird flirted with the lemon tree.

But today was different. I had been nominated for an Academy Award for my performance as Sandy Lester, Dustin Hoffman’s neurotic, struggling actress girlfriend, in “Tootsie.” Under Sydney Pollack’s direction, “Tootsie” had been a runaway hit starring Dustin as an unemployed actor who pretends to be a woman in order to land a role in a soap opera.....CLICK TO READ THE REST OF CHAPTER ONE