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Summary: Not interesting to read, but makes a good point about actors
Review: This book is neither interesting nor educational(regarding Hollyowood, I mean). However, it makes [unintentionally] one excellent point about actors: Brad Davis' life and career show that not only women are treated as "piece of meat" in Hollywood; it also applies to men, who happen to be handsome, sexy, etc. Looks can help actors' career and they can also destroy it, if actors are not allowed "out of their stereotypes" or if they become too impressed with themselves. Maybe Davis was not handsome per se, but there was an undeniable and irresistible sensuality/mystery about him. You can almost feel it, watching his films and looking at the photos. Davis' wife stayed with him, despite of all the hell he put her through, because she had always been desperately in love with him. And now she is still angry. She testifies in the book that Davis was self-destructive, unstable, and careless person, who was a hustler in his young days and later spent many nights on the town, "cruising and boozing". Yet, she is still afraid to admit who he really was. Why write this book, then? This book is very depressing and certainly is very uninspiring to AIDS-affected people, their families, gay people, and even young actors, who are starting in the business. I feel for Susan Bluestein as a woman, who chose a difficult life and a difficult love, but she does not seem to be a person, who knew Davis best. May be there is somebody else, or may be noone could ever really know him...In any case, Davis's made an important contribution to the world of cinema.
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Summary: A GREAT book!
Review: This book was fascinating. The story of an actor, his struggles in life career and with himself. The author wrote so honestly and passionately. This was a book about people I won't forget
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This book was truthful and heart wrenching of susan's life with Brad Harris. She told his life honestly and it is a book worth reading. I felt bad when the sad person bad rated the book having the nerve to say it just told of Susan's life. Very untrue. This woman told us so much detail about brad.Things that were so private yet she wanted all of the truth to come out. I can only imagine how hard it was for her to write this book. I am sure it was like re living it all again.Brad wanted this book written and helped her and outlined it in his last days. what a great woman Susan is and how she dealt with so much along the way until the end. Regardless of what his mistakes and poor judgements were in his life she stood by him.I feel if he did not have susan he would have died along time earlier.
susan is a wonderful woman and her book was sad, heart breaking, honest and worth reading. So interesting you can't put it down. I read it in 2 sittings. From Susans and brad's stories we can learn and change so much of our selves for the better.
This book is a must read. If your looking for gossip and and details on who brad slept with etc. as the other person seems to have wanted and bad rated the book, then this is not the book for you.You can read star magazine if thats what you want.
If you want Honesty and situations that Brad and susan and even there daughter Alexandra have gone through, it will make you think twice and appreciate your life and think about things you want to change in your life, then this is the book for you.
Rest In Peace Brad Davis.
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Summary: One side of a harrowing story
Review: This week I picked up 'After Midnight' at the library, and read it in less than 24 hours. It was riveting, poignant, honest (from Susan's standpoint), sad, horrific, very darky comical, and ultimately redeeming. Irony of ironies, I finished it yesterday, September 8th, the 13th anniversary of Brad's death. I wasn't even aware of what day it was. As for what Susan wrote, she wrote it from her point of view, and she knew things about Brad and had experiences with him that others didn't know about. Just as others knew things about him and had experiences with him that she didn't know about and still doesn't. So, it isn't fair to judge her and say 'Oh, she was just in denial'; maybe she was/is, but that isn't the point. She was trying to write the history about a relationship of a man and a woman over a roughly 20 year time span. Hopefully, one of these days, more people will come forward, and we will be told their true stories about Brad as well, in order to better understand him.
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