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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 792.028092 EAN: 9780060763268 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0060763264 Label: Amistad Manufacturer: Amistad Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: October 01, 2008 Publisher: Amistad Release Date: September 30, 2008 Studio: Amistad Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: It's conventional wisdom that Hollywood has no use for a woman over forty. So it's a good thing that Diahann Carroll—whose winning, sometimes controversial career breached racial barriers—is anything but conventional. Shonda Rhimes, the creator and executive producer of the hit program Grey's Anatomy, developed a role just for her, and a recent show that's touring the United States, The Life and Times of Diahann Carroll, was enthusiastically embraced by the New York Times. And all this since Carroll turned seventy! Here she shares her life story with an admirable candidness of someone who has seen and done it all. With wisdom that only aging gracefully can bestow, she talks frankly about her four marriages as well as the other significant relationships in her life, including her courtship with Sidney Poitier; racial politics in Hollywood and on Broadway; and the personal cost, particularly to her family, of being a pioneer. Whether she's recalling an audition for Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, reflecting on her marriage to Vic Damone, or talking about her experience with breast cancer, Carroll's storied history, blunt views, and notorious wit will be sure to entertain and inform. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great Book!!!!I adore Diahann Carroll, have since back in the "Julia" days. This story seemed real and as honest as one can be. If you like to read about the celebrities and how they are like us, get this!!!! Rating: - Very Candid..."The Legs Are The Last To Go - Aging, Acting, Marrying & Other Things I Learned The Hard Way" by Diahann Carroll (Amistad/Harper Collins, 271 pages) is a good read and the title holds true to the material in the book. I enjoy autobiographical type books, especially when the author truly shares a real inside peek into his or her life. Diahann Carroll shared more than what I feel the average fan would have expected in a very candid way and for that I give her five stars. The book is a close intimate ... Read More Rating:  - Strutting like a DivaWhile I did find this a very entertaining read and while I enjoyed getting the background on Richard Rogers, Andrew Lloyd Webber and the like, I can see how some readers see these very interesting stories as only a backdrop to many self congratulatory statements. At times the descriptions contained so much self flattery that they seemed a little comical (I do not think that was the intention). That being said I was shocked at the racial discrimination that Miss Carroll had to endure right up to and including ... Read More Rating: - Gracious Diva. . . .Diahann Carroll's "The Legs Are the Last To Go" is a thoughtful, provocative review of the star's life, times and loves. Looking back with a wizened, wistful eye, she muses on family, stardom, marriage, show business and race. Carroll may have a diva's outsized ego (she is still unabashedly strutting her stuff--even at age 73!), but she is also remarkably candid, funny and gracious. Boasting an astonishingly long and successful career that stretches all the way back to the mid-fifties, Carroll was extraordinarily ... Read More Rating: - Any comprehensive film library needs thisHollywood has no use for a woman over forty - but actress Diahann Carroll isn't conventional and her career defied the norm. Any who have followed her films will find her autobiography The Legs Are the Last to Go is a gripping story of her career, her professional and personal relationships, the lessons she's learned from Hollywood and life, and racial politics in Hollywood. Any comprehensive film library needs this. 
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