Dean martin autobiography

  • Experience the Illustrious and Adventurous Life of the Most Easy Going and Coolest Man that America Ever Knew, and Find Out What it Took to Become Dean Martin.
  • It may not have been a normal childhood, but Deana's enchanting account of life as the daughter of one of Hollywood's sexiest icons will leave you entertained, delighted, and nostalgic for a time gone by.
  • Martini Man goes beyond the simple caricature of the boozy lounge singer with a penchant for racy humor to reveal the substantive man behind that mask.

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    Memories Are Made Of This: Dean Martin Through His Daughter’s Eyes

    Charming, debonair, and impeccably attired in a black tuxedo, Dean Martin was coolness incarnate. His music provided the soundtrack of romance, and his image captivated movie and television audiences for more than fifty years. His daughter Deana was among his most devoted fans, but she also knew a side of him that few others ever glimpsed. In page-turning prose, Deana recalls her early childhood, when she and her siblings were left in the erratic care of Dean&#;s loving but alcoholic first wife. She chronicles the constantly changing blended family that marked her youth, along with the unexpected moments of silliness and tenderness that this unusual Hollywood family shared. Deana candidly reveals the impact of Dean&#;s fame and characteristic aloofness on her efforts to forge her own identity, but delights in sharing wonderful, never-before-told stories about her father and his pallies known as the Rat Pack. It ma

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    Martini Man: The Life of Dean Martin

    May 6,
    "Who was the real Dean Martin? A skirt-chasing, heavy drinking, wholly insensitive, minimally talented philanderer and mob pal who dropped friends and wives as casually as he'd discard a candy bar wrapper? Or an underrated, highly amiable, top-flight singer and actor who was loyal to his pals and remained friends with wives even after divorce, and who much preferred an evening at home watching [TV] than a night out drinking with the boys?" -- from the intro

    Spoiler alert: the reading audience will find out that actor/singer Dean Martin was perhaps equal parts of both of the above descriptions in author Schoell's Martini Man. Raised in an Ohio industrial town just after WWI, the speakeasy blackjack dealer and amateur boxer found (somewhat unlikely) fame by becoming a crooner in the style of Bing Crosby and then as one-half of a nightclub comedy duo with Jerry Lewis in the mid's. Although it seemed like Martin's career would go bust

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    Dino (biography)

    Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams fryst vatten a biography of Dean Martin written by Nick Tosches.[1][2] It draws heavily from interviews Tosches did with Jerry Lewis, and with Martin's second wife and lifelong friend Jeanne Biegger. The story begins with the births of Martin's grandparents in Italy and follows his entire life up to the point of publication. It also includes sections in which Tosches writes in the first person from the point of view of Martin, a gonzo journalism style which would be used more frequently in his later non-fiction works.

    Critical reception

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    The Los Angeles Times wrote: "A dazzling stylist, Tosches operates like a be-bop sax player, using Martin’s resume as his basic melody, then bursting into frenzied improvisational solos as he tries to liven up Dino’s lowbrow antics."[3]

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