People

By Guy D. Garcia

Now that she's had a taste of the writer's life, Carol Burnett is planning a second book, this time with her daughter Carrie Hamilton as co-author. Burnett's first volume began three years ago as a missive to her three children, but after 100 pages "it began to look more like a book than a letter." Now a best seller, One More Time chronicles her sometimes difficult Los Angeles upbringing and concludes with Burnett landing her first big-time job. "It's not a show-business book," cautions the author. "It's an inventory -- my take on growing up." Burnett, who starred in last week's mini-series Fresno and has just finished a tour promoting her memoir, intends to start work with Hamilton next year on a book tentatively titled Under One Roof. It will be about their experiences while Hamilton was working to overcome her drug addiction, and they will write alternating chapters. The book "will be an account of a scared mother and a scared kid who went through this separately and came out on the other side," says Burnett, 53. Hamilton, 22, who is a cast member of the TV series Fame, adds impishly, "It's going to be about our relationship, about mother and daughter, about adolescence and menopause." At which news, Mom yelps as her daughter laughs happily.