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Summary: Honest, Funny & Entertaining
Review: Mr. Hagman has a way with words that lulls you into a comfort zone and before you know it you feel as if you're sitting and listening to an old friend telling tall (and absolutely true) tales about his life. He's honest about his relationships and his own shortcomings without stripping his soul (embarrassingly) bare as some autobiographers are prone to do. Instead Larry keeps it real but light and he makes reading his book a truly entertaining experience, which is all I ever ask of any book. Whether you liked him best as Tony Nelson or J.R. Ewing or both, it's worth getting to know the man behind the characters he gave life to.
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Summary: A Whole Lotta Fun
Review: There's a whole lotta fun in this autobiography. Hagman is a great teller of hilarious stories. It seems amazing he survived long enough to need a liver transplant, that's how wild some of his earlier adventures were. The transplant tale is inspirational and informative too. Being a fan of his helps, but Hagman's story is really an inspired blueprint of living with gusto no matter of the times are good or bad. Hagman has lived, and readers get to laugh. That's a good value, if you ask me.
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Summary: THIS book has it ALL! 5 stars!
Review: This book has it all. I could not put it down. It takes you from the Larry Hagman who had about 30 cents in his pocket, to the wheeling & dealing of his contract on "Dallas". It is funny, it is sad. It is the closest you can get to knowing the man without being married to him. It is full of advice & philosophies that I feel will enhance my own life. It truly is an intimate look at the life of one of the greatest actors and entertainers that ever lived. When I closed the last page of the book, I realized that without knowing it, I was reading a love story. In Hollywood where stars change spouses like the seasons, Larry Hagman has been married to his wife "Maj" for almost 50 years! After reading the book, upon reflection, I remembered how Larry was advised by his wife, how he has always treated her with respect & admiration. You can still see the sparkle in his eye when reading the words he writes about his wife. Their relationship is truly one of equals. It is heartwarming to see a man who is wise enough to know that nothing can replace the love of one good woman, and a best friend for life. The book is written in his own words and style, and you can tell by reading it that it was not done by some ghost writer looking to make a buck. The only problem with the book is that when I finished it, I wanted to pick up the phone, call Larry, and say "Hey let's go fishing". He truly seems like an old friend by the end of the book!
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Summary: Now, who can play HIM in the movie version?
Review: With rumors abounding about the casting in the in-the-works big screen adaptation of the hit series "Dallas", I summit that the life of star Larry Hagman is more enticing than any episode of the landmark series.
Hagman, along with co-author Todd Gold, has written a thoroughly fascinating autobiography of a man that is a complex as any ever to be a Hollywood mainstay. Like his birthplace of Texas, Hagman is wide and vast and most intriguing. Telling of his beginnings as the offspring of Broadway legend Mary Martin and his lawyer-father, the actor reveals his many highs and lows in his ascent to the heights of iconic status. He lets us in on his "experiments" with drugs, his "lean" years as a struggling actor, his marriage to his beloved Maj, his television successes (both "I Dream of Jeannie and "Dallas", as well as the many featured roles in big and small screen films), and his interactions with the famous and not-so-familiar. With a wry wit and genuine humility, the star comes across as a man at peace with himself and so self-assured that he can alternately and honestly tell of his strengths and shortcomings. He may have never won an award for his distinctive television characters but to his legion of fans, he is a winner.
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