Reviewed from an ARC made available by the publisher via NetGalley. There is far more in the book to appreciate than there is to nitpick. We, well most of us who read for the bigger picture, felt we got to know both of these people very well and thus lost a friend when Joi passed.I would recommend this book to both fans of Joi Lansing as well as those who simply enjoy biographical works. In many ways, this book serves to highlight the "dangers of using silicone injections so that no one else has to suffer injury or even death." So in addition to telling the inner beauty of a star it is intended to prevent others from suffering either death or the loss of a loved one. But anyway.Joi's story, or more specifically her last few years, is told from the perspective of her friend and lover. As for someone who is not a music expert confusing reggae for calypso, I find that far less of something to mount a soapbox over, but then I am more interested in the human aspect of this book, not showing everyone what I can find that might technically be an (unimportant) error.
Not because they are lying but because that is the nature of memory and memory recall. I think everyone has recalled something, in fact many somethings, inaccurately from their own past. I also know from experience that memoirs are held to a considerably lower level of fact-checking, no need to look further than O'Reilly's memoirs (in this case I use the term loosely, fiction might be a better term). I am a little more forgiving about minor facts in a biography, especially when it is more of a hybrid of a biography and a memoir/autobiography, than some other reviewer since the events weren't researched but rather recalled from memory. “Stunning black and white photos of Lansing by Maurice Seymour, the era’s Superstar Photographer, make this book a collectors dream.” -Kate Porter-Avery Read more Always just on the verge of “making it big,” Joi packed them in with standing room only in Vegas, but when the curtain came down and the audience was gone, who was she? Sadly, the one relationship where she was loved for the sweet, gentle woman she really was, the friendship that might have given her the strength to finally cross the finish line for that one moment of glory for which she had run since she began in show business as a little girl of 14, was ended at her death from breast Cancer in the arms of her dear friend, “Rachel.” "Author Alexis Hunter (“friend/baby sister”) was the only person who really knew Joi and knew how she struggled with a suicide-obsessed self-image and deadly drug problem after being a child star at MGM where “uppers” were a common way to keep the kids working 20 hour days. Though her funeral was attended by luminaries of the day (Frank Sinatra sent a huge floral display), her light went out relatively unceremoniously.
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After three decades of successful TV and movie appearances and Vegas singing stardom, Ms. "Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For colorfully chronicles personal and intimate details of the last four years of the talented ‘50’s “blonde bombshell” star’s fascinating life.
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