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Helen Mirren: The Biography

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Just thumbing through this I found two errors. Russell Crowe
did not win back to back Oscars and Helen did not lose to
Susan Sarandon but to Dianne Wiest in 1994. Don't know how many
more there are. Too bad the author did this because it makes
me suspect that there are other inaccuracies. Dame Helen
deserves better. There are a lot of nice photographs included.

The greatest actress in the world deserves a masterpiece of a biography-and this book is no masterpiece. Aside from many inaccuracies, it's weirdly short on information about it's subject. Entire sections are about other people (eg. the inspriration for Jane Tennison-interesting, but not appropriate in a book about someone else!) The author seems to be trying desperately to fill his book, and too much of it is useless information. A real disappointment. While I collect every movie and item I can get my hands on that has Helen Mirren in it, not even I would buy this book (thankfully I found it at my library). Any pertinent information it contains can be found easily on the internet. I hope a good writer out there is planning on honoring this divine woman with a stellar biography. It's long overdue.