Robert vaughn biography a fortunate life
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A Fortunate Life
In his fifty-year career, Vaughn has made his mark in roles on stage, in film, and on television the world over.
A Fortunate Life reveals the details of his early years in Hollywood, when he found himself appearing as often in the gossip magazines as on screen, and follows his emergence as one of the world's biggest stars.
Vaughn warmly recalls his romances with stars like Natalie Wood, his adventures with friends like Steve McQueen and James Coburn, and insider stories about such legendary figures as Judy Garland, Charlton Heston, Oliver Reed, Elizabeth Taylor, and many more. Equally important, however, was his leading involvement in the antiwar movement of the 1960s, when he became the first actor to publicly speak out against the war in Vietnam.
With a wealth of moving, wonderfully entertaining and often jaw-dropping stories from the worlds of acting and politics, A Fortunate Life is a must-read for fans of Robert Vaughn and anyone who wants a glimpse behind the scenes of classic Hollywood.
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A Fortunate Life
In his entertaining, gossipy, and eminently readable memoir, Robert Vaughn admits at the outset that he 19ll drop names, and he does. Names of people he got drunk with, had sex with, and even acted with. His stories are well-told and frequently ribald. When he does wax abstractly philosophical in the middle of the book, he mercifully ends the offending chapter by assuring the reader that he won 19t do it again, and he doesn 19t.
Reading a memoir always makes me wonder whether and to what extent the author is being self-serving. What if only half of it were true? Would it still be a good story? If so, maybe it IS worthy of my guarded credulity. (One of my favorite memoirs is 1CExploding Star 1D by Fritz Molden; if you can get passed the slightly disorienting first chapter and suspend disbelief at the amazing adventures of its author 14all before he was 23 years old, it is a great, great read.) Vaughn, of course, leaves us guessing about some aspects of his character. He certainly protests his heterosexuality, but he has had some interesting male bonding experiences. My favorite is an evening spent in New York with Christopher Plummer. The two men hired a prostitute, took her to a hotel room and, aside from feeding her, ignor