Mario Cantone does many things, but he won’t Kindle.
“That thing makes me scared — it could come alive and suck you right into the ether!” says the “Sex in the City” star, who’s also a standup (comedian) guy.
“I like to hold a book,” he tells The Post’s Barbara Hoffman. “When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.”
Many of the books he buys are biographies — particularly those by Charlotte Chandler, whose Groucho Marx and Federico Fellini bios he adores. They’re light years away from the stuff he and others will recite from tomorrow at “Celebrity Autobiography,” an off-Broadway production at The Triad Theater, in which he’ll be reading from Zsa Zsa Gabor’s life story (which he hasn’t read ahead of time so it “sounds fresh.”)
Here’s what’s in Cantone’s library.
Very Valentine
by Adriana Trigiani
“She writes for a lot of women, but it’s more than girly stuff — she writes about Italian-Americans. There’s not a lot of people who do that, and she does it really well. This novel is about a woman whose family has had a shoe-making business for years . . . it’s very Italian, very New York, very fashion.”
Schulz and Peanuts
by David Michaelis
“I grew up with Peanuts. [Cartoonist Charles] Schulz was such an interesting guy — not the happiest man, and I think the family was upset that he spoke to his biographer about that. There are [comic] strips between chapters. It’s great.”
Duma Key
by Stephen King
“I worship him. Isn’t it interesting that in the last 10 years of his life, he’s getting stellar reviews, which he couldn’t buy earlier in his career? This one’s about a guy who had a horrible accident in which he lost an arm. He goes to the Florida Keys and starts to paint in this house other artists stayed at. [Only] he starts painting the future . . . It’s very suspenseful and beautifully written.”
American Prince
A Memoir
by Tony Curtis
“No matter how big you get in this business, you never feel you get your due. There’s a lot of regret in this book, but there’s funny s – – – too, especially about Shelley Winters, who [Curtis] couldn’t stand. This is a great autobiography, and it sounds just like him.”