Ask the Fruitcake Lady

Old means boring, dull, and out-of-touch? Quite the contrary.& Marie Rudisill, Truman Capote?'s aunt and the indomitable "Fruitcake Lady," gives her no-nonsense opinions on a variety of topics and answers questions ranging from sex to marriage to manners. Rudisill first appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in December of 2000, where she taught Jay and Mel Gibson how to make a fruitcake. She has since returned as a regular on The Tonight Show to cook cherry pie with Cuba Gooding Jr., stuff a turkey with Hugh Grant, and make fruitcake with Tom Cruise. In this book, she gives people the candid, unpredictable, and often hilarious advice she?'s known for'getting to the heart of the matter by telling people what they need to know, rather than what they want to hear.