Peekaboo: The Story of Veronica Lake
by Jeff Lenburg
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Author: Jeff LenburgEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-08-08
ISBN: 0595192394
Number of pages: 270
Publisher: iUniverse
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Book Review: "There's always a girl in the picture"
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm happy (and puzzled) that this text is coming back out. Lenburg's biography is informational, and perhaps best read alongside Lake's out-of-print autobiography. You won't find the "real" Veronica in either, but the differences between the two accounts are instructive. Both are written for a popular audience, mass-market, both participate giddily in the "tell-all" variety of maintenance/ construction of Lake as a Hollywood icon and "fallen star." However, Lenburg seems to want to blame everything negative that happened to Veronica on a report from her mother that as a child she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Lake's mother was at one time involved in a bitter lawsuit with her daughter, and the circumstances surrounding the "diagnosis" are fuzzy at best, yet Lenburg accepts it as truth and keeps coming back to it as his "primal scene." It's the "hysterical woman" all over again, and an interesting read despite itself, to see how pervasive that motif is in popular culture.
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