Survivor

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Summary: Mommie Dearest Sequel
Review: I found this book after researching the beginnings and the ending of Mommie Dearest. I was lucky enough to find a sequel to the ultimate Hollywood biography of the most notorious stars of Hollywoodland. This was a good read, the book starts off where Mommie Dearest left off...at the reading of the will. It seems Christina's troubles all though life was only the beginning. She received a backlash of support and criticism right after the publishing. Survivor accounts for the talk shows, the play in London, and goes into the depths of the making of the film "Mommie Dearest". Christina also battles with Paramount on the screenplay, ultimately losing to the high-powered executives. Then there is a whole chapter devoted to Christina when she is stricken with a stroke, and eventual recovery. This book ends in 1988 when after a failed marriage, stroke and trips to Sedona, Arizona,Christina finally finds her way out of a place she calls "Lost".

Rating:
Summary: Want more!
Review: I got my copy at a used bookstore and it was full of underlines and personal notes from the nut who had it before me. I'll have to get a clean copy. Christina's is an exciting tale. I will never get bored of listening to anything she has to say. "Survivor" talks mostly about her life in the 1980s- her marraige, stroke, recovery, and how she published her book. It had new pictures not published in "Mommie Dearest".

I think it's insulting that people say she wrote her books as revenge for being disinherited, but even if that is true, GOOD! For someone who was so badly treated, I say more power to you.

I wonder if Christina still has all those letters Joan wrote to her while she was in boarding school? Imagine if she put just one of those up on e-bay!

It's too bad the people who discredit Christina are blinded by the fact that they don't want to believe their favorite movie star would do such a thing, or believe it's OK because she's a star. That's the whole point of her books.