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The Memory of All That: Love and Politics in New York, Hollywood, and Paris ReviewBetsy Blair has a lot of interesting stories to tell - she was married to one of the 20th Century's entertainment geniuses (not that we get to hear a great deal about what made him tick), and she survived the infamous Blacklist. She has an unfortunate habit of trying to put a happy face on every situation, however, and the only times her real grit shows through are when she expresses her bitterness (over the way she was shafted in her divorce from Kelly, and in the way she disappeared from view in the Blacklist, for instance). Her anger when she reads through her files from the FBI and the armed forces is palpable. I would have liked to see more of that feist and less of the Pollyanna attitude.
I can understand a woman's need to come into her own and to be independent. After all, Blair was a teenager when she met and fell in love with the older Kelly, and she was a mother before her 18th birthday. She had a LOT of growing up to do. In this disjointed memoir, it is difficult to determine when that growing actually took place. She stayed with Kelly until it was no longer convenient to do so (i.e., when she fell in love with another man after a series of affairs), and then stayed with that man until she found yet another. That doesn't sound terribly "independent" to me.
I might have been able to give the book five stars if it weren't as I said above, disjointed. For instance, at the end of a chapter that has nothing at all to do with it, she describes a charming encounter when, on Coronation Day in London, she, her daughter and her then-husband are making their way through Hyde Park Corner in order to get to their viewing area for the festivities. This is a lovely anecdote about the Londoners making a path for them and serenading them with "Singing in the Rain." The only problem is that the story is told after the chapters dealing with the divorce from Kelly and at the end of a chapter dealing with her living in Paris with her new love. As I say, disjointed.
The stories are compelling and the language is fairly interesting (though the phrase "was, and is" tends to be overused). I just wish it had been put into a more cohesive form so that we could get a better chronological view of Miss Blair's growth, if any, as a person.The Memory of All That: Love and Politics in New York, Hollywood, and Paris Overview

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