Chelsea Handler: As star of her own TV series ("Chelsea Lately" and "The Chelsea Handler Show"), Handler is both a golden, twinkly Hollywood blonde and a comic who merrily sends up the same. Her first book, a memoir, "My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands," recalls a childhood through a lens of the absurd, telling how she agreed to take a picture -- for $5, who wouldn't? -- of her parents having sex. "Seeing your mother naked is not something you easily recover from. Seeing your mother naked and jumping from one side of a king sized bed to the other with a nurse's hat on, while your father, who is also naked, is chasing her with a bandanna around his neck, is reason to put yourself up for adoption." Next treat: "Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea," which we're buying just for the title alone. (Ramona Rosales/Retna Ltd.)

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