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Dino : La belle vie dans la sale industrie du rêve (1992)

par Nick Tosches

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From dealing blackjack in the small-time gangster  town of Steubenville, Ohio, to carousing with the  famous "Rat Pack" in a Hollywood he  called home, Dean Martin lived in a grandstand,  guttering life of booze, broads, and big money. He  rubbed shoulders with the mob, the Kennedys, and  Hollywood's biggest stars. He was one of America's  favorite entertainers. But no one really knew him.  Now Nick Tosches reveals the man behind the  image--the dark side of the American dream. It's a  wild, illuminating, sometimes shocking tale of sex,  ambition, heartaches--and a life lived hard, fast,  and without  apologies.… (plus d'informations)
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Con il consueto stile irruente (di cui talvolta si compiace) e appoggiandosi a un’imponente bibliografia, Tosches narra i tempi della vita di Dean Martin partendo dall’arrivo dei genitori dall’Abruzzo e terminando con la decadenza fisica e psicologica degli ultimi giorni. Per il resto, Dino naviga il mondo cercando di coglierne il bello (il godurioso) e facendosi scivolare addosso ciò che gira intorno: decine e decine di figure secondarie provenienti in egual modo dalla malavita e dall’ambiente dello spettacolo popolano queste pagine in una coazione a ripetere gli stessi percorsi perché gli altri non interessano.
Martin gestisce bene il successo – montagne di dollaroni da cinema, canzoni, televisione, varietà – e molto meno i rapporti umani: all’esterno fascinoso e alla mano, Dean si rivela un anaffettivo che preferisce le donne usa-e-getta e finisce a far cozzare il proprio ego con quello dei due grandi nomi che si dividono la sua vita pubblica, ovvero Jerry Lewis e Frank Sinatra.
Entrambi comunque ne escono peggio del protagonista, per il quale l’autore dà l’impressione di provare profondo rispetto se non simpatia: tra sesso a gogò, alcool e droghe, soldi poco puliti e compagnie discutibili, Martin resta in piedi fin quasi alla fine accarezzando al contempo il pubblico televisivo di prima serata.
Forse perché a lui non importava, chissenefrega. ( )
  catcarlo | Sep 25, 2020 |
Dino! Yeah, this is the biography that re-shaped the way celebrity biographies were written. It also brought Dean Martin back to the forefront, just three years before he died. This is the type of book that can polarize fans, but there is no doubt that it breaks the barriers. After this, Dino became a cult god, the Swinger of Swingers for the Generation X crowd.

I actually read this again, about 15 years after the first read-through. It still stands up, although I've read so many other Dean Martin biographies since then that some of the information is old news. But lordy, it truly rocks. In essence, Tosches tackled a subject that could not be tackled. Dino wasn't Frankie. Dino presented a mask to the outside world, so he could enjoy his own world. Work was work and play was play, even if 'play' constituted a night in front of the telly. Martin never wanted to be the best of anything, yet he became a giant without a whole lot of effort. Tosches has to create something out of nothing and he succeeds. Whether you like it or not doesn't make the book any less compelling.

Funny. As a kid, I always thought it was "Dean-No." I yelled that at the book whenever I found another incident not to my liking. In the long run, I ended up admiring the Deanster even more for being able to tell Hollywood, and the world, to sit on it and twirl.

Book Season = Year Round (bio classic)

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1 voter Gold_Gato | Sep 16, 2013 |
As with Tosches' other books, Dino is about a lot more than its titular subject, though the life of Dean Martin is covered in thoroughly-researched detail. Dino is a key piece of Tosches' larger project of illuminating the darker corners of the American 20th Century, and especially its popular culture. Gamblers, mobsters, sleazy movie execs, and their various associates all play a role here, alongside the big names - Sinatra, Marilyn, the Kennedys, Reagan, John Wayne, and, of course, Jerry Lewis, who apparently granted Tosches a very open and uncensored interview.

Tosches gets great mileage out of colliding highbrow and lowbrow, the sacred and the profane, and out of these collisions produces a cracking style. An amazing portrait. Truly the life AND times of an (Italian-) American original.
1 voter sb3000 | Aug 10, 2008 |
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From dealing blackjack in the small-time gangster  town of Steubenville, Ohio, to carousing with the  famous "Rat Pack" in a Hollywood he  called home, Dean Martin lived in a grandstand,  guttering life of booze, broads, and big money. He  rubbed shoulders with the mob, the Kennedys, and  Hollywood's biggest stars. He was one of America's  favorite entertainers. But no one really knew him.  Now Nick Tosches reveals the man behind the  image--the dark side of the American dream. It's a  wild, illuminating, sometimes shocking tale of sex,  ambition, heartaches--and a life lived hard, fast,  and without  apologies.

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