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casper
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4/30/2008 | posted: 10/13/2008 at 11:43:32 AM ET
Okay, so I have been reading a lot of past interviews with Bernadette and really digging through the forums. My head is now swimming with information and I can't remember where I read what....
I thought (though it could have been a product of my imagination) that she referenced a novel that she enjoyed/ recommended about the theater world that was informative but also had a good story. Can someone tell me if I did in fact read this and if so who wrote it? It's kind of driving me crazy and I can't seem to re-find it. Also, if anyone can recollect any other books or authors she has talked about.
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| posted: 10/13/2008 at 1:48:08 PM ET
I think the book you're referring to is GHOST LIGHT by Frank Rich. It's a memoir, but I do recall her saying that it had a good storyline to it. Here's the description from the back of the book:
"There is a theater superstition that if the emptied house is ever left completely dark, a ghost will take up residence. To prevent this, a single 'ghost light' is left burning at center stage after the audience and the actors have gone home. This eloquent and moving boyhood memoir reveals how theater itself became a ghost light and a beacon of security for a child finding his way in a tumultuous world.
In what James Ellroy called 'a spellbinding coming-of-age tale,' NEW YORK TIMES writer Frank Rich recounts a boyhood spent in the small-townish Washington, D.C., of the 1950s and early 60's-- at a time when his parents' devastating divorce was tantamount to scandal. But it was also a time when Broadway was at its glamorous peak, beckoning a lonely child into its own family, no matter what it took for him to get there.
Written with humor and an appreciation for the joy that can be found in even the most difficult times, GHOST LIGHT is a beautiful recollection of a childhood transformed by the magic of theater."
GHOST LIGHT on Amazon.com
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| posted: 10/13/2008 at 1:48:58 PM ET
Ghost Light by Frank Rich. Excellent Book!
"Particular mention must be made of Bernadette Peters, who turns up briefly in a sort of sparkly Glinda the Good costume. She's the reluctant muse sent to help Alice with her writing. The muse is dressed like Oz, sounds like Queens and behaves like a bored student adviser." Alice Film Review, The New York Times, December 25, 1990
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| casper
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Thanks Jeny
That is the book i was thinking of. I'll have to pick it up after I finish Carol Burnett's One More Time. Ah, I love a good memoir.
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