![]() Do we really need to know that Marlon Brando and J Edgar Hoover were lovers? Or that Richard Nixon sired a love child in 1960 who later briefly married Britney Spears? And this thing about Prince Harry - well, I can never look at a koala bear in quite the same way again. It's good that biography isn't hagiography, and if you go round censoring the lurid aspects of your subject you're now engaged in PR which is a whole other thing. ![]() ![]() LADY GAGA AND PRINCE HARRY - FINALLY THE TRUTH With access to her tape recordings - and her revelatory unfinished manuscript - Clarke is able to tell Judy's story as she herself might have told it. Towards the end of her life, Garland tried to tell her own story. Combining a novelist's skill and a movie director's eye, Clarke re-creates the golden age of Hollywood with cinematic Louis B Mayer, the patriarch of MGM sexy Lana Turner, Judy's friend and idol, who had a habit of trying to snatch away any man Judy expressed interest in clarinettist Artie Shaw, handsome Tyrone Power boy genius Orson Welles and brilliant director Vincente Minnelli, who fathered her first child, Liza. ![]() To tell her story, Gerald Clarke took ten years, travelled thousands of miles across two continents, conducted hundreds of interviews, and combed through mountains of documents, many of which were unavailable to other biographers. The woman of half a dozen comebacks and a hundred heartbreaks. Judy Garland, the girl with the pigtails in THE WIZARD OF OZ, was an entertainer of almost magical power. ![]()
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