Life is too Short

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He was born in September 1920 in Brooklyn, New York, and seventy-odd years later he's still on top of the world. The intervening years, however, have been anything buteasy. They've been fun, painful, sexy, tragic, and thrilling. But easy? That's not the Rooney way.
From his ürst stage appearance at the age ofseventeen months—yes, seventeen months— through his days as the eternal youth Andy Hardy, through the triumphs of The Black Stallion, Sugár Babies, and the award-winning role of Bili in the television movie of the same name, Mickey Rooney has defirted the word "star" A singer, dancer, comedian, and brilliant dramatic actor, Mickey Rooney; it has been said, is, pound for pound, the most talented performer in the history of Hollywood. He can make you laugh just as easily as he can make you cry. But there is a lot more to Rooney than just his talent or a highly successful career. In Life Is Too Short, Rooney shows that under-neath it áll has been a man who has gone through it... Tovább

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He was born in September 1920 in Brooklyn, New York, and seventy-odd years later he's still on top of the world. The intervening years, however, have been anything buteasy. They've been fun, painful, sexy, tragic, and thrilling. But easy? That's not the Rooney way.
From his ürst stage appearance at the age ofseventeen months—yes, seventeen months— through his days as the eternal youth Andy Hardy, through the triumphs of The Black Stallion, Sugár Babies, and the award-winning role of Bili in the television movie of the same name, Mickey Rooney has defirted the word "star" A singer, dancer, comedian, and brilliant dramatic actor, Mickey Rooney; it has been said, is, pound for pound, the most talented performer in the history of Hollywood. He can make you laugh just as easily as he can make you cry. But there is a lot more to Rooney than just his talent or a highly successful career. In Life Is Too Short, Rooney shows that under-neath it áll has been a man who has gone through it all—broken romances, addiction to pilis, the squandering of a veritable fortune. He has had relationships with somé of the most beautiful women of our time—Ava Gardner and Lana Turner, among many others—and friendships with a glittering array of celebrities—Clark Gable, Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Taylor, Charlie Chaplin, Fred As-taire, Jimmy Cagney, Jackie Gleason (whose thirty-eighth-birthday present to Rooney was a night with two of the most beautiful women who ever lived). Of course, there was alsó his fabled friendship with Judy Garland, and in these pages is a warm, insightful, and poi-gnant look at that great singer and actress.
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Life Is Too Short is a show-business autobi-ography unlike any other. It is a chronicle of the business itself—the greed, the glitter, the hard work, revealing the secrets behind the successes of such fdms as Boys Town and The Humán Comedy, teliing how it felt to be the most famous child star in the world, showing what it was like to tackle such tough moguls as Louis B. Mayer head-on. It is alsó a window into an extraordinary life, a life fiiled with startiing experiences, tremendous and hedonism, along with a lot of loving and car-ing. There are failed marriages, visits to Hollywood brothels, extravagant spending, the pre-mature deaths of close friends and lovers. Perhaps, above all, it is the ultimate portrait of a survivor, for Mickey Rooney is just thai For all its ups and downs, for all its sadness and celebration, Mickey Rooney 's autobiography is reason to believe that life, indeed, is too short Way too short Vissza