Sophie and Me: Some of These Days

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Summary: Right up there with the Readers Digest...
Review: ...for flat, uninspired writing. This really should be called 'Sophie, but Mostly Me, Even though You Couldn't possibly care about me, and still won't on the last page.'

I know I sound bitter and bitchy, but I was deeply disappointed by this book. Even the back cover has bad grammar, and misleads readers into thinking they're going to learn about Sophie. Instead, we get 20% old information about Tucker, and 80% information about how starstruck the author still is.

Rating:
Summary: Regrets, Sophie Had A Few
Review: An easy read that exposes the complexity of stardom even before we were obsessed with stars as we are today. Sophie Tucker was obviously a sad woman underneath her bravado. It is fortunate that the author reached deep enough in to her past to see that her mentor was as full of faults as the rest of us real people, if not more. Thorougly enjoyable.

Rating:
Summary: Regrets, Sophie Had A Few
Review: An easy read that exposes the complexity of stardom even before we were obsessed with stars as we are today. Sophie Tucker was obviously a sad woman underneath her bravado. It is fortunate that the author reached deep enough in to her past to see that her mentor was as full of faults as the rest of us real people, if not more. Thorougly enjoyable.

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Summary: Sophie and Me:Some of These Days by Lois Young-Tulin
Review: I was very interested to read only the third book about the late, great Sophie Tucker. Not for nothing was she called "The First Lady of Show Business" and "The Last of the Red Hot Mammas". For those who have read the other Tucker books, there is not a lot that is new. Young-Tulin borrows heavily from Sophie's own memoir "Some of These Days", some of it used as supposed dialogue between herself and Sophie. The author also borrows from other sources such as my CD booklet notes for the CD JAZZ AGE HOT MAMA without giving credit.

I would still urge any and all to buy this book to learn about the great lady who set the stage and made the rules for all who followed . Young-Tulin has a great deal of affection for Sophie Tucker and tells the reader some family stories that have not been in the other books. She also includes some good photographs that we have not seen. The color cover photograph taken for Sophie's 50th year in show business should be enough to sell the book.

This book belongs on your self if you are interested in one of the greatest of all performers of world show business in the 20th century.

Rating:
Summary: Right up there with the Readers Digest...
Review: I was very interested to read only the third book about the late, great Sophie Tucker. Not for nothing was she called "The First Lady of Show Business" and "The Last of the Red Hot Mammas". For those who have read the other Tucker books, there is not a lot that is new. Young-Tulin borrows heavily from Sophie's own memoir "Some of These Days", some of it used as supposed dialogue between herself and Sophie. The author also borrows from other sources such as my CD booklet notes for the CD JAZZ AGE HOT MAMA without giving credit.

I would still urge any and all to buy this book to learn about the great lady who set the stage and made the rules for all who followed . Young-Tulin has a great deal of affection for Sophie Tucker and tells the reader some family stories that have not been in the other books. She also includes some good photographs that we have not seen. The color cover photograph taken for Sophie's 50th year in show business should be enough to sell the book.

This book belongs on your self if you are interested in one of the greatest of all performers of world show business in the 20th century.