Title: Tired old stories cobbled together by Levine Worshipper
Product review: While I was happy that this book avoided the calculatedly catty tone of Hoelterhoff's misbegotten "Cinderella and Co.", most of it reads like a Met tour guide's script. The description of one Met impresario succeeding another reads like those interminable 'this one begat that one, who begat that one, etc' parts of the Bible. And those worn out old stories about Kathleen Battle's bad behavior have been repeated so many times that every community college freshman voice major is weary of them.Plus all the parts about Maestro Levine sound like they were written by Aunt Bea if she were Levine's publicist. "Oh, Andy! Can you believe these dreadful things they are saying about Jimmy!" It's as though the only times that Fiedler took her hand away from her pearls was to speed dial Levine and submit her latest draft for his approval.
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