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Been There, Done That [Hardcover]

Eddie Fisher (Author), David Fisher (Author)
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Who would've thought that Eddie Fisher, cheesy pop singer, pipsqueak Mouseketeer to the Rat Pack, speed freak and coke fool, AWOL daddy, discarded Liz Taylor boy toy, and husband from hell could pen a memoir as entertaining as his talented daughter Carrie's? Granted, he has the help of autobiographer to the stars David Fisher (no relation), but still, it's startling how sleekly readable Fisher's misadventures are, and shocking that he comes off with raffish charm and a sense of humor.

Don't worry, there's not too much about Eddie's dull, madly successful singing career--he wasn't that interested in it either. He preferred women. Warning: as is the case with Robert Evans's comparably entertaining sex-and-drugs tell-all, The Kid Stays in the Picture, we can't know whether it's all true. Some of Eddie's alleged women have denied dalliance. Did he really get naked with Joan Collins ("the British Open") in Dean Martin's pool, screaming along with Dino and Brando until the cops came? Did he share Sue Lyon with Richard Burton and Judy Campbell with Sinatra, JFK, and Sam Giancana? (Eddie doubts Campbell's story that she passed documents from JFK to mobster Sam.) Did Jackie turn JFK onto amphetamine fiend Max Jacobson, the famed "Dr. Feelgood" who destroyed his own life and 30 years of Eddie's? Were Bob Hope's military-base shows really "sex tours"? His bitterness makes one doubt he gives first wife Debbie Reynolds ("the Iron Butterfly") a fair shake. Did Liz Taylor drive away, naked and hysterical, in her Cadillac when Eddie suggested she see a psychiatrist? Did Burton beat her, and did she try to steal My Fair Lady from her friend Audrey Hepburn? In a Munich suite once used by Mussolini to entertain Hitler, did Liz bite Eddie as he dug pills out of her mouth to save her life? Did Liz bed Rock Hudson and Montgomery Clift? Read Fisher and see what you believe. --Tim Appelo

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Teen idol Fisher tells the story of his rise from poverty to 1950s crooner stardom and beyond in this alternately self-delighted and repentant new memoir (his second, following Eddie: My Life, My Loves, Harper & Row, 1981). Born in Philadelphia in 1928, Fisher was a star by age 21, launching his own TV show, Coke Time, in 1953, with such hits as "Outside of Heaven" and "Oh, My Papa": "I had more consecutive hit records than the Beatles or Elvis Presley," Fisher writes. But, he says, with characteristic melodrama, "the music simply became a means to the drugs and the women." Despite warnings from friends (and from the Coca-Cola company, which informed Fisher that he was "married" to them), he wed movie star Debbie Reynolds, and here one reads of the various conflictsAsexual and otherwiseAof the couple who were widely hailed as "America's Sweethearts." The death of his friend Mike Todd and Fisher's passion for Elizabeth Taylor created a dilemma: "I had to figure out how to announce to the world that I was leaving sweet little Debbie for my best friend's widow without destroying Elizabeth's and my careers." The backlash brought 7000 pieces of hate mail weekly and fans organized an "Eddie-Liz boycott." Fisher was "madly in love" with Taylor, and the book offers an intimate glimpse into his anguish after her Cleopatra costar, Richard Burton intervened. In the final chapters, Fisher recalls his battle to get off drugs, his numerous affairs with a lengthy parade of beautiful women, his desperate efforts to keep his career afloat, his relationships with his famous children Carrie and Joely Fisher and his 1993 marriage to Betty Linn. The title of this memoir seems to suit the autobiography of a has-been. But Fisher offers his regrets, insights and anecdotes with so much verve, wit and candor that one can see that the crooner of yesteryear is still very much alive. 16 pages of b&w photos unseen by PW. Author tour, excerpt booklets. (Sept.) FYI: Dove's abridged audiobook features Eddie Fisher as the reader.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars "There was a meth to my madness.", Oct 14 2008
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Kona (Emerald City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Been There, Done That (Hardcover)
I was never an Eddie Fisher fan but I still enjoyed reading this autobiography. A lot. In it, Fisher comes across as the most egotistical man ever to write a book; according to him he had the best voice, was the biggest star, and greatest lover in history. His never-ending hubris gets to be quite comical, actually, as he never tires of singing his own praises.

He cheerfully admits to being the world's worst father ("I didn't see my kids for years at a time.") and blames all his troubles on his decades-long drug addiction. But his famous marriages and non-stop love affairs are what make this a real page-turner. He happily names names and sullies the reputations of practically every well-known (at the time) star in Hollywood while simply saying he was as irresistible to women as they were to him. Married five times, he dishes the dirt on Elizabeth Taylor and Connie Stevens and is especially unkind to Debbie Reynolds.

The book is written in a happy-go-lucky, chatty style designed to show how vulnerable he was through most of his career, while laughing off the endless bad choices he made. I was surprised at how fascinated I became with his story and how much I enjoyed this tell-all book.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Sleazy, Slimy and Degrading, Dec 9 2003
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This review is from: Been There, Done That (Mass Market Paperback)
This guy is such a joke. It's no fun to read about a has-been dishing dirt when you aren't even sure what details are true and which aren't. Plus he's so incredibly self-involved and egotistical - his head is so swollen that it would be impossible to measure its circumference. Carrie Fisher, by her own admission, has refused to speak to Eddie since the publication of this book, and I can't say as I blame her. I don't consider him to be all that self-effacing. Even when he tries, it comes out as whiny and defensive. The only way that this book ever could be considered as a good, interesting read is to go through and try to imagine how someone this conceited ever made it as huge as he claims to have done. Rubbish.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Disgusting and petty, Nov 23 2003
This review is from: Been There, Done That (Mass Market Paperback)
Fisher is a class A jerk. Don't spend even a penny on this book, unless you just particularly enjoy sordid and vindictive, self-glorifying and absurd "versions" of truth. I get the impression that Fisher was jealous of a great many of the people he smears in this book, and that he didn't have enough sense or decency to keep his mouth shut. He hurt himself more than anyone else by writing this book, and I don't see how anyose, especially his ex-wives or children could ever have ANY respect for him again---if they ever had.
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