Julia Roberts Confidential: The Unauthorised Biography (Hardcover)

~ Paul Donnelley (Author)

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Product Description

Life hasn't always been so kind to Julia Roberts - the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. Paul Donnelly takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride, from the success of "Pretty Woman" to the high-profile flop "Hook" and the re-establishment of her reputation with Notting Hill in 1999, through to her Academy Award for Best Actress for Erin Brockovich and her surprise wedding in 2002. "Confidential" also lifts the lid on Roberts' sensational personal life - a life that has put her in the headlines more often than her movies.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Virgin Books; illustrated edition edition (October 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1852270233
• ISBN-13: 978-1852270230
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #985,973 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't consider this book!!, July 20, 2004

By	Oliver F. - See all my reviews

What can you say about a book, in which all of Julia's former boyfriends and her ex-husband and "almost-husbands" and "actual" husband are listed and the whole thing is called "Boyfriendography" (according to "Filmography")? I have never read anything more disrespectful about Julia, than this book! And the whole story is called "confidential" - although Julia hasn't been involved in the making of this book at all... After you've read it, you know why! To relate the quality of her movies and especially her way of acting in them to the number of people who went to see it at the cinema (the so called "success"...) and, even worse, to the relationship with her boyfriend at the time when the films originate, is kind of sick! The whole thing is not worth the paper it is written on. Even the photographs in that book don't make it worthwhile to buy it. On the one hand, they are only in black and white and on the other hand you can find all of them or similar ones elsewhere - and then you are not confronted with sentences, meant to "explain" the pictures in a way like "Julia with soon to be ex-boyfriend..." I find this book absolutely sickening!!! So if you are a fan of Julia and you want to save your stomach, don't buy this book!!! I regret to ever have done so... But now I threw it into the paper waste - and believe me - it doesn't deserve more!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Julia Julia Julia, September 7, 2004

By	Peter D "Peter D" (London) - See all my reviews

A great book and one that gets under Julia's skin. We are all governed by our hormones and our work is obviously part of this. Julia's love life has been covered very heavily because it impacts so greatly on her work.
If you only read one book on Julia read this one!