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Noted animal lover and even more noted man lover BRIGITTE BARDOT, 62, has written a breathless memoir. It might almost be a best seller if one copy were bought by each ex-amour named in it. Many of them, however, won't much like what they read. It's not just her dissatisfaction with men. Initiales B.B. has plenty of Bardot's far-right, anti-immigration politics too. But as she is being sued by a leading French antiracism organization for "provoking racial hatred" in recent interviews, maybe she should take the advice of one newspaper headline: B.B., SHUT...
Wattleton's personal story, recounted in this new memoir, Life on the Line (Ballantine; 489 pages; $25), provides her with a tidy opportunity to give readers a survey course in the history of birth control and the abortion movement. Trained as a nurse-midwife during the 1960s in New York City's Harlem and in Dayton, Ohio, she spent the early years of her career in the trenches, caring for women and girls forced to deal with the consequences of unintended pregnancies and back-alley abortions. As director of the Dayton Planned Parenthood affiliate, and then as president...
...profoundly engaging years living together in London and Connecticut. Yet according to Bloom, nothing prepared her for the mental collapse she says Roth suffered in the early 1990s and for the subsequent psychological torture he inflicted on her--a shattering breakdown that is the climax of Bloom's new memoir, Leaving a Doll's House (Little, Brown; 272 pages...
...included sending her bills for $150 an hour for the hundreds of hours he spent going over scripts with her and for $62 billion for contesting their prenuptial agreement--have been setting New York City literary circles abuzz, but Bloom waits until she is more than halfway through this memoir to begin dishing the dirt. For, Roth aside, Bloom, 65, has her own moderately interesting story to tell. She starred in Charlie Chaplin's Limelight, played virtually every major classical role on the stage and has acted opposite--and been romantically involved with--some of the great leading...
...girl, 18, was promptly kicked out. Then in 1993, Bloom writes, Roth spiraled into a severe, inexplicable depression. He was institutionalized and became deeply paranoid, accusing his wife of trying to poison him, dredging up misdeeds, real and imagined, and, in the end, divorcing her. With this sad memoir Bloom gets the last word--for now. But it is hard not to wonder what will happen when Roth turns his novelist's eye to this same material. Claire Bloom has good reason to shudder at the prospect...