An incredible biography. A must read for any actor or artist. ( )

stunning, moving .. both dispassionate and nuanced observations by a keen writer who happens to have been the daughter of her subject in this biography. courtney manages to maintain an amazing dispassion about and sensitivity to her subject ... and has in her own life the richness of experience from which to draw about being one of laurette's taylor's two adored but distantly parented children. some sections just break your heart with the fragile delicate writing about the experience of the children (courtney writes in the third person .. this isn't HER story but her mother's ... she keeps that line clear .. the events in her and her brother's lives just add the details) ... its a fascinating study.