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03-25-2009, 11:53 PM
Amazon.com officially releases Mary Tyler Moore's new book on March 31, 2009, but I already found a couple of copies today at a local bookstore on March 25. The book was in the Health section of the store, on the shelf with other books about diabetes. I'm not sure how much of the book is memoir and how much is about the struggle with juvenile diabetes, which is why I'm waiting for the book to show up at the public library, but I did go back to the index to look up quickly what MTM had to say in her new book about DVD and TDVDS.
In the middle of the book there is a photograph of the four stars of TDVDS singing "I Am a Fine Musician", as well as Annie Leibowitz's photograph of DVD and MTM dressed up as clowns that originally appeared in the Vanity Fair magazine.
As MTM describes the importance of the "Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman" special to catapaulting her career with CBS, she uses the words "genius" and "generosity" to describe Dick.
And she describes the "Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited" reunion special as being "wonderful." What I did not know is that MTM has had to stop her dancing due to her declining health, and that MTM had a lot of difficulty finding the right choreography and movements that she could do to complete her opening ballet scene as the older Laura Petrie.
In other section of the book, MTM talks about making a pratfall like Dick when she made her entrance on the Oprah Winfrey show, apparently due to her lack of peripheral vision. Apparently they edited that out of the footage that made the air.
Has anyone else picked up the book?
In the middle of the book there is a photograph of the four stars of TDVDS singing "I Am a Fine Musician", as well as Annie Leibowitz's photograph of DVD and MTM dressed up as clowns that originally appeared in the Vanity Fair magazine.
As MTM describes the importance of the "Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman" special to catapaulting her career with CBS, she uses the words "genius" and "generosity" to describe Dick.
And she describes the "Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited" reunion special as being "wonderful." What I did not know is that MTM has had to stop her dancing due to her declining health, and that MTM had a lot of difficulty finding the right choreography and movements that she could do to complete her opening ballet scene as the older Laura Petrie.
In other section of the book, MTM talks about making a pratfall like Dick when she made her entrance on the Oprah Winfrey show, apparently due to her lack of peripheral vision. Apparently they edited that out of the footage that made the air.
Has anyone else picked up the book?