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"It's an autobiography. The book is about the author's adventures in the movie industry as an actor and producer. The author also talks about the different players, whereby talking bad about the ones that he doesn't like, and good about the ones he likes. The book has some important revelations on how the movie industry works."
Soumya Haldar, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Romance
Yes
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Family, hate
Yes
Struggle with:
- Brother
- Wife
The difficult family member
- disapproves of life choices
- disapproves of business decisions
Ethnic/regional/gender
Yes
Story of entertainer?
- Director/Producer
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- actor/actress/producer
Age:
- 60's-90's
Biography of famous person?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 8 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Misc setting
- Fancy Mansion
Style
Person
- rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Writer's slant towards subject:
- favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
Pictures/Illustrations?
- A lot 11-15 B&W
How much dialogue in bio?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 26-50% of book
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