Weeb Weeb từ Karkha, Uttar Pradesh, India

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2019-12-23 04:31

Violin Trio - Tam Tấu Violon Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mèo Ú Sáu Múi

I read this book in one night. I rarely do that. In fact, I usually take about three weeks to read a book, with interruptions for THE DAILY SHOW, work and a social life. But this story interested me on several levels. First, without being a fan of hers, I grew up watching Lucille Ball on TV. She is in my DNA the way THE WIZARD OF OZ is in my DNA. It is virtually impossible for an American of my generation to have ignored I LOVE LUCY, which was shown daily on one of the nine or so available TV channels (three in most parts of the country.) So, curiosity about the workings of the show has often led me to reading an article or a book about it. I've watched many documentaries about the home life of Lucy and Desi. I can't watch an original STAR TREK without having a strange feeling when, at the closing credits, the word "Desilu" flashes on the screen. I start thinking how strange it is that the stars of a little situation comedy came to own a huge Hollywood studio, divorce each other and then simply dominate television production for ten years. (Kill me if I exaggerate, but don't say producing and starring in I LOVE LUCY and then being the landlords to just about every studio used in network filming wasn't a big deal for a couple who, in 1949, were considered washed up.) When I noticed Lee Tannen's I LOVED LUCY in the book store I flipped it over and was surprised to see it was written by a man younger than myself. If he'd merely been a fan writing a biography his age wouldn't have surprised me, but, reading the jacket, I saw he had known Lucille Ball quite well. In the last decade of her life, Lucille Ball played board games several times a week with the author. She'd call him up and ask him to drop by. A friendship developed. The writing is good in several respects. The anecdotes ring true, the history of the friendship, with its ups and downs, is completely believable and the voice is consistent. I do not get the sense this was ghost-written. The chief reason I recommend this is that it chronicles a friendship of a sort that is all too often ignored; the friendship between a young, gay man and a straight, older woman. This is not the sort of boundary-crashing gay-straight friendship as is chronicled in biographies of other starlets. The friendship between Lucille Ball and Lee Tannen is respectful and affectionate. Occasionally there is a falling out and the pain Tannen feels is genuine, but he is not describing a tragic situation. Tannen describes a woman whose best days are long behind her, but he reveals her as a star almost immune to stardom. She really does want to play Parchesi and swap wisecracks. Finally, Tannen describes his and Lucille's final parting. I have stressed this is not a tragic story but the scene he describes, in unembellished prose, could be the centerpiece of a tragic play. The actress, fully realizing she will never see her friend again, calls on her store of theatricality in a gut-wrenching moment. Again, it is very believable. I wish more people were aware of this book.

Người đọc Weeb Weeb từ Karkha, Uttar Pradesh, India

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.