![]() People are not to become specimens to pick apart and try to reassemble, but rather, to explain just as they are-fully assembled and in-tact. ![]() The glimpses we have of Grant's films and early life and career are refreshing escapes from the otherwise tediousness of this book.īiographers owe it to readers to portray their subject according to facts, not according to a thesis. Instead of receiving a well-rounded, fascinating, and complexly engaging portrait of Grant (as other books offer), we find this biography being the slightly-higher-literary-calibered version of a trashy tabloid we may find at the supermarket check-out. Although the actor's sexual orientation is of little interest to a fan of the movie star and Hollywood legends in general, Eliot acts as if Grant's orientation is the governing motive of everything in Grant's life. This being said, I approached Marc Eliot's biography with great excitement and hope-and was left with my feelings drastically dashed to bits upon the floor.Įliot's biography of Grant is very narrow-minded, gossipy, and tediously obsessed with the details of Grant's supposed bisexuality. As a long-time Cary Grant fan, I am perhaps biased to enjoy anything related to the actor. ![]()
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