On 2003-02-20 , wrote: I was greatly looking forward to reading this book, but, like another reviewer, found it rather slow going. Bach gives a very thorough chronicle of Hart´s life, including details about every production, but somehow the essence of Hart didn´t come through for me until the last few chapters. Despite Bach´s repeated statements that Hart was charming, amusing, full of joie de vivre, etc., I didn´t find much to illustrate that. I guess I was hoping for more examples from his work, more quotes from people who knew him personally, etc. I suspect that Kitty Carlisle Hart´s refusal to cooperate meant that several of the people closest to the Harts also declined to be interviewed.
The book does pick up steam in the final quarter,when Bach discusses Hart´s involvement with ´My Fair Lady´ and ´Camelot.´ Even so, I thought that Alan Jay Lerner´s 10-odd pages on Hart in his memoir (´The Street Where I Live´)did more to really bring the man alive.. And summed up by saying Thorough, but somewhat disappointing. Currently Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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claimed From the Algonquin Round Table to the Gershwins and the Hollywood moguls, Moss Hart knew and delighted everybody. Vanity Fair has called him ´one of American theater´s greatest geniuses,´ the man responsible for such indelible successes as A Star Is Born, Camelot, and My Fair Lady. His rags-to-riches autobiography, Act One, became one of the most successful and beloved books ever published about the lure of the theater. But it ended at the beginning--when Hart was only twenty-five. Now, at last, we have the whole and far richer story in this first full-scale biography of ´the Prince of Broadway.´ Here Steven Bach explores the private Moss Hart, revealing his struggles with self-doubt, depression, and sexual identity, and the public one, recounting his creativity and charisma, his wit and grace. With thorough research and graceful prose, Steven Bach takes us on a journey to another time and place, where one man created a dazzling world for himself and for all American theatergoers.
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