The Legs Are The Last To Go by Diahann Carroll - copyright 2008 - hardcover book with dustjacket is in good condition - dustjacket is in very good condition with minor edge wear - book inside has torn or missing pages .....former owner's name written in front & back pages
Signed Card attached to 1st page "To Glenn Diahann Carroll"
At age 70, singer-actress Carroll, a Golden Globe and Tony Award winner,
was described in a 2006 rave review by Stephen Holden in the New York Times
as delivering a song “like an emotional volcano,” and the label works
equally well for this radiant autobiography, bubbling over with sincere
self-insights as well as a potent underlying theme of the “immense
cruelties” and racial politics of showbiz. Revealing personal struggles
with her mother and men (she details her marriage to singer Vic Damone),
she pulls no punches in detailing conflicts with such major figures as
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Pearl Bailey and Samuel Goldwyn. Beginning with her
Harlem childhood, she traces her life from the High School of Music and
Art, modeling and early club performances to theatrical triumphs (No Strings ; Sunset Boulevard ), TV (Julia ; Dynasty
), her grandchildren and plastic surgery, plus painful memories of
racism. An outstanding chapter probes the “art-directed Negro squalor”
and other “demeaning” aspects of the 1959 film Porgy and Bess ,
a “cliché of noble poverty as reimagined by some very talented white
men.” What emerges is an astute analysis of her career along with
descriptions of the highs and lows of an often glamorous life, whether
she performs at dazzling Vegas venues or in an intimate cabaret space.
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