The Way I Was
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نقد و بررسی
November 2, 1992
Writing with freelancer Gardner, composer Hamlisch, now 45, sums up his life to date. Peppering his narrative with anecdotes about friends and colleagues such as Liza Minnelli, Groucho Marx, Ann-Margret and Michael Bennett, he describes his childhood with his Jewish Viennese immigrant parents who were determined to make him a classical musician, his 14 years studying at New York City's Juilliard School of Music and his determination to go into show business rather than onto the concert stage. He recalls his early jobs as a rehearsal pianist, his instant celebrity with three Oscar awards for The Way We Were , his highly successful scores for the movie The Sting and the Broadway show A Chorus Line , his marriage and his recent foray into symphonic music. Hamlisch's confession that he tends toward pessimism and anxiety and his assessments of his failures ( Smile and Jean , a musical about the life of Jean Seberg) as well as his account of three years of relative inactivity--during which Hamlisch realized that his successes had been at the expense of a satisfying personal life--add a bit of weight to this slight and sometimes amusing autobiography. Photos not seen by PW.
November 15, 1992
For a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker, Hamlisch has a narrative style that's long on homespun humor and not without a little pathos. As a talented youngster from a close-knit Jewish family, he sat for stressful yearly scholarship exams at the Juilliard School, which generally meant Maalox tablets and stomachaches. And when he wrote his first film score at 23 years of age, bleeding ulcers followed shortly thereafter. Because of some astounding successes, the composer of "Chorus Line" and "The Way We Were" may well command readers' attention with this chatty and fast-paced account of life in the show biz fast lane--his early triumph, later flops, and an overdue date with true love and marriage in 1989. ((Reviewed Nov. 15, 1992))(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 1992, American Library Association.)
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