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Though Anthony Perkins played roles as diverse as a lawman of the old West in The Tin Star and Eugene Grant in the play Look Homeward Angel, he is best remembered for his performance as the maniacal son of a monstrous mother in Psycho. In Split Image, Charles Winecoff explains how Psycho pigeon-holed Perkins into similar roles and stagnated his professional life. His private life was equally vexatious--his father died when he was 5 and his mother controlled his finances until she died. He was married for 19 years but remained an active homosexual, engaging in a lifestyle that ultimately led to his death from AIDS in 1992.
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He was being groomed to replace the late James Dean. Then, in 1960, his portrayal of the murderous Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho destroyed Anthony Perkins' burgeoning career as a romantic leading man. His performance became a landmark in motion picture history—creating an image that eerily paralleled an offscreen life equally as secretive, conflicted, and fractured.
The son of a legendary stage actor, Perkins showed great promise as a Broadway star. But his constant struggle with his homosexuality resulted in a desperate search for acceptance that led from New York to Hollywood to Europe. His later attempts to create a new image for himself as a conventional family man were tragically cut short by his death from AIDS in 1992. Including interviews with more than 300 of Perkins' friends, co-stars, relatives, and lovers, filled with revealing anecdotes about Orson Welles, Audrey Hepburn, Rock Hudson, and many others, this intimate biography separates fact from fiction as it explores the complex life of this enigmatic, tortured man. Meticulously researched, written with rare candor and compassion, Split Image is both a harrowing look at life in the Hollywood closet and a poignant human drama that will change your vision of Anthony Perkins forever.
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This is NOT the latest edition of this book!.......2006-05-31
I don't know why Amazon has not corrected this - when you type in "ANTHONY PERKINS" you get "SPLIT IMAGE" - not "ANTHONY PERKINS." I don't get it.
Plus this edition is out of print - and out-of-date.
There is a NEW 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION, revised and updated, that just came out in May 2006 - titled "ANTHONY PERKINS: SPLIT IMAGE."
That is the best edition of this book.
Do not buy this old edition.
Sincerely,
Charles Winecoff, the author
Great book!.......2005-11-26
I truely enjoyed this book. It was well written and very informative! This author did Anthony Perkins justice!
Here we go again.......2005-05-29
Beginning to wonder if any 50s male icons happened to be hetero. The subject matter was so temptingly juicy that the author could not resist, no doubt in the pursuit of honesty, to shine his light on the sordid side of this life. But an objectively equal amount of time was devoted to explanations and Perkins' attempts to balance his frustrating existence. In short, the book probably is no different in outcome than the life it chronicles and as such is effective biography.
Too Much Special Pleading, Too Much Graphic Detail.......2004-11-17
This is a very readable biography, and focuses upon a very interesting (if sad) story of a great (but partially wasted) talent. With that said, however--
The author harps too much on how terrible and pernicious it was to live in the closet, and how awful and repressive America was in the 50s.
At times the author lets his distaste for the bad career and personal choices Perkins made seep through. (No biography is totally objective, of course, but still . . .)
The author goes into too much graphic detail about Perkins's somewhat kinky sexual life. Perhaps one or two details about this subject would have "spiced up" the biography, but honestly, we don't need to "get into bed" with Perkins even once, let alone multiple times.
And one gap that really isn't the author's fault--Perkins's widow and children didn't cooperate with him. As a result, there is a huge gap in the latter part of the book.
Not terrible, but no classic--perhaps even an object lesson in what not to do in a biography.
Tough love.......2004-05-18
Yes, this biography of a sometimes talented actor - limited by his own hand - is often hard to read, even harsh. But in the end, this reader anyway was left feeling strangely wistful, as if the time had come to say goodbye to an old, difficult, contentious friend. In that respect, I feel the book is quite honest and ultimately empathetic. Perkins' life was certainly controversial, and he clearly dropped friends along the way as it suited his changing needs. But the author conveys the goodness and strength of Perkins' final years with his family, despite his illness and his myriad secrets. I knew several people who knew Perkins, and this book comes about as close as their accounts while illuminating more. A very complex puzzle.
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More than two decades after his death, John Wayne is still America's favorite movie star. He has become a cultural icon whose stature seems to grow with the passage of time. In this illuminating biography, Ronald L. Davis focuses on Wayne's human side, portraying a complex personality defined by frailty and insecurity as well as by courage and strength.
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A well done look at the Duke.......2005-08-09
His friends & fans simply call him Duke.
More than 20 yrs. after his death he is still coming in 1st or 2nd in polls askings Americans who their favorite actor is.
Why is this?
Come on, he's dead already!
Beginning in 1930 with THE BIG TRAIL & ending in 1976 with THE SHOOTIST, DUKE has been bigger than life, a symbol to the world of the ruggedness, tough independence, personal conviction, & courage that make up the American character.
I love him not just because he was a great actor, but because he played roles that showed us an America to be proud of. He was the type of guy you wouldn't mind sitting with in a bar for a few drinks &, definitely, you'd love him at your back in a fight!
The author of this book will help you understand & appreciate John Wayne the way I & millions the world over do.
You will never look at John Wayne, the actor & the man, in the same way ever again.
He is my favorite American Actor of all time, and, before I sold the collection a couple of years ago, I owned nearly all his films on Video.
Not the best book out there, but still informative.
A good look at John Wayne without the scholarly commitment.......2000-05-30
This biography succeeds in its evenhanded portrayal of John Wayne. No doubt some will criticize it because Davis doesn't spend his time eschewing Wayne's politically incorrect opinions, but neither does the author lionize Wayne the man. What you have left is a concise and readable 400 page biography that covers all the movies and all the wives. Davis gives his opinions as to why the Wayne legend still survives, and what his fellow actors thought of him way back when.
Interesting is the story behind the making of the ALAMO, a film he produced, directed and starred in, the subsequent Oscar campaign, and the aftermath. Also interesting is Wayne's relationship with director John Ford, whom he loved, and their disagreements.
Outstanding.......2000-03-13
Though very in-depth in explaining each movie John Wayne appeared, the book lacks somewhat in explaining who John Wayne was. In comparison, Donald Dewey's recent biography of Jimmy Stewart gives the reader a more detailed examination of Stewart than Ronald Davis does of Wayne. Ronald Davis also relies too much on the self-centered Pilar Wayne, the third Mrs. John Wayne, for anectdotal information. Davis's use of interviews with Harry Carey, Jr. are quite valuable and illuminating. It's a shame that Davis didn't thoroughly interview other actors who shared the screen with Duke, including Ron Howard, about whom Duke thought highly or Kim Darby (Mattie in True Grit), who didn't like the Duke (remember, True Grit was filmed in 1968). Mr. Davis does an excellent job explaining Duke Wayne's desert years in the thirties doing one-reel westerns. One has to admire Wayne's persistance. One note Pilar Wayne reveals through Ronald Davis that puts Wayne in a very bad light and has changed my personal views toward him to the strongly negative, was Duke Wayne's insistance that a pregnant Pilar get an abortion. The baby was inconvenient as Duke was in the divorce court with number two wife Chata in a highly charged divorce battle. The baby was killed but Duke Wayne received a fairly good divorce settlement. A conservative icon, when the chips were down, was capable of a selfish, dishonest, sordid, dirty act. The Duke was a great actor and icon but was not a good person. He was not a great American.
--Derek Leaberry
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A real gem for teachers and students of Drama........1998-03-30
From the moment this book arrived I was impressed! It covers everything that every other book on Mask in theatrical training doesn't.
The book begins by giving an overview of the cultural and social uses of masks and many of the beliefs surrounding the "transformative" qualities attributed to masks. It goes on to discuss the use of mask in a historical framework and traces the theatrical uses of masks through some significant eras.
The real value of this book comes in the wide range of activities and exercises in the use of mask. Any teacher of Drama (from high school to university) can work with students through the exercises. They begin with the notion of "Neutral" and what the might mean for an actor in terms of movement and characterisation; then works through a range of increasingly defined masks to a complete "Complex Character" mask.
At all points in the process students are encouraged to experience what is offered, as well as asked to reflect and journalise about their experiences. The book could cover a course that continues for an entire year.
The book also provides templates for some basic masks, and I must say that my students (15 y.o boys) loved constructing them and putting them to use.
I recommend this book unreservedly and challenge any student or teacher to try to resist discovering the amazing effects of introducing masks into theatre training and Drama classes.
While many masks seek to conceal identity, this book offers a transparent and experiential approach to the use of mask. A must have for any serious student or teacher!
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"This book fills a void in bringing together Hollywood stereotyping and Latino self-representation in one study. With clarity and insight, Berg demonstrates why it is so important to take such an approach."
—Chon Noriega, author of
Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema
The bandido, the harlot, the male buffoon, the female clown, the Latin lover, and the dark lady—these have been the defining, and demeaning, images of Latinos in U.S. cinema for more than a century. In this book, Charles Ramírez Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts for the persistence of such images in U.S. popular culture. He also explores how Latino actors and filmmakers have actively subverted and resisted such stereotyping.
In the first part of the book, Berg sets forth his theory of stereotyping, defines the classic stereotypes, and investigates how actors such as Raúl Julia, Rosie Pérez, José Ferrer, Lupe Vélez, and Gilbert Roland have subverted stereotypical roles. In the second part, he analyzes Hollywood's portrayal of Latinos in three genres: social problem films, John Ford westerns, and science fiction films. In the concluding section, Berg looks at Latino self-representation and anti-stereotyping in Mexican American border documentaries and in the feature films of Robert Rodríguez. He also presents an exclusive interview in which Rodríguez talks about his entire career, from
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Spy Kids, and comments on the role of a Latino filmmaker in Hollywood and how he tries to subvert the system.
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Way before Rodeo Drive and the “pink palace” of the Beverly Hills Hotel were built, way before the namesake hillbillies, its zip code, and Eddie Murphy's detective techniques reaffirmed its place in popular culture, and way before its 1,001 mansions, Beverly Hills was comprised of wild canyons and ranchlands. Burton Green, one of the three original land developers of the Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas, named this place of severe terrain after Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, a 19th-century spa. Since its establishment in 1907, Beverly Hills, California, has been a crossroads for the great movers and shakers of the entertainment industry as well as the tycoons, world leaders, and flotsam and jetsam magnetized by the limelight. The vintage photographs in this provocative volume illustrate Beverly Hills's early transition from cow pastures to Hollywood's extremely illustrious bedroom community.
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Great Historical Photographs.......2007-03-03
This wonderful book provides many great black-and-white photographs of Beverly Hills, California. Unfortunately, none are in color. The first photographs date from 1900 and the last depict Beverly Hills just before 1940. There are many photos of Hollywood stars and their homes, including Pickfair, Falcon's Lair, and the Frances Marion estate There's also an entire chapter devoted to Greystone, the magnificent mansion built by Ned Doheny. I would have preferred the book have an index and more maps, but you'll find this a treasure trove of great images and well-written descriptions.
Great Trip Into Old Beverly Hills.......2007-01-22
A great book. Excellent photos and provides a wonderful overview of Beverly Hills in text and photos.
a rough and ready past.......2006-09-29
These are not your stereotypical images of Beverly Hills. Instead, the photos often show a Wild West-type ambiance that one might think better suited to Fargo or Dodge. Rather than to what is now a global catchphrase for affluence, ensconced within a megalopolis.
Which is part of the point of Wanamaker's story. He shows that there was a time when Beverly Hills and indeed Los Angeles was just a small town. Rather rough and seedy on occasion. With colourful characters, sometimes spouting grandiose development plans. The irony, of course, is that today's Beverly Hills surely exceeds all those often failed dreams.
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Josephine Baker in Art and Life: THE ICON AND THE IMAGE
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Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and philanthropist, whose images and cultural legacy have survived beyond the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Neither an exercise in postmodern deconstruction nor simple biography,
Josephine Baker in Art and Life presents a critical cultural study of the life and art of the Franco-American performer whose appearances as the savage dancer Fatou shocked the world.
Although the study remains firmly anchored in Josephine Baker’s life and times, presenting and challenging carefully researched biographical facts, it also offers in-depth analyses of the images that she constructed and advanced. Bennetta Jules-Rosette explores Baker’s far-ranging and dynamic career from a sociological and cultural perspective, using the tools of sociosemiotics to excavate the narratives, images, and representations that trace the story of her life and fit together as a cultural production.
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More Than Just a Hot Performer.......2007-07-03
Everyone in the 1920s knew who Josephine Baker was, and the image of her from that time has stuck with us; if you have a mental picture of her, it is probably of her lovely svelte black body dressed in little more than a skirt made of bananas, performing in a Paris dance hall. The image is so strong that it unfairly eclipses the other roles she played, and not just roles as a performer (and those roles in many media), but as spy, humanitarian, utopian reformer, and civil rights activist. It was in this latter role that Bennetta Jules-Rosette saw her when Baker took part as a speaker in the March on Washington in 1963. Jules-Rosette is a fan, but since she is also a professor of sociology and an expert in semiotics, her tribute comes with lots of footnotes. _Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image_ (University of Illinois Press) is not strictly a biography. The life history is here, of course, but not necessarily chronologically. Instead, the themes of Baker's life and the art she used in making her many stage and real-life personas are examined, showing how she deliberately manipulated sex and race roles to form the themes of her life and performance.
Baker was born in 1903 and grew up in St. Louis, performing on the streets and moving to vaudeville. She became a cast member of reviews such as _Shuffle Along_ and _Chocolate Dandies_, playing to enthusiastic reviews in New York when she did her comic routines. Among the many pictures included in this volume are those of Baker in clown outfit, including enormous shoes, but also, strangely, in blackface. It was just the first of her manipulations of racial roles. In her first movie in 1927, she played a stowaway who "is chased by crew members and shocks society matrons by falling into a coal bin, turning black, and then into a flour bin, turning white." She headed to Paris in 1925, and was a sensation, admired by Picasso and Hemingway. Alexander Calder did wire sculptures of her. She was used to performing in front of primitive or surrealistic sets, and it was Jean Cocteau himself who designed the banana skirt. Her performances wowed Paris, but sometimes did not go well when Baker traveled. In Vienna in 1928, priests and politicians tried to ban her threat to public morality, and rang bells as a warning to clear the streets when she entered the city. Baker did stage performances all her life, but had more important things on her mind. During World War II, she helped the Red Cross and the French Resistance. After the war, she started adopting children, twelve of them of diverse ethnic and national backgrounds. This was her "Rainbow Tribe", installed in her chateau at Les Milandes. Because of overoptimistic finances, she lost the chateau (and she and the tribe were rescued by, among others, Princess Grace of Monaco). When Baker toured the US, she forced theater owners to desegregate when she performed. There was a famous incident in 1951 at the Stork Club which did not admit blacks, but Baker arranged an admission, only to be ignored by the waiters. Columnist Walter Winchell was present, and Baker called upon him to witness the incident, but instead he attacked her on his radio program and wrote to J. Edgar Hoover requesting an FBI investigation of Baker's political activities, and of course Hoover obliged.
Baker died in 1975, having just opened to glowing reviews of a retrospective show in Paris. Thousands watched the procession and Paris came to a standstill. Jules-Rosette analyzes her continuing influence on chameleons like Madonna, Grace Jones, and Michael Jackson. Baker was a real original, though, formed by her times but deliberately forming herself and taking roles to transform herself artistically, with the larger goal of transforming the world. It was a lifetime of brilliant performances on and off stage, and fully worthy of the intellectual dissections Jules-Rosette has brought together in a readable and entertaining volume.
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Nowhere on Earth are sequels and the success that fosters them more apparent than in Hollywood's bejeweled bedroom, Beverly Hills. This continuation of the history begun in Arcadia Publishing's Images of America: Early Beverly Hills presents a compendium of vintage photographs depicting America's one community that's most synonymous with wealth. However, the Great Depression hit here, too, and the book depicts that as well as the subsequent recovery and boom years, homes of the stars, influence of the close proximity to Hollywood, and the chic shops and restaurants that keep the tourists coming. From the Brown Derby to the Beverly Theatre, from the Harold Lloyd Estate to Jack Warner's digs, from the Beverly Hills Hotel's changes to those that created a new Beverly Hills Civic Center, these are the Beverly Hills facts that have been the bases for all of those Hollywood fictions.
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Paramount groomed him to replace the late James Dean and become Hollywood's hottest heartthrob. But his landmark performance as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho killed that-and spawned an image of Anthony Perkins that eerily paralleled his conflicted, fractured off-screen life.
Anthony Perkins: Split Image insightfully and comprehensively documents the life of this great actor, who was forced to act the part of ladies' man while privately struggling with his own homosexuality, and chronicles his complicated search for acceptance.
Newly revised and updated for this tenth anniversary edition, Anthony Perkins: Split Image is both a harrowing look at life in the Hollywood closet and a poignant human drama that will change your vision of Anthony Perkins forever.
"Riveting...With his laser-beam of an eye, Winecoff lights up the hidden corners of Hollywood's golden age, as well as a dark age of homosexuality that needs to be understood by anyone who didn't live through it.…It's a page-turner." -James Gavin, author of Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker
"Charles Winecoff is a clever biographer. With his inside, creepy examination of Anthony Perkins, I was mesmerized by a dude I never thought I'd be able to stomach for more than a paragraph. Well done." -E!'s Ted Casablanca
"Anthony Perkins: Split Image is one of the deepest, darkest Hollywood stories ever told." -Robert Hofler, author of The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson
"Told with empathy and a sagacious eye for detail, Winecoff's lively chronicle of one of the screen's more formidable, if underrated, leading men perhaps should have been called Brokeback Hollywood Hills."-Stephen M. Silverman, author of David Lean and Dancing on the Ceiling: Stanley Donen and His Movies
"An important chronicle of a time when gay was still the ultimate taboo, one that Hollywood had especially little use for as it aggressively sold illusion and lies."-Michael Musto, from his Foreword
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The Essential Anthony Perkins.......2007-04-20
As an actor, Anthony Perkins has always fascinated me. In every role that I ever saw him play, he had this quality about him that made you feel that if you didn't listen to every word he said and watch every movement that he made, you were going to miss something of major importance. It's called stage presence and he had it by the bucketfuls. He was of course most noted for his portrayal of Norman Bates in PSYCHO and he captured that character so well that it was both the blessing and the curse of his career. Already, before Hitchcock's masterpiece, the powers that be behind Perkins' acting career saw him as a replacement for James Dean or as the new Gary Cooper or someone like him. They wrongly saw him as a macho romantic lead but after PSYCHO, they and the movie public only wanted him to play variations of the Norman Bates character. Charles Winecoff, in his revised tenth anniversary edition of his Perkins biography, ANTHONY PERKINS: SPLIT IMAGE captures valiantly both the personal and professional life of a Hollywood icon.
Perkins' acting career didn't begin on the movie screen; it began on the stage. His father was the famed actor, Osgood Perkins, who died during a perfomance at the age of thirty-seven when Anthony was only five. His mother was connected to theater people and saw that he learned his craft as a teenager in summer stock productions. Before his appearance in the movie PSYCHO, he had played the lead in at least two Broadway shows, one of which was as Eugene Gant in Ketti Frings' play LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL based on the Thomas Wolfe novel of the same name. Eugene Gant's sensitive character was one that would have suited Perkins' personality well and if the movie mobuls could have seen that these kinds of roles rather than the romantic lead roles were who Anthony should play, his film career might have taken a happier, more successful turn.
Anthony hadn't been in Hollywood long when he met Tab Hunter and the tongues began to wag concerning both men's sexual preference. Homosexuality in the 1950's and 1960's was not something to be tolerated in an actor's personal life and Anthony was quickly persuaded to not be seen with Tab in public too frequently. (Tab's autobiography indicated as well that he too was told to avoid too much contact with Anthony.) At the time, to make your homosexuality too public would have been a sure-fire way to kill a career before it even got started. Before, and after Tab Hunter, Perkins was linked with other (secretly) gay men, but psycho-analysis was revered at the time, and Anthony yearned to be as straight as so many people wished him to be. Why wouldn't he in the poisonous atmosphere of the time. At around forty, he met and married Berry Berenson and fathered two sons and I think for the rest of his life was convinced that his newly found heterosexuality and his role as husband and father was his salvation; at least that is what he told people.
The many miscastings and the perception of those who handed out the movie roles to Anthony Perkins that America couldn't handle an alternate lifestyle, hurt Perkins' acting career and he tried his hand at directing both plays and films with limited success. One of the reasons pointed out in the book for that limited success was Anthony's lack of confidence in himself. I tend to agree because when you are told constantly that the core of who and what you are is insufficient, that would make you lack confidence in yourself. But, in spite of that, there are enough gems in the theater and film work of Anthony Perkins that has to apoligize to no one and I for one salute him as one of my Hollywood heros.
Sensitive, layered portrait of a complicated man.......2006-05-31
This is one of the best Hollywood bios around. While numerous authors rehash the tired stories of Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and others (for the 10th or 11th time - and who cares) this book opens new, original territory by looking at the life and times of Tony Perkins. The author first published the book ten years ago and this is a great update - no one else has come along to do a better job either. Tony Perkins lived on the cusp of the social revolution, balancing between the uptight propriety of the 50s with the psycho/sexual upheaval of the 60s and 70s. Winecoff meticulously lays out this world, and Perkins difficult and often troubled, sometimes comical, walk through it. Tons of interviews and vivid descriptions of people and places makes Tony pop off the page in this "true Hollywood story" that is hard to out down. Winecoff's timing is impeccable - the book is a fast, fun read as well as an informative one. The reissue is more tightly woven (I read the first version when it came out ten years ago). The author has grown more sophisticated and observant with passing years, as all good writers should. The final scene, September 11th and all, is a fitting tribute to changing times and the end of an era.
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Comedienne Mo'Nique, the bold, classy, sitcom star, Queen of Comedy, and two-time NAACP Image Award winner is at it again. This time she proves once and for all that Skinny Women Are Evil. Mo'Nique shares her tales of frustration in a world designed for the skinny, and lets us in on the tricks and manipulation that finally led her to declare the truth about the real weight-challenged. From travel, exercise, and raising kids, to shopping, dining out, and sex, she tackles the everyday things that make life tough for Fabulous and Thick (F.A.T.) girls.
With Mo's handy Thin-O-Meter as a guide, you'll know immediately whether you're dealing with a skinny evil woman whose goal is to control and change the F.A.T., or a cool thin one who's big at heart. As Mo'Nique puts it, if after two bites of food she proclaims, "I'm stuffed," she's evil. If she asks if you're pregnant, and you're not, then chances are she's evil.
Whether you tip the scales at a puny 100 pounds, or weigh in at a voluptuous 225, Skinny Women Are Evil is filled with stories and observations only this comedy heavyweight can bring. So, sit back and get comfortable. After listening to Skinny Women Are Evil, you'll be singing the praises of FATTY girls, too!
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Perpetuates stereotypes.......2007-09-04
Yes, this book is funny as get out...but I can't recommend it.
First, why is it necessary to put down one type of person to make another person feel better? If the title had been "African American People are Evil" and it had been written by a Caucasian author, that would have been offensive. While it would be an exaggeration to say that this title is EQUALLY offensive as that one, this is an offensive title.
Second, being dangerously overweight isn't something to celebrate. Obesity is epidemic in this country, diabetes is rising among schoolchildren, and saying that it is not only okay, but worth celebrating is irresponsible.
I'm looking forward to the day when she can write a book titled: Every Woman is Beautiful.
I Loved this Book! .......2007-06-13
Monique you go girl! As for the person who asked why if Monique was so confident then why wasn't she married, well FYI she is married and has a son. Check the back cover of the book for this info. I can't help but wonder if this person even read the book. And who cares if Monique weighs 220 or 400? I think she's gorgeous and I'll bet she's laughing all the way to the bank! How many people out here posting can say the same? I don't think this book is about putting down skinny women so much as boosting the confidence of bigger women. I was an overweight child and I took many cruel comments for it and I can relate to what Monique has to say here. Keep up the good work Monique!
I LOVE Monique, but the book.brought only moderate enjoyment.............2007-05-11
I purchased this book and thought it would be more motivational for thick women and less hateful towards skinny women. Truth be told, I tend to harbor a little bitterness toward the skinny, but I must admit that there are plenty of skinny women who are not evil. I'm not exactly obese, but at about 30 lbs overweight, I am a thick girl. I can identify with some situations in the book, like the clothing stores not having my size and the occasional "are you pregnant?" But I can definitely see how a lot of people were offended by this book. At times, I even felt a little offended, like when she downs skinny people for eating habits and excercises....skinny girls aren't the only ones who excercise and try to eat healthy!!!! For example, I don't eat red meat, potatoes, rice, bread or pasta (unless it's absolutely necessary!). Sometimes when I order my food, people (even skinny ones) look at me like I'm crazy because I'm eating a double turkey burger with extra cheese, extra pickles with no bread and no fries. But besides all the skinny insults, the book wasn't that bad. It was interesting and gave the reader insight into monique's life. Her book was just like her stand up routine...full of profanity and skinny hating.....but I don't seroiusly think she meant to offend anyone who loves her, regardless of their size. But, be realistic, when you bought a book by Mo'nique called "skinny women are evil" what were you expecting it to say??
Author of Poetic Thoughts from the Heart of a Woman.......2007-04-06
I found Mo'nique and Sherri A. McGee's humor to be refreshing and laughable in this particular book. Being one of the "Quote" Skinny women of the world has its ups and downs as well. Thanks to Mon'nique and Sherri for helping us to find a little humor and allowing us to let our hair down in order that we may experience big or small laughter in ourselves and in others.
a funny read.......2006-12-19
I'm not a woman and I'm not 'big', but I do like a funny book and there's a certain richness and pride in Mo'Nique's book which I quite enjoyed. It's a harmless easy and fast read and is likely to put a smile on your face if you enjoy humorous books/bios ;-) Other humourous books/bios I recommend: John Leguizamo, Margaret Cho, Ellen Degeneres
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- The Non-Designer's Design Book
- The Official eBay Bible Second Edition: The Newly Revised and Updated Version of the Most Comprehensive eBay How-To Manual for Everyone from First-Time Users to eBay Experts (Official Ebay Bible)
- The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
- The Pro: A Golf Novel
- The Real Rule of Four
- The Salsa Guidebook
- The Serigraphs of Doug West
- The Surface Designer's Handbook: Dyeing, Printing, Painting, and Creating Resists on Fabric
- The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
- The Undomestic Goddess
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- Catalogue of the Tiepolo Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum
- Down in Bristol Bay: High Tides, Hangovers, and Harrowing Experiences on Alaska's Last Frontier
- Service Asia: How the Tigers Can Keep Their Stripes
