| Reviewer: | E. A Solinas "la_solinas" (Hanover, MD USA) - See all my reviews |
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Posted on 09/09/2004 7:15:10 AM PDT by an amused spectator
And how does Ms. Kelley like this?, June 27, 2000
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I enjoyed this biography more than most ("Legend" nearly made me suicidal, though) since it gives the hard and lowdown about one of the biggest trashers of modern times. It chronicles the life and career of Kitty Kelley-and a lot of things you'd expect to see in her half-fictional biographies.
Aside from chronicling her life, it also analyzes the various lies and half-truths that Kelley put in her biographies. Among the myths that were blown apart were suggestions about Nancy Reagan being pregnant out of wedlock and Frank Sinatra dumping a girlfriend.
I honestly don't know if the statements about her sex life and college robberies (yes, you read right-a bustier among other things) were true. But if she could cold-bloodedly make up such degrading statements about people she doesn't even know, then I imagine she could probably steal and half-kill her lover.
The one thing that could have made this much better was if there had been more speculation on why Kelley chose to trash people the way she did. Based on her past life? On her career? Did she get some vicarious kicks out of it? Was she jealous?
If you have ever been enraged by a KK biography, this book is a must-read.
She wasn't interested in picncking in Ft. Marcy Park.
So9
'Cuz truth is stranger than fiction?
See Drudge:
"Sharon Bush Denies Kitty Kelley Account..."
I have never believed a word that KK writes. She is a tabloid trash author. I don't believe her no matter whom she is trashing.
Considering Kelley's past, and teh trashing she does of others, it's called 'projectionism' psychologically.
She accuses others of her own behavior.
I wish someone on FR would morph old skank Kitty Kelley's face onto that fat Michael Moore's body.
In the book, he insults KK for her looks-he describes her as "squat" and "pudgy" for her height and weight, which he gives as 5'3" and 110 lbs.
The average American woman stands 5' 3 3/4"-5' 4 1/2" (different studies give different results-under 5' 5", in any case) and weighs 135+ lbs.
So the overwhelming majority of the American women who read the book were told that they are ugly because of their height (when most are little if any taller than KK) and that they are squat and fat at a weight many can only dream of reaching (110 lbs).
Not too bright.
It sems that a lot of people are under the impression that American women average 5/8" or so (actually, the average American man stands 5' 9 1/2", and I doubt many people think wmen are only an inch or so shorter than men on average) and I can only assume that the author also shared that assumption, and thought her 5' 3" stature is much shorter than it actually is compared to most women in the USA.
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