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基本信息
·出版社：Saint Martin's Press Inc.
·页码：376 页码
·出版日：2004年
·ISBN：0312285655
·条码：9780312285654
·版次：2004-02-01
·装帧：精装
·开本：20开 20开
内容简介
Book Description
Moviegoers worldwide have spent more than USD1.5 billion to see her movies, but her real life has been seen only in dubious tabloid glimpses until now. James Spada has gone back to Julia's parent's beginnings in Georgia to unearth fascinating facts about her dysfunctional family background, her troubled childhood, and her early dating life. He offers fresh details about all her famous movies and uncovers an intensely dedicated but deeply insecure artist. For the past six years she has delighted audiences everywhere in a series of smash hits and achieved the distinction of earning the highest per-film paycheque of any actress in history. As a person, she's grown from a skittish girl moving through volatile relationships with handsome co-stars to become an assured woman making her own bold - and often controversial - decisions about how to live her life. This unputdownable book is a lively and vivacious as the star it explores.
FromPublishers Weekly
According to Spada, star biography specialist (Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Jacqueline Kennedy), Julia Roberts inspires every response, from the accusation by high school classmates that she "liked to steal other girls' boyfriends" to Woody Allen's praise: "She's bright, beautiful, and a pleasure to work with." This duality makes her an intriguing but unsympathetic character here. So much evidence is presented about Roberts pro and con that the book becomes a biographical mystery, inviting readers to draw their own conclusions. A self-proclaimed ugly duckling who "never really fit" in early childhood, Roberts was strongly inspired by actor brother Eric. The book moves briskly from Roberts's breakthrough role in Mystic Pizza to superstardom with Pretty Woman, a part she researched by interviewing prostitutes. Roberts "does her emotional homework," declares director Joel Schumacher during their collaboration on Flatliners, a film that co-starred her with one-time fiance Kiefer Sutherland. Other lovers who emerge with colorful clarity include Liam Neeson, Dylan McDermott, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jason Patric and country singer ex-husband Lyle Lovett. Although Spada cuttingly characterizes Roberts and Lovett as "beauty and the beast," he delineates their relationship less sharply than the other liaisons (although Matthew Perry of Friends is a vividly etched presence). Spada recounts the Roberts-Nick Nolte feud during I Love Trouble and highlights the ambivalence so many feel about her by quoting Steven Spielberg, who praised her while directing Hook and criticized her on 60 Minutes. Readers won't be as enchanted with this box-office sweetheart as they were before beginning the story, but they're likely to become caught up in Spada's incisive portrait of her personal and professional tribulations.
Book Dimension
length: (cm)23.9 width:(cm)16.2
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