After Allby Mary Tyler Moore
A candid autobiography from one of television's favorite straight women. I really liked it at first but then it digressed to so-so. Too much breadth; too little depth. I think I'm giving up on celebrity biographies. So much of it seemed to be looking back, not living in--told, not lived. I wanted more blow-by-blow memories of the Mary Tyler Moore Show. but it only had the tiniest handful.
I do think she's a totally cool person. If anyone deserves to write an autobiobraphy, it's she. I wonder if she dredged up the history from letters and memories rather than having been a diary-keeper? Maybe only diarists can do good autobiographies.
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