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Summary: THE WAY WE LIVED THEN
Review: Mr. Dunne can work the room no matter where he is, no matter what social strata. I would have had an anxiety attack had I been face-to-face with Betsy Bloomingdale. Yet, this why I love Mr. Dunne. Reading about Betsy, she retained the warm, kind, classy image that I imagined her to have from various books and magazines. I loved being a fly-on-the-wall when Mr. Dunne was in Washington since I knew so little about politics. It was fun the way he scribed it in the pages. I feel safe reading Dominick's stories - although I feel like I am there, I don't have the real fear!
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Summary: Hollywood as it used to be
Review: The photographs in the book are fascinating, especially those of the late Natalie Wood, at her most fetching. It makes you sad, because she looked so vital, making it hard to think of her tragic death.The text tells rather nasty or 'so-what?' stories I think everybody who's interested in celebrities already pretty much knows. The really interesting writing comes at the end, when the author sinks so low he has to move to (gulp) Oregon, effectively becoming "trailer trash," and sells his treasured celebrity coasters, among other glittering tsatskes. Praise be to the Higher Power, Mr. Dunne clawed his way back to the middle (he's no Joan Didion, let's face it) and has become one of our most illustrious high-class-tabloid heroes. He's gone through some horrendous tragedies, and I toast his chutzpah and commitment to writing. He's amazingly resiliant, if only for the horrible experiences he went through with the cruel and crude Frank Sinatra. I'm glad ol' blue eyes stuck around long enough to see Dominick Dunne still standing, better than he ever did. Of all the pictures in the book there is one I keep going back to. It's on page 33, and it makes me cry.
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Summary: Beautiful collection of photos
Review: This book is filled with beautiful photographs of almost every star imaginable with personal anecdotes from Mr. Dunne to go with them. There are beautiful photos of Natalie Wood and a young (brunette) Elizabeth Montgomery. Mr. Dunne's life has certainly had its ups and downs, but this is NOT another celebrity pity party...he writes of the bad times he has faced, as well as the good, in a very matter of fact style, which is (thankfully) not at all whiny. But, again, the real treasure here are all the beautiful photographs of beautiful people in beautiful places. Thanks, Mr. Dunne, for sharing them with us.
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