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The touched-by-fame memoir tends to be of one of two varieties.
There’s the star as monster, as in Joan Crawford’s daughter’s vicious Mommie Dearest. Then there’s the star as more-or-less like you and me except for some beguiling eccentricities, as in Stanley Kubrick and Me, written by his longterm chauffeur. Inevitably, the former is more compelling than the latter.
The actor David Wood’s charming account of his 50 years in showbusiness offers some (1968) is endearingly naive for someone who has had a successful acting career, as well as being a pioneer of children’s theatre.
