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Summary: Michael Berin is a LIAR!!
Review: The Documentary on TV was rehearhed and Michaels's Acting was atrocious! He has to be doing it for money! Who would trash someone they truly Loved!Any People Person knows He is a Liar!!
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I think he is honest because after reading this book I saw Bergin on A&E telling his story. I feel that he did honestly love her. However Caroline was a money hungry woman. Who did not want to just settle. She want more than she could handle and unfortunately her life ended because she followed a wallet and not her heart. Its really to bad that her parents went to sue the Kennedy estate because I do not feel the deserve a penny. No one force thier daughter to marry John F. Kennedy Jr. It is not the Kennedy's fault that both the daughters were killed. It can happen thats life. I guess they must feel a whole lot better with 20 million since they lost two daughters?! How can you place a price on your children? Makes you wonder about Caroline's up-bringing? And why she was such a confused and insecure person.
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Summary: bad news
Review: Forget this slimy book written by a man whose career must be down the tubes.
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Summary: Give This A Chance
Review: This book is a quick read and full of interesting gossip, and frankly, I believe it more than other books or magazines because it came from the horse's mouth. Bergin has the guts to come forward with his story; frankly, I don't care if he makes money off of it because he kept his mouth shut for many years before coming forward. Why should others write about him and benefit? This book shows, once again, that Camelot was a myth. Carolyn was just as flawed as the rest of them, despite her angelic bleach blonde hair and perfect fashion sense.
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Summary: Good guy
Review: I don't think Michael deserves all the bad press. He has a right to tell his story. I think so far, he is the only one who has portrayed Carolyn, in a good light despite her "flaws", flaws like the rest of us have. I think they really loved each other, (I don't get sleeping with another's wife) he probably loved more. He comes across as a genuine, down to earth guy. Did you see him on T.V with his son and at his daughter's birth? He is brave and lucky, becos despite all the hurt, he put his heart on the line each time becos he truly cared. It is better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all. Carolyn had issues, lots of them, she was a user at times, but I guess she was torn and tormented in her heart. On some level, we have all had emotional battles.
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Summary: Can someone explain this discrepancy?
Review: Why is it that Michael Bergin, who genuinely had a relationship with Carolyn Bessette for years and is merely trying to tell his story, is lambasted in the media for being a cad, a parasite, and exploiting the tragically deceased for financial gain - however - the mother of Carolyn and Lauren Bessette sued the Kennedy family (in lieu of John - her daughters' husband and brother-in-law) for wrongful death claims on each of her daughters and privately agreed to a settlement of $20 million from them? John also DIED in that plane crash. How does it make sense that money should become the focus of that tragedy? How do you arrive at a financial sum your daughters are worth? My heart went out to John's sister, Caroline Kennedy, to withstand that disgrace. I guess we can surmise where Carolyn learned her behavior. I just do not understand how Michael Bergin is a cad yet the mother is tragically bereaved. Please.
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Summary: Beauty, Insecurity and the mirror....
Review: She grows up and hears that she is beautiful in the minds of other people if not in her own. She develops her relationships and lovers as mirrors in which to obtain endless reassurance of the beauty and love and charisma that she is labeled with but does not feel inside. She wants desperately to have her insides match the outside personna so she becomes excruciatingly adept with her "packaging". She is a consummate player at worst; a lonely, misguided, immature and insecure individual at best. The man she "used" appears decent, nice, misguided and still unable to accept that he was "played". Too bad that he had to tell his story because the backlash is bound to be largely negative. Doesn't seem too different from another princess's tragic life story and her men, does it? Move on Michael. You will understand it all in time because you are NOW really loved.
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Summary: Carolyn Not Alone
Review: I read it cover to cover and learned some info about Carolyn that indeed confirmed what type of person that she truly was (and truly was complete opposite of what the public thought of her when she was alive)- a complicated, money hungry, attention grabbing gorgeous woman - much like what every other woman wants in this life. Who wouldn't want to be rich, beautiful, and famous? She surely worked in the industry that would put her in the spotlight for this kind of life. Who can blame her? She is just like most women in this world and is no different from most of the women I know. She sought out the glamour and fame and did not realize that this life was not for her until she was actually living it. I had the pleasure of meeting her when she was at CK (pre-JFK) because I worked for Gucci and our paths crossed at a party and she was charming and delightful. I was struck by her simply because of her bright big smile and her contagious laugh and unfortunantely we never saw much of that after JFK. She just couldn't handle the fame. I don't think this Bergin guy was the root of her depression and the break up of her marriage. Although he would like to be. She would never fall for trash like him but she was a sucker for a pretty face just like most of us girls in the fashion world. Maybe that's why she was always seen with a beautiful man on her arm! She just used Bergin as a clutch to land JFK and everyone knows that. Hasn't anyone read "The Rules"?! Smart woman!
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Summary: Poor Michael Bergin...
Review: does not even know today how played he was by Carolyn Bessette! Carolyn was no innocent. She worked in Boston nightclubs for years before she landed in NYC. Carolyn Bessette was a girl with a social climbing, gold digger agenda. She was narcissistic and obsessed with control of everyone and everything around her. Carolyn became entranced with Michael Bergin - a genuinely nice guy who happened to be gorgeous. He was not quite her speed socially, however, so she set out to "groom" him. Their relationship was volatile because Carolyn could not reconcile her need for status versus her attraction to Michael's love for her. Then, in walks poor innocent JFK Jr., on the heels of his mother's death, and searching for a "suitable" mate. Carolyn reinvents herself into an upscale Darryl Hannah and bewitches poor JFK Jr. into marriage. Michael had more humanity for "John Jr." than Carolyn ever did, and eventually, John figured it all out for himself. He knew his marriage to Carolyn was a huge mistake and a disaster. Yes, Carolyn was quite toxic in her machinations. Carolyn was an operator but she landed WAY over her head. John was an incredible person who never deserved any of this nonsense. He too was a very nice guy who deserved the very best from people. It is heartbreaking that John's life was so tragically affected by such a dishonorable person.
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Summary: Fortunately We Believe In Everybody's Chance to Speak
Review: The Other Man is the much criticized autobiography by Michael Bergin about his relationship with the late Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Some say, shame on him. I have to say Bergin should get his turn. We tend to want to lionize the whole Kennedy mystique. Well among a great deal of good, there has been a whole lot of sadness and tragedy. Let's not forget, that this is the United States. We believe in freedom of expression. Just because Bergin doesn't have a wonderful Camelot story to tell doesn't make him the bad guy. It's no secret that John Kennedy and Carolyn Bessette weren't having the Camelot marriage. Much has been publicized about that even before their tragic deaths. Michael Bergin was "the other man". And, Carolyn Bessette was apparently a fairly complex and puzzling woman. She had a relationship going with Michael Bergin for a pretty significant time before her marriage to John F. Kennedy, Jr. He thought it was exclusive. It obviously wasn't. And, by Bergin's account, she returned to him a few times even after the marriage. Bergin's name has been dragged through the mud and this is his chance to tell his story. In reading The Other Man, I found Bergin to be lowkeyed and honest -- from his point of view. It's no Pulitzer Prize material but I don't begrudge Michael Bergin his chance to tell his story. For those who read everything that's ever written about the Kennedy's, this is one you will want to consider along with all of the other books that have been published. Despite what grandfather Joseph Kennedy may have wished to portray, his family was human and flawed. Much good has been done by the family. Some of its members haven't always shown their best selves in public, or in what they may have thought was in private. But ultimately, they seem to be decent human beings trying to live life in the public spotlight -- clearly not an easy life. And all in all, the Kennedy's have certainly been a significant part of recent American History. Bergin's book deserves as much consideration as any other Kennedy Insider story has received. Daniel J. Maloney
Saint Paul, Minnesota
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