Book Review: ‘Take Your Shirt Off And Cry’

An actress recalls playing ‘floozies’ on MTV, a bit part on Seinfeld, and more in Hollywood and New York

Cover of “Take Your Shirt Off and Cry” / Bloomsbury

Back in the 1980s Nancy Balbirer studied acting with David Mamet, who told her she’d be asked to do two things in every role she played: “Take your shirt off and cry.”