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Title: Johnnie Ray & Miss Kilgallen by Bonnie Hill Hearn, Larry Hill, Bonnie H. Hill ISBN: 1-930754-19-1 Publisher: Durban House Publishing Company, Inc. Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A good read
Comment: A good read. Kilgallen was a looker though it is hard to tell from watching the old kinescopes of What's My Line? She was a great reporter who had many successes but is best remembered for her Voice of Broadway column in the old New York Journal American. Johnny Ray was a so-so singer and never could believe the rumors of his affair with DK. Anyhow, not a bad read for those who remember Kilgallen, Ray, and What's My Line?
Rating: 2
Summary: Fiction Stranger Than Truth
Comment: Mr. and Ms. Hill are vivid writers, but the logic they use when they create fiction leaves something to be desired.
Let's see if I understand the scene at the Washington, DC fundraiser on the night before John F. Kennedy took the oath of office. Would the next reviewer please tell me if I got it right ?
Dorothy Kilgallen became physically ill while she angrily accused her boyfriend Johnnie Ray of cheating on her. Dorothy was shouting and wailing into a coin telephone inside a Washington, DC building where Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford and their many friends were singing and laughing and drinking. Dorothy had the right to be angry because a few moments earlier Frank Sinatra had uncharacteristically treated her nicely.
Kilgallen and Sinatra had been enemies for several years at this point, and he regularly told his audiences in Las Vegas that she was as ugly as a chipmunk, but he decided to be nice to her at the inaugural celebration. Dorothy figured out that the reason he was being nice was that his ex - wife Ava Gardner had forced him to act that way after Johnnie Ray had issued the order while having sex with Ava. They had that roll in the hay on his New York City hospital bed where he was emaciated and deathly ill with cirrhosis of the liver. And that's why Frank Sinatra's good manners made Dorothy so angry that she got sick.
Say what ? Even John Charles Daly never used such feeble - minded logic on the many occasions that he answered Dorothy's intelligent questions. It is true that reading well - written books can enhance one's verbiage more successfully than basic cable TV can. But there is also such a thing as truth. You will get more of it by tuning in to the Game Show Network on which Dorothy Kilgallen does her job every morning at 4:30.
Rating: 5
Summary: Gripping and Sexy
Comment: This one really surprised me. I was intrigued by the pairing of Ray and Killgallen, but didn't figure on such a well-written treatment of the unlikely duo. Tough to put aside. Very cinematic.
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Title: Kilgallen by Lee Israel ISBN: 0440145651 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: July, 1980 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: At Random : The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf by Bennett Cerf, Christopher Cerf ISBN: 037575976X Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 05 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Arlene Francis: A Memoir by Arlene. Francis ISBN: 0671228080 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: March, 1978 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: What's my line? : The inside history of tv's most famous panel show by Gil Fates ISBN: 0139551468 Publisher: Prentice-Hall Pub. Date: 1978 |
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Title: Kitty: An Autobiography by Kitty Carlisle-Hart, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Kitty Carlisle ISBN: 0312033737 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: November, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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