Title: Making Tallulah Dull
Review: Unexpectedly finding a new biography of Tallulah Bankhead was a joy. Reading it, however, proved arduous. The author manages to take one of the 20th century's most interesting lives and make it stultifyingly dull. Choosing to rehash play plots in detail and to death, the author takes the spotlight off of the woman while trying to illustrate her.It was a bad choice.The author has obvious affection for his subject, but at the clear cost of his objectivity. Not a chapter goes by where he doesn't sound like an apologist for her most outrageous behaviors or take umbrage with her most scathing reviews.This is a tough read, but a significant one. The author succeeds in an area I would have thought impossible.He makes Tallulah Bankhead boring.
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