Both Sides of the Rainbow

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Summary: A Fun Read!
Review: A fun read. A delightful turn of phrase. An absolute "hoot" of hilarious vignettes. A masterful story of hide and seek of a different kind. I found myself so drawn into the story that I couldn't put it down. The storyline is compelling. The major characters are drawn with a fine pen and the descriptive scenes are written by a master. This book should appeal to a diverse audience of all ages and of varied tastes.

Rating:
Summary: A Fun Read!
Review: A fun read. A delightful turn of phrase. An absolute "hoot" of hilarious vignettes. A masterful story of hide and seek of a different kind. I found myself so drawn into the story that I couldn't put it down. The storyline is compelling. The major characters are drawn with a fine pen and the descriptive scenes are written by a master. This book should appeal to a diverse audience of all ages and of varied tastes.

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Summary: Couldn't put it down........
Review: A wonderfully funny book that will make you fall out of your chair laughing about the side of Hollywood you don't always get to hear about. But it is also about the need to be loved and accepted,and the paths you choose to reach that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

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Summary: A book to buy and share with your friends when you finish
Review: Emminently readable and engaging. Chapter after chapter of explosive laughing out loud. Tony lives the astonishing and enchanted dreams of many a child, and survives intact to realize the contenting fulfillment of his adult dreams, too. An exuberant, heart-warming escape from the trap of the shallowness that is Hollywood, with many entertaining anecdotes with zany friends and family. You may have heard some fragments of these narratives about Hollywood before, but you never heard them the way they are presented through the eyes of Tony Somertino! A book to buy and share with friends when you finish.

Rating:
Summary: A book to buy and share with your friends when you finish
Review: Emminently readable and engaging. Chapter after chapter of explosive laughing out loud. Tony lives the astonishing and enchanted dreams of many a child, and survives intact to realize the contenting fulfillment of his adult dreams, too. An exuberant, heart-warming escape from the trap of the shallowness that is Hollywood, with many entertaining anecdotes with zany friends and family. You may have heard some fragments of these narratives about Hollywood before, but you never heard them the way they are presented through the eyes of Tony Somertino! A book to buy and share with friends when you finish.

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Summary: Both Sides of the Rainbow
Review: Gay, straight, bi - who cares! This book is hilarious. You will never think of certain Hoolywood types in the same way again. They are as insecure and fake as any wannabe on the corner! Tony's life is a fun read with a lot of heart and thought. Nice & short chapters make for a fast and fun read.

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Summary: Hilarious
Review: Gay, straight, bi - who cares! This book is hilarious. You will never think of certain Hoolywood types in the same way again. They are as insecure and fake as any wannabe on the corner! Tony's life is a fun read with a lot of heart and thought. Nice & short chapters make for a fast and fun read.

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Summary: Juicy gossip-fest, but who is who?
Review: I can't believe none of the other reviews mention my two major sentiments: CURIOSITY about who Tony Somertino is supposed to be, who Brik Moore is supposed to be, who Tony's group of gay celeb friends is supposed to be. It's like a whole bunch of blind items compressed into novel form, and I'd love to know who was being described.

Also, sorry, but incredible disgust at the quality of writing and, more to the point, editing of this book. I found typos on almost every single page that wouldn't be permitted in a technical manual, let alone a published novel. And the writer, although funny, needed a much stronger editing hand to rein in the Harlequinesque style of describing love, lovemaking, and most of all, fashion.

Very entertaining cotton candy for the brain, but with all the people working on it, the final product should have been a lot more professional.

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Summary: Both Sides of the Rainbow
Review: I couldn't stop laughing while reading this book. I was depressed when I picked up the book but my mood was totally turned around after reading it.

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Summary: I know who he is...
Review: I lived in the same building and ate at the French Market every morning, as Tony Somertino did, though we didn't know each other. I know who he is and who "Brik" is. Once you know who Brik is, it's easy to find out the identity of the actress he married. Brik divorced her as his career was sinking and hers was taking off. She eventually totally eclipsed him and everyone else, practically defining the 1970's with her beauty and style. She is still on the scene today, though in a diminished capacity. And Brik was indeed one of the biggest stars on television, a man making millions and millions of dollars, consistently, from the mid-sixties to the mid-eighties, in one hit series after another. Brik's career never seemed to have any valleys, only peaks, but as the 70's melted into the 80's, his long ride at the top finally began to end. I was very surprised to learn who Brik actually was at the time because there has never been a shred of gossip about his sexuality, and that's true some 20-odd years after those French Market breakfasts. (And I've read just about everything from Kenneth Anger to Boze Hadleigh.)

Tony was very cute, a bit femme, and he obviously possessed the whiptail of a stringray when riled. You can bet that Brik, 60'ish now, remarried with grown children, gave Tony an ironclad settlement agreement, which he would likely have breached had it not been for the opening "agent receiving a mysterious manuscript" bit. Tony's certainly no angel, but he's not stupid. Perhaps it was a bid for an increase in hush money. And how's that for a blind item!

God apparently doesn't hand out looks and talent simultaneously, because, even with the help of two ghosts, Both Sides of the Rainbow is as thin as silk with none of the sheen, but I think it accurately reflects the man who lived the story. I recall him as being a bit of a snob because of his status as the "manstress" of a major television star, and this snobbery shines through, even with all the editing. Yes, the cars really were beautiful. And, yes, the knee socks have got to go.

This is just my opinion, as I have given this book to a friend who really enjoyed it...however, I filled him in as to the real players' names in what was, to me, an overwrought depiction of one long, teenaged, temper tantrum (with the exception of the parts about his family, which were truly hilarious and should be cut out and expanded).