Official Book Club Selection By Kathy Griffin

There's no fine line. You either love her or hate her.

Two-time Emmy winner and three-time Grammy nominee Kathy Griffin, flame-haired self-appointed denizen of The "D-List," may forever be associated with her much-publicized Emmy Award acceptance speech, in which she concluded, "Suck it, Jesus! This award is my god now!" (On the chance she might win, Griffin had a writer friend pen the speech, a kind of "rebuttal" to the endless stream of winners who thank god while hypocritically living hedonistic lives.*)

She was also famously fired for a joke she perpetuated on the red-carpet in 2005, which she refers to in her book as "Fanning-Gate." Griffin was hired by E! Entertainment Television to "replace" the heavily sequined Joan and Melissa Rivers, who had just been inexplicably awarded an $8 million contract with The TV Guide Channel.

Griffin notes that since she's far from a "fashionista," and a wholly different type of performer, she opted out of "traditional" questions and commentary. She was given the "second" commentator position to blowhard diva Star Jones.

Irked by the "shout-outs" celebrities give each other when one lands in rehab ("It's so brave!"), she decided to perpetuate a prank. Her joke: angelic 10-year-old Dakota Fanning has just entered rehab - do you [random celebrity walking down the carpet] have any words of support for her? While some celebrities clearly got the joke (witty "Will & Grace" star Sean Hayes responded, "Oh Dakota, don't go south... South Dakota!"), others did not. Of course, Griffin relished the media frenzy, and loved when iconic director Steven Spielberg publicly derided her (he was allegedly angry because he thought it would affect audiences for his then upcoming "War of the Worlds.").

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