Tuesday, September 27, 2022

strollin' on the boulevards of Paris

 



        Ah! -- I found the video where the legal expert references Samantha in "Bewitched"!


on You Tube

title:  Legal expert reacts to Trump's inaccurate claim about declassifying

uploader / channel:  CNN

        It's at 7:03.

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        While on this subject (Elizabeth Montgomery, not Donald Trump) I checked Amazon, for biographies of the actress, just out of curiosity -- the customer reviews on one of the books were mostly unfavorable -- one reader addressed the author, writing, "Please don't write ANY more biographies -- or you'll be turned into a TOAD!"

        hahaha  

--------------------- Some of the criticisms of the book were based on its being "non-linear."  Not in chronological order.  


I started thinking about -- instead of biographies, where an author writes about the life of another person, autobiographies, where a person writes about their own life.

Four of my favorite autobiographies are

Chronicles, by Bob Dylan

Life, by Keith Richards

Jerry Hall:  My life in pictures (by Jerry Hall)

I, Tina - by Tina Turner and Kurt Loder.


Tina's and Keith Richards' books are "linear," or, told in chronological order.

Jerry Hall's book and Bob Dylan's are both somewhat chronological, but they depart from that framework to talk about certain subjects.


        I remember when Jerry Hall's book was coming out, I read an article where she originally had a deal with a big publisher, they gave her an advance $$, but then they wanted to guide her about what to write.  And of course they then leaned on her to give "dirt on Mick Jagger."  

So she gave the money back to them and wrote it her way, and found a different publisher.


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