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Even before the French Open kicked off this week, NATHALIE TAUZIAT was swinging at her fellow players. In her newly released memoir, Les Dessous du Tennis Feminin (The Underside of Women's Tennis), Tauziat, 32, complains that the game's fans and the Women's Tennis Association are more impressed by good looks than raw talent. She is particularly dismayed at the popularity of pulchritudinous ANNA KOURNIKOVA, 18, one of the top money earners on the tour last year despite the fact that she has never won a singles tournament. Tauziat brands Kournikova a self-absorbed "Lolita" who plays...
Your article "The Friedan Mystique," reporting on Betty Friedan's new memoir Life So Far [BOOKS, May 1], said her "public life took a private toll." What was omitted in your article and her book was the private toll her life took on the people around her. No one can deny that nearly single-handedly Betty Friedan changed the world. That's history. But her rewriting of her personal relationships with her family cannot go unchallenged. She claims in her book to have been abused by me, a charge that your article reported, and I refuted. She was never abused...
Take NBC's Growing Up Brady (May 21, 9 p.m. E.T.). Based on the memoir by Barry ("Greg") Williams, it's a dishy, winking candy valentine that focuses on how much action Williams got from his screen sister, Maureen ("Marcia") McCormick. But at heart it's really about how darn much you love the Bradys and, by extension, TV. In one scene the Brady boys explore the Paramount lot, racing a cart through a gangster shootout and playing with phasers on the set of Star Trek. It's a big, slobbery kiss to TV past, and an ironic one coming...
...even sometimes hilarious, to have these lives of old stars (especially Taylor's) to carry with us into the new millennium. Gerald Clarke has done a fine, if sad, job on Judy Garland (Get Happy; Random House). Esther Williams has published an unexpectedly spirited memoir (The Million Dollar Mermaid; Simon & Schuster) in which she reveals, among other things, that she did not marry the ripple-jawed Jeff Chandler in the '50s because he liked to dress up in women's clothes ("You're too big to wear polka dots," she told...
...memoir, Katie.com (Dutton; 196 pages; $19.95), Tarbox explains in simple but revealing prose how she had come to see the man who claimed to be just 23 and called himself Mark (his real name turned out to be Frank Kufrovich) as her best friend and soul mate. "He cared about me," she writes. "He listened to my feelings... And he always supported me with encouragement and advice." In contrast, "home was a place where I always felt alone." Alienated from her workaholic mother, she had only one other friend and hated her grueling workouts on a nationally ranked swim team...