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...rich, and after moving on to a one-season series, The Persuaders with Tony Curtis, he was more so. (Curtis comes across as a crusty and eccentric character whose obsession with his gloves was so great that he left them on when he washed his hands. In his own memoir, also out this month, Curtis describes himself and Moore as "the best of friends." Both actors recount an incident in which Curtis used the c-word on guest-star Joan Collins; interestingly, their stories square completely. Maybe they compared notes...
...Most celebrities can't write, and neither can the people they pay to write for them. But there's something compelling about a good celebrity memoir just because it's so achingly predictable: the humble beginnings of the plucky, plain little waif from Nowheresville, the chance discovery, the lucky break, the pieces of a fabulously successful and lucrative career magically magnetizing together. (For a lengthier and smarter consideration of this topic see the late David Foster Wallace's "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," an extended review of Austin's Beyond Center Court: My Story collected in Wallace's Consider...
When I look back at these notes, that was what came back to me-the fun that we'd had doing it. Before all the backbiting, before all the falling out, before all the commercial repercussions of what we'd done. It was just a memoir of a really good time. And I sent Alan a copy of the book a couple of weeks ago. Haven't heard back from him. But I actually signed it "To Alan, with fond memories, best wishes, Dave." 'Cause that's how I feel about...
Bush, George W. •lack of demand for memoir...
...work, arriving first at the office. Eventually - and much more slowly than her male counterparts - she advanced and was promoted to vice president. She earned more money than her husband, and her job became a "source of delicacy and bitterness" for the couple, Obama wrote in his memoir, Dreams from My Father...