Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star |
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Tab Hunter, Eddie Muller
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Pages: 416 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1565125487
Pub: Algonquin Books (division of Workman)
Pub date: 2006-10-16
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 146081
Reader Reviews:
Keeping Tabs! (7/7 people found this helpful)
Tab Hunter was the 1950s, Hollywood-style. He met nearly everyone and was gay at a time when such things had to be kept top secret. This should have been a fascinating story, but although I read it avidly to the end, I didn't feel he was telling all the story, and he certainly comes across as one of the unluckiest people I have ever read about...nothing worked out for him, not his career, his love-life, his friends, his mother, and many friends died young (Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Anthony Perkins, Nureyev, Rock Hudson, etc etc etc). If you thought Tab Hunter was great-looking and remember "Young Love" and all the magazine-covers, I'd say this was must-reading, but I wish he'd been a tad more frank. If you're going to write an autobiography, the least you can do is TELL ALL!!
SPLIT PERSONALITY (3/5 people found this helpful)
I was told by a friend that this book was not available thro' bookshops in the UK, so he bought one on Amazon and lent me his copy. It is well-written but it stops short of being very good!
Throughout the biography he tells us several times of how he looks after his mother, financial wise, although keeps saying its a 'promise', even though they row a lot! He seems to be almost broke one minute, but buys a horse the next, and then being robbed of everything, including antiques, then next buys a house to owing money to Warner Bros. One night stands, movie and ballet stars and forever 'on the road' to make ends meet.
He is not a Hollywood star anymore but many fans want to see the 'movie star' in all his glory. He likes older women and settles down with partners of guys decades younger.
Perhaps in the end he should have stuck to horses and became a pretty boy breeder or now write a screenplay of his life with Heath Ledger in the lead?
not great, but not awful either (6/6 people found this helpful)
Never exactly a major screen idol, Tab Hunter was nether-the-less a star in his prime- and a well known recording artist to boot. He was also really hot, which is probably why this book has been written- because it certainly does dwell a lot more on his personal life than his professional one.
Having said that, its quite a well done biog (as biogs go). Needs a lot more pictures, but its well written and very readable even if my copy has the smudgiest ink ive ever encountered in a book! Dont wear white to read it!
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