The DIVINE BETTE MIDLER [Board book]

Spada (Author)

Product Details

• Board book: 214 pages
• Publisher: Scribner (November 1, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0026125900
• ISBN-13: 978-0026125901
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 6.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,700,464 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

As a thirteen-year-old kid in Staten Island, James Spada started the first Marilyn Monroe Memorial Fan Club. He produced four bulletins and one yearbook a year for four years, when he had to disband the club due to lack of money.
In college he founded EMK: The Edward M. Kennedy Quarterly, and worked as an intern in Senator Kennedy's Boston office in 1970.

At 23 his first book, Barbra: The First Decade--The Films and Career of Barbra Streisand, was published. He followed that up with the authorized book The Films of Robert Redford. He went on to write illustrated coffee-table books about Streisand, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Midler, Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty, and Jane Fonda.

In 1987 his first non-pictorial biography, Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess, became a major international bestseller. He followed that up with intimate biographies of Peter Lawford, Bette Davis, Barbra Streisand, and Julia Roberts.

His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, People, Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, The New York Times Book Review, McCall's, the Los Angeles Times, the London Sunday Express, and many other publications.

In 2010 his first work of fiction, Days When My Heart was Volcanic--A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe, was published.

In recent years he has become equally renowned as a photographer of the male nude. His first collection, Black & White Men, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award as the Best Visual Arts Book of 2000.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Addition, March 11, 2007

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Julie L. Vass - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Divine Bette Midler (Paperback)

I am a huge Bette fan. This would be a great addition to anyone's collection! Thank you!

5.0 out of 5 stars Those photographs!!!!!!, October 6, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The DIVINE BETTE MIDLER (Board book)

I highly recommend this out of print book for the photos alone.....especially the early ones taken by Richard Brezner. WOW! His shots of Bette at the Continental Baths are spectacular. Thank you, Mr. Brezner. Grab this book if you are a Bette Midler fan!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What the others had to say about her.., November 25, 1998

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S. Baldwin (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The DIVINE BETTE MIDLER (Board book)

The book is a good read and is very well reasearched. However, it is one of those books that has got all the information around the actual subject and combines that with information which is in the public domain in order to draw its picture and conclusion. Of course, Bette''s life has moved on considereably since this book was published, right down and all the way back up there again.