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The model, actress, and former wife of Richard Pryor offers a candid memoir of her life in the fast lane, her self-destructive odyssey of sex and drugs, and her marriage to Pryor.
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出版社周刊评论
Hollywood actress Lee's acrimonious account of her 10-year relationship with Richard Pryor (including marriage and divorce) dominates this tell-all. Documenting Pryor's coke-snorting, mood swings, macho behavior and affairs, she evinces precious little insight into why she kept going back to a man who, by her account, beat her with fists and bottles. The rest of the book is an assemblage of mediocre gossip forced into a diary-like format. She has affairs with Warren Beatty and Art Garfunkel, hangs out with Roman Polanski, goes Vegas-ing with Adnan Khashoggisp ok , drops in at the Playboy Mansion and rubs elbows with Willie Nelson, Mick Jagger, Michelle Phillips, Ryan O'Neal et al. We are clearly supposed to feel sympathy for a woman who is making an emotional comeback and coping with childhood scars inflicted by a schizophrenic mother and a wife-battering father. But Lee is so breathlessly eager to shock, she simply bores instead. 35,000 first printing; $40,000 ad/promo; first serial to Penthouse. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
High-life memoir that smokes like a heat-seeking missile. Many readers won't get past the opening chapters of Lee's story (told in the first-person present), which propel the reader on greased skids and create a queasy momentum that allows little time for sympathy for Lee to grow. Those who stay the distance, though, will undoubtedly give Lee a big word-of-mouth boost. This book is unbelievable and its title adjective ``tarnished'' a total understatement. Lee's affairs with famed Don Juans are legion, her drugs top-grade and never-ending (despite a passing shot at A.A.), her crises the stuff of Krantz or Steel. Lee falls victim to her abused mother, a madwoman; steals her sister's lover at 16 to lose her virginity; takes the fast elevator up in Manhattan's glitterworld to bed with Warren Beatty and Roman Polanski; flies to London with Adnan Kashoggi (who is married to Saroya, with whom Beatty and Lee have threesomes, a form of triangular romping that Polanski is apparently addicted to as well); or wails with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, or Jimmy Connors--just for starters. Many of these are long-term lovers (who can afford jet-set apartments), but along the way Lee collects countless unfamed lovers, candy bars for a casual energy lift. At times she earns money as a fashion model or from bit parts in movies. Her Waterloo is a major liaison with Richard Pryor, who time and again beats her mercilessly, then marries her, only to ask for a divorce. (Lee describes his celebrated burning as a matter of Pryor dousing himself with 150- proof rum, then lighting a match to immolate himself.) She returns to him again and again, though, just this past summer leaving him bedridden with drugs. A struggling frankness amid a bonfire of dirty linen.
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Lee was raised in an upper-middle-class household near the Massachusetts Berkshires by a schizophrenic mother and confused father, and attended college in New York before becoming a part-time model with some acting ambitions. She spent the 1970s and 1980s learning guitar, writing songs, popping pills, and engaging in affairs with innumerable celebrities (for which she names names). Her autobiography is presented in the form of a diary, with over half the entries striving to make sense of an ultraviolent romance with and marriage to Richard Pryor. A curiously appealing character emerges--intelligent and occasionally discriminating. Nevertheless, her codependence in the Pryor relationship is bewildering, as is her conclusion that her life has been privileged.--Kim Holston, American Inst. for Property and Liability Underwriters, Malvern, Pa. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.