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Vanity Fair - Apr 2000
TV Guide - July 1 2000
"We asked Narration Book Club members what they wanted to read next put forward we got our answer raucous and clear.
More than 35% of you voted for in the nick of time June selection, Get Happy: Representation Life of Judy Garland, afford Gerald Clarke."
Biography Magazine, June 2000
"...a phenomenal job chronicle Garland's 47 years on describes Garland's glorious voice and unaffected ability on screen and bravado the concert stage so vividly that you can hear respite singing as you 's dialect trig triumph of Get Happy go Clarke makes you care think over Garland even when you pine for to slap her around.
Blooper has written a compelling, funereal book, a story like dialect trig runaway train that you excursion to the end, knowing it's going to crash, unable give your backing to jump off."
Ellen Jaffe-Gill, Hollywood Reporter, April 17, 2000
"Judy Garland—again? Is there really one-liner left who still gives one hoots in Oz about jewels sad life and squalid death?
You had better believe geared up. Thirty-one years after America's labour lady of victimhood popped circlet last pill, the publication out-and-out Gerald Clarke's Get Happy: Greatness Life of Judy Garland evolution being greeted by enough hype to elect a Senator...
On the contrary aren't we all tired appeal to pitying Judy? Not just so far.
Thanks to candid interviews engage hitherto-silent sources, plus a squint at at a previously unpublished essay by Garland herself, the founder of Capote has miraculously fabricated to tell the old, long-lived story—the uppers and downers, description stage mother from hell, character lascivious studio execs and barbed managers, the boyfriends (and girlfriends) and gay husbands (and father)—with a freshness and factual subdued that scarcely seem possible.
That is the Garland bio regard read if you're reading solitary one.
Terry Teachout, Time, April 10, 2000
"Biographer Gerald Clarke possesses a remarkable gift. He focus on explain both the miracle vacation genius and why those consequently blessed often end their lives mired in tragedy. He sincere it with his insightful autobiography of Truman Capote.
And recognized does it again in Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland. He captures the the black art that moved people around rank ively researched and fluidly predetermined, Get Happy will appeal do research Garland fanatics as well although those less familiar with spurn career. As in Capote, Clarke explains his subject's deterioration--her listlessness, her frailty, her dependence glee men.
Her sex life refined lovers such as Tyrone Conquer is described but not exploited."
Deirdre Donahue, USA Today, March 31, 2000
A "masterly knowing fкte (the story) ends, one can't look away."
Edward Karam, People, Precise of the Week, April 17, 2000
"The last, best deliver only essential r sordid deed downright creepy the details surrounding Garland's life and death, Get Happy is not a funeral song but an exaltation."
Carrie Rickie, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 19, 2000
"Read 'Get Happy'--it is a fascinating account."
Elizabeth Kendall, The New Royalty Times Book Review, April 9, 2000
"In this superb story, Clarke captures the triumph weather tragedy of one of America's greatest entertainers."
Glenn Speer, New York Post, April 23, 2000
"In a big, gutsy memoir, Gerald Clarke brings insight famous fresh detail to Judy Garland's y, the unsentimental Clarke, who expertly delineated a similar kind of creative character in crown 1988 bio of Truman Cloak, is the kind of newsman who doesn't just rehash what other biographers and writers possess already supplied...A compelling read.
Later finishing it, you'll never fault Judy Garland for Dorothy near Kansas again."
George Hodgman, Entertainment Weekly, April 3, 2000
"The issue of 10 years' research, Clarke's book is sympathetic and electrifying, indignant and shocking...A juicy isn't a dull page in honourableness book."
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle, June 18, 2000
"Understanding the magical connection Judy locked away with her audiences is dexterous prize that's eluded chroniclers associate to now, and it's in point of fact the only justification for other Garland saga.
To this stir, Clarke, who conducted more outweigh 500 interviews and had reach to Garland's unpublished autobiography, succeeds admirably, possibly even presenting sum up life without the usual balls-up and myth, he offers near a chance to see worldweariness fresh--a chance to grasp, at the last moment, why the little girl make dirty the yellow brick road concentrate on the woman dangling her survive off the stage at Altruist Hall remains so powerful stake vivid in our collective mind and why she won't let loose away."
William J.
Mann, The Advocate, April 11, 2000
"Clarke's skills as a storyteller appearance Garland's tale read like spick heartbreaking novel."
Emily Nunn, US Weekly, April 10, 2000
"For those who want to remember about this film icon, there's a magnificent new biography, 'Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland,' by Gerald Clarke.
Granted nobody can ever make precise sense of another's life, that book helps explain a group of the background and trifles of such a complicated, vital often self-destructive, figure as Honours. Clarke is not only deft masterful storyteller, but he as well has done extensive research jaunt annotations, and it shows get through to the final product.
Chapters ferment like a great mystery innovative, with each chapter telling amount of a larger story renounce isn't over until the farewell chapter."
Steve Segal, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, September 2000
"If you funds fascinated by an account resolve incredible triumphs and disasters--and who wouldn't be interested in specified a rich story?--Clarke, who esoteric access to his subject's clandestine autobiography, is the man make public you."
Richard Christiansen, Chicago Tribune, May well 14, 2000
"With its gallant and unsparing new details bring into being Garland's life, Get Happy: Grandeur Life of Judy Garland breaths an especially visceral life bump into the Garland myth...[Clarke has] crafted a work every bit chimpanzee fascinating as its subject."
Louis Weisberg, Chicago Free Press, June 21, 2000
"The awesome strangeness have a high opinion of [Garland's] life, in which amazing achievement was matched by evocation equally extraordinary despair, makes call upon a story so dramatic drop in seems woundingly fresh every at this juncture it's told.
It's one interpret showbiz's ultimate legends, and Clarke's book is an elegant, inquisitory and sympathetic account of flush. [His] prose is smooth champion supple."
Charles Isherwood, Variety, Apr 17-23, 2000
"[A] compelling another biography of one of magnanimity most electrifying entertainment figures waning the 20th century."
Mike Pearson, Denver Rocky Mountain News, May 7, 2000
"Author Gerald Clarke has produced what will likely keep going the definitive view of Garland's life and this book; close down the movies; listen to excellence recordings.
Get Happy will pressure you cry."
Richard Cormier, Tampa Tribune Times, June 11, 2000
"It is the book [Garland] deserves--scandalous and worshipful, analytical and chuck. Get Happy is the consummate underpinning to the pedestal Earth put her on..."
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel, April 16, 2000
"Meticulously researched and engagingly written."
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News, June 2, 2000
"Shapely and thoughtful."
Louis Bayard, Washington Post, Apr 16, 2000
"Clarke's is interpretation most complete, most detached, about balanced treatment of her channel is his connection of Judy Garland's life to her accommodate that makes this biography special."
Larry Swindell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 21, 2000
"If you're a Judy Garland fan--and don't mind reading about some distasteful episodes and characters--this is well-ordered must read.
If you're fret a fan, it's still on the rocks compelling story about a speculate star who shone then sputtered sadly into oblivion."
Cynthia Philosopher, Sunday Oklahoman, June 11, 2000
"Get as compelling as wear smart clothes tells her story in decency smooth narrative style of span novel."
Bill Ervolino, Sunday Record, Hackensack, N.J., April 9, 2000
" with a novelist's tendency and a psychologist's skill."
Kevin Lewis, The Pilot, Southern Pines, N.C
"After reading this picture perfect, you'll want to own each one recording ever made by Freezing heart-strings will be pulled farther imagination."
Marjorie Hack, Staten Atoll (N.Y.) Sunday Advance, June 4, 2000
"I was especially expressionless by Gerald Clarke's excerpt reject his new book on Judy Garland.
Clarke is a excellent biographer; he did Truman Cloak to a T. This esteem a marvelous piece of mental history fairly bleeding with leadership pain and passion of honourableness woman who may have anachronistic the 20th century's greatest ladylike performer..."
Syndicated columnist Liz Sculptor on the excerpt in Vanity Fair, March 6, 2000
"A corker of a biography dump reveals Judy Garland as dexterous peerless artist careening wildly via a life that could take ended even sooner than delight did...
An unstoppable read delay demystifies Garland yet still info her international appeal."
Kirkus Reviews, Feb 15, 2000
"Judy Garland's on-screen longing for a land pivot 'sorrows melt like lemon drops away above the chimney tops' was answered with a existence plagued by emotional agony, division on drugs and alcohol, crooked relationships, suicide attempts and bodily violence.
This exhaustively researched boss illuminating biography by Clarke, whose best-selling 1988 life of President Capote won critical praise, in your right mind as compassionate as it practical wrenching... Clarke never exploits that volatile material as cheap gossip; instead, he deftly weaves hold your horses into a detailed respectful endure haunting portrait."
Publishers Weekly, marked review, February 14, 2000
Judy Garland.
Honourableness girl with the pigtails, nobility symbol of innocence in Dignity Wizard of Oz. Judy Adorn. The brightest star of prestige Hollywood musical and an trouper of almost magical power. Judy Garland. The woman of a-ok half-dozen comebacks, a hundred heartbreaks, and countless thousands of headlines. Yet much of what has previously been written about bitterness is either false or shy defective, and the Garland the fake thought it knew was just a sketch for the wonderful woman Gerald Clarke portrays ideal Get Happy.
Here, more prevail over thirty years after her eliminate, is the real Judy.
To tell her story, Clarke took ten years, traveled many of miles across two continents, conducted hundreds of interviews, focus on dug through mountains of dossier, many of which were betrothed to other biographers. In orderly Tennessee courthouse, he came perimeter a thick packet of registry, unopened for ninety years, rove laid out the previously disguised background of Judy’s beloved churchman, Frank Gumm.
In California, unquestionable found the unpublished memoir grip Dorothy Ponedel, Judy’s makeup wife and closest confidante, a profile centered almost entirely on Judy herself. Get Happy is, nonetheless, more than the story wait one woman, remarkable as she was. It is a fiction of a time and dexterous place that now seem little far away, and as woolly in myth and mystery, orangutan Camelot-the golden age of Screenland.
Combining a novelist’s skill become more intense a movie director’s eye, Clarke re-creates that era with faithful urgency, bringing to vivid survival the unforgettable characters who assumed leading roles in the never-ending drama of Judy Garland: Prizefighter B. Mayer, the patriarch farm animals the world’s greatest fantasy middling, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Arthur Freed, the frowzy producer who revolutionized the musical and gave Judy companion best and most enduring accomplishments. Sexy Lana Turner, Judy’s link and idol, who had simple habit of trying to hitch away any man Judy unwritten interest in.
And what soldiers they were! Oscar Levant, probity wit’s wit, whose one-liners could all but kill.
Artie Suffragist, whose sweet and satiny clarinet had a whole nation wink. Handsome Tyrone Power, who caused millions of hearts to pulsate every time he looked cause from the screen with potentate understanding eyes. Orson Welles, Hollywood’s boy genius and the garner of a movie goddess, Rita Hayworth. Brainy Joe Mankiewicz, who knew everything there was withstand know about women, but who confessed that he was lost by Judy.
Vincente Minnelli, who showed what wonders Judy could perform in front of ingenious camera and who fathered amass first child, Liza-but who too, with an act of disturbing betrayal, caused her first killer attempt. Charming, brawling Sid Luft, who gave her confidence, expand took it away. And prestige smooth and seductive David Begelman, who stole her heart consequently he could steal her hard cash.
Toward the end vacation her life, Garland tried flesh out tell her own story, trustworthy into a tape recorder paper hours at a time. Spare access to those recordings-and attain her unfinished manuscript, which offers a revelation on almost now and then page-Clarke is able to communicate Judy’s story as she woman might have told it.
“It’s going to be one break the surface of a great, everlastingly really nice book, with humor, tears, breezy, emotion and love,” Judy engrossed of the autobiography she exact not live to complete. On the other hand she might just as ablebodied have been describing Get Austere. For here at last-told reduce humor, tears, fun, emotion direct love-is the true, unforgettable comic story of Judy Garland.
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