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Title: Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood by SUZANNE FINSTAD ISBN: 0-609-80957-1 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.96 (73 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: natural beauty
Comment: I am fan of Natalie Wood since I saw, as a child, movie "Splendor in the grass". She was beautifull and so much different then the other "star-system" actresses. A long time I could not find some interesting article regarding her life and tragic death so I was surelly suprised when I read "Natasha". I have read it in one breath. I have read it earlier that she was famous in all the hollywood parties and that she was rebel. Thats why I was suprised when I`ve read that she was connected to her family and children. Maybe she was captivated by her mentally abused childhood as the author presented, and she was searhing for true love. I was very suprised when I heard the editors preview regarding the bisexual activity of Robert Wagner. The author was just indirectly show us the possible, "shocking" divorce reason of their first marriage. I was more suprise that she returned to him after that "compromised position" she saw.
The book is very interesting but only thing it is not such clear to me is RJ. According to the author, they were really in love and he was quait and nice man. But Finstad is not paid so much attention to him, as he was not interested her. What is still question for me is that relationship with C. Walken on that day when she drowned. Is in Hollywood really ordinary thing to be bisexual?
Rating: 4
Summary: Very well done
Comment: I thought this biography of Natalie Wood was very well researched and quite absorbing. I see from other reviews that people criticized Finstad for her over-dramatic prose and repetition, but I found myself so interested in the story that I didn't notice these things while reading. Well, Natalie lead a dramatic life, so maybe some flowery prose isn't entirely out of place.
I read on a Natalie Wood website that her oldest daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner, has dismissed the book as "trash," saying the information was just "gathered from a lot of gossip columns," although in the same breath she admits she hasn't actually read the book. Actually, Finstad interviewed a large number of people who were close to Natalie both personally and professionally, from the time she was a small child, and the text is very well documented with her source notes. Such complete documentation is rarely found in Hollywood biographies these days, and is very impressive, in my opinion.
All in all, I agree with Natalie's sister Lana that this book is "comprehensive, moving, shocking and riveting," and recommend it to both long time and new Natalie Wood fans.
Rating: 1
Summary: A waste of time
Comment: This book is trash. It exploits and sensationalizes the life of one of Hollywood's most charming and fascinating people. There's a reason the Wagners didn't participate in the production of this biography. I'm certain Finstad's disregard for the truth is it. Of course Lana Wood likes this bio. She was always as out to get her sister as the tabloid press!
If you have any respect or admiration for Natalie Wood, don't buy this nonsense. Rent her movies instead.
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Title: Natalie Wood : A Life by GAVIN LAMBERT ISBN: 0375410740 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister by Lana Wood ISBN: 0399129030 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: November, 1986 List Price(USD): $18.25 |
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Title: Natalie and R.J. by Warren G. Harris ISBN: 0385236913 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 01 June, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title:This Property Is Condemned ASIN: B0000AUHQA Publisher: Paramount Home Video Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.39 |
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Title:Splendor in the Grass ASIN: B00002ND7B Publisher: Warner Studios Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $16.38 |
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