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Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love Hardcover – July 1, 2014

by C. David Heymann (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars 39 customer reviews
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  • Hardcover: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books; First Edition edition (July 1, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1439191778
  • ISBN-13: 978-1439191774
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
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2.0 out of 5 starsPut Marilyn in a bad light...
By OpenBookSociety dot com on August 10, 2014
Format: Kindle Edition
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Let me first tell you that I love biographies. It doesn’t matter if they’re movie stars or war veterans; politicians or animals. I read them like I read any other book, but with a catch: in a novel, you expect to connect to the characters somehow, to try and like them or at least be willing to spend a few hours of your time with them (or however long it takes to read the book). With biographies, you expect to learn about the person; their likes and dislikes, their manner, their thoughts, ideas, and how they lived their lives. Well, I did learn how Ms. Monroe and Mr. DiMaggio lived their lives. But it wasn’t exactly what I was expecting.

The keyword here from the blurb is “scandals”. The way Mr. Heymann portrays Ms. Monroe is as follows: A nymphomanic who liked to walk around in the nude high on drugs and would sleep with anything that wore pants. (Mr. DiMaggio doesn’t fare any better; we are told – but very few examples are given – that he would sleep with any woman who came near him). In fact, according to this “biography” that’s all they did – sleep with each other and anyone else who crossed their paths. From the way Mr. Heyman describes it, I am sure their marriage didn’t survive not because their personalities were so different, but the fact that they couldn’t stay faithful to each other.

Nearly everything the author tells us I already knew: Marilyn’s childhood, teenage years, first marriage, the heavy drug use, the Kennedy years, etc. The only new stuff was the numerous – nay,constant affairs she was having. It reads as if she were having so many affairs, she wasn’t tired from the work she was doing while in Hollywood; all her energy was sapped from having to sleep with so many people.Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 stars"PULP FICTION" don't believe everything you read - it's been uncovered: Heyman's a complete fraud
By Robert A. Grossman VINE VOICE on September 7, 2014
Format: Kindle Edition
At the time I wrote this review, this book had an average review of 4 1/2 stars here at Amazon.

This book is riddled with lies about JFK, RFK, Marilyn, Jackie, and just about every significant person allegedly written about in this or any of the author's celebrity biographies. An article by Newsweek's Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston in the September 5, 2014 issue of Newsweek Magazine claims numerous fabrications in this book. What's far more significant is that pretty much all of this very successful author's biographies are complete B.S. According to the article,"for 30 years...major publishers gave Heymann big advances, and respected media outlets--the New Yorker, The New York Times, People, Vanity Fair, USA Today and NPR--praised and promoted his books. I (Johnston) had exposed his first celebrity bio as a fraud on the front page of the Los Angeles Times back in 1983, and knew his methods hadn't changed over the years.

An example: In one of his celebrity bios Heymann names a Los Angeles doctor and claims the doctor prescribed unsuitable meds to the celebrity. The doctor came forward to dispute it. As it turns out, the doctor was 14 at the time the alleged unethical medical practice by him was committed.

The article is extensive. I'm not going to copy and paste the entire thing. If you're one who highly praised this or any of Heymann's books as genuine or filled with fact based upon extensive research, I think you owe it to yourself to read the article. If you do read the article and wrote a positive review here at Amazon or anywhere else for that matter, I think you owe it to your fellow readers, as well as to your personal credibility that you amend your review accordingly.Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 starsFalse quotes
By Benjamin Solotaire on September 19, 2014
Format: Hardcover
I haven't read this book but my father is quoted several times since he knew Joe, my grandfather lived with him. I do know that my father never talked to the author and the quotes attributed to him are not from him. They are fabricated so I would question any other material presented.
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3.0 out of 5 starsDiMaggio was always there for Monroe in her most desperate moments, which is what makes this love story so compelling, even now.
By Amazon Customer on August 4, 2014
Format: Hardcover
Reading JOE AND MARILYN, the latest volume about the on-again/off-again relationship between the Hall of Fame Yankee and the Hollywood icon, I was reminded what the Jewish sage Hillel said when challenged to explain the entirety of the Torah while standing on one foot. “That which is hateful to you, do not unto another,” he replied. “This is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary.”

The late C. David Heymann’s final book falls along this concept. DiMaggio loved Monroe (in his fashion); Monroe loved DiMaggio (in hers). The rest is commentary. And a lot of it.

Heymann offers bits and pieces from dozens of other sources. In one uncited reference, he includes a passage about one of Monroe’s nurses meeting DiMaggio: ‘“I immediately recognized [him],’ she said. ‘He was a tall, handsome, imposing figure in a double-breasted dark blue suit, French cuffed-shirt, hand-painted tie, spit-polished shoes, and a designer overcoat on his arm.”’ The book is full of similarly detailed accounts of what people wore, the hotels in which they stayed, the meals they ate, the alcohol they drank, etc. --- apparently more interested in appearances than substance. None of the references are specifically cited. I suppose providing footnotes would have added more pages than the publisher was willing to accommodate.

Celebrity biographies and memoirs have become much more explicit in recent years, a reflection of prurient times. A generation ago, authors never would have included anatomical descriptions and euphemisms for genitalia. Monroe is described, charitably, as a woman who enjoyed the company of men.Read more ›
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