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"This book is about men I have known, in both the Platonic and Biblical senses. Some I knew only slightly, some quite well. Some I'll love always, some I no longer like very much, and there area few I'd like to strip naked, tie to a Maypole, smear with sweet syrup near a beehive, then stand back and watch. I'll describe a goodly number of these hot dudes-and"duds-"keeping...more "This book is about men I have known, in both the Platonic and Biblical senses. Some I knew only slightly, some quite well. Some I'll love always, some I no longer like very much, and there area few I'd like to strip naked, tie to a Maypole, smear with sweet syrup near a beehive, then stand back and watch. I'll describe a goodly number of these hot dudes-and"duds-"keeping the nicest man for last because--if for nothing else--I'd like to leave you, dear reader, with a good taste in your mouth, and Hubbies #3 and #4 mightmake you want to rush to gargle. There were times I truly wondered, "Lord, will I EVER get it right? "Thank God I thrive on variety."
--From "My First Five Husbands . . . Andthe Ones Who Got Away
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People always ask me if I'm like Blanche. And I say, 'Well, Blanche was an oversexed, self-involved, man-crazy, vain Southern Belle from Atlanta -- andI'm not from Atlanta '" -- Rue McClanahan
Who can forget Rue McClanahan as the sexy Southern vixen, Blanche Devereaux, on the Emmy-award winning series "The GoldenGirls"? With her breezy sex appeal and sharp comedic timing, Rue infused her character with a sassy "joie de vivre" that captured the hearts of women everywhere. Now, the actress behind the magicreveals her life in and out of the spotlight in a laugh-out-loud funny memoir about love, marriage, men, and getting older that is every bit as colorful as the characters she plays."
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Raised in small-town Oklahoma in a house "thirteen telephone poles past the standpipe north of town," Rue developed her two great passions-theater andmen-at an early age. She arrived in New York City in 1957 with two-weeks worth of money in her pocket, hustled her way into a class with the legendary Uta Hagen, and began working her way up in the acting worldagainst the vibrant, free-spirited backdrop of the sixties. That's when she met and married Husband #1-a handsome rogue of an aspiring actor who quickly left her with a young son. Still, she wasdetermined to make it on the stage and screen-and in the years that followed, rose to the top of the entertainment world with a host of adventures (and husbands) along the way.
From her roleson Broadway opposite Dustin Hoffman and Brad Davis, to her first television appearances on "Maude" and "All in the Family," " "to the "Golden Girls "eraand beyond, "My First Five Husbands" is the irresistible story of one woman's quest to find herself. Now happily married to her soul mate, Husband #6, Rue is proof that many things can and do getbetter with age-and that, if she keeps her wits about her, even a small-town girl can make it big.
Told with Rue's saucy wit and Southern charm, "My First Fivehusbands" is a deliciously entertaining take on life and love from an irrepressible star.(less)

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Published April 10th 2007 by Broadway Books (first published 2007)

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Aug 19, 2008 Maria Zukin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I loved this book. I felt as though Blanche Deveraux herself was sitting on a wicker sofa, detailing every sordid moment of her life to me, as she sipped a mint julep and buffed her nails. She's extremely funny and a wonderful story-teller, allowing over 70 years to pour out in scintillating, well-timed prose. Definitely a modern thinker and irrepressibly optimistic, McClanahan makes even life's hardest knocks seem colorful and uplifting in a fiddle-dee-dee sort of way. She's awesome.

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Oct 30, 2008 Nicole rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Fans of The Golden Girls

As a big fan of the Golden Girls, I was interested in getting to know more about Rue McClanahan and how much she was like Blanche. It took me a while to finish this book because in a lot of ways it was sad. Rue is a really bad decision maker when it comes to men and relationships and I stopped reading the book about 1/3 through because I didn't want to know what stupid thing she was going to do to ruin her life next. I did finally decide I wanted to know how it ended so I finished it. She does g...more

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Sep 03, 2012 Mediaman rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Rue McClanahan provides cheap thrills to fans looking for sexual stories in this raunchy memoir that is mostly about the many men she bedded and wedded.

Not only did she dump her first fiancé and then marry a first husband but she married a second husband before her first divorce was final. During the same time period she slept with her second husband's best friend and moved with the buddy to California, where she soon sleeps with a different guy. Yes, that's four guys in one month. Oh, and did I...more Rue McClanahan provides cheap thrills to fans looking for sexual stories in this raunchy memoir that is mostly about the many men she bedded and wedded.

Not only did she dump her first fiancé and then marry a first husband but she married a second husband before her first divorce was final. During the same time period she slept with her second husband's best friend and moved with the buddy to California, where she soon sleeps with a different guy. Yes, that's four guys in one month. Oh, and did I mention she had an illegitimate baby in the middle of all this that she abandoned to follow the California guy?

Then a few months later she is back getting pregnant by her second husband, goes to Mexico for an illegal abortion and two days later starts an affair with her movie director. All while her son is ignored and moved among relatives and friends.

It's all pretty disgusting, even more so because she plays it for laughs. She doesn't apologize for almost anything (though she does say she regrets the abortion) but tries to justify her life saying "learn from me what not to do."

She also claims some type of innocence in the book but it's all an act. She earns money by appearing nude in the 1950s (who did that back then?) and has sex with one guy while saying she's thinking about another guy. She seems so proud of banging guys that the book contains grades for her sexual partners. Meanwhile she repeatedly says how upset she is that she can't afford to have her son live with her. Ya, right.

Are we supposed to feel sympathy for her? Okay, her dad was emotionally distant and never hugged her--we get it. But she should have taken responsibility for her immoral actions and learned from her mistakes instead of playing men like a game. She chose immorality, it didn't just fall in her lap as she tries to claim. She even crudely slams the Catholic Church--which she chose to convert to before breaking up with her first fiance even though she claims she didn't believe any of it.

Near the end she tries to sound sympathetic by mentioning her cancer and happiness with her sixth husband. But the final page in the book is an endorsement of PETA and a plug for the organization's website!

Readers that love some of Rue's naughty characters will probably like this book and she writes with a flair that makes her immorality entertaining. Eventually she gives blunt opinions about the shows and people she worked with. But you've got to get through hundreds of pages of trash in order to find the nuggets. Give the book four stars for entertainment value and zero stars for the life of the person who wrote it.

It leaves the reader with a question: why would anyone boast about being a slut in an autobiography? Ultimately she proves what an untrustworthy wife and mother she was, leaving an image that's impossible to shake when watching her in reruns. (less)

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Jun 13, 2011 Jen A. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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3.5-4 stars -- a much more "story-like" memoir than the last two I read (Tiny Fey & Betty White), and I have to say I enjoyed this format more than the others. McClanahan relates her life story from growing up in rural Oklahoma, to trying to break into the stage & film business, to her success as a Golden Girl, tying together the chapters of her story with a "men of my life" ribbon. She's refreshingly candid but you can't forget while you read that you're only hearing one half of the sto...more

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May 03, 2012 mw138 rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have been a fan of The Golden Girls since I was child. I own every season on DVD and watch it whenever it's on TV. People wonder why someone as young I am loves a show about four older women living together in Miami. My answer, it's a good show, pure and simple. When I found out that Rue McClanahan, Blanche Devareaux on the show, wrote an autobiography, it piqued my interest....especially the title. I was pleasantly surprised. I had no idea that what colorful life Rue had prior to her success...more

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Aug 20, 2009 Lilly G rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Hm, what DID i learn from this book?

well, first thing i can tell you is if you're looking for the dirt on the Golden Girls, you gotta look elsewhere.

then i can tell you that she's not exaggerating. she's been married 2049029042 times (i had to go back and forth to check names because i was getting them all confused) and has even more little loves here and there. i think she sounds like a sweet person, but she goes out of her way to make herself look good. i was going to count the number of times...more

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Apr 12, 2013 Michelle rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Surprisingly dark memoir. McClanahan has a very contemporary and upbeat voice which makes for wonderful storytelling; though, she does have a tendency toward the occasionally mundane or empty details or her private life, especially later in life--there's only so much to be said about gardening during your retirement. But she makes up for these brief moments of boredom when telling the outrageous and sometimes atrocious details of her private life, which often make for a far more tantalizing read...more

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Nov 30, 2012 Luanne Lusic rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Rue's book is an intimate portrayal of her life and loves. She has a very informal style that makes you feel like a friend to her and that she is speaking directly to you. What struck me most in this book was her determination and drive to succeed in her acting career. Even though at times she had to sacrifice spending time with her son and send him off to live with her parents, every chance she got, she made sure that he came back to live with her. Many of the men she was involved with or marri...more

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Jul 12, 2010 Bobby rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adultnonfiction, biography-memoirs

The Golden Girl's memoirs may lack in flow with her scattershot account, but her charm, self-deprecation, and spirited outlook more than outweigh this minor flaw. In fact, the scattershot telling is a large part of the book's charm.

You hear Rue's voice loud and clear. Reading McClanahan's book is like listening to a favorite, chatty aunt. McClanahan never takes herself too seriously and sprinkles her stories with fun Southern sayings. What a hoot!

But the experience is a tad bittersweet, as McC...more

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Jul 20, 2010 Inge rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adult

Honestly. I just want to read something I can enjoy. Something I understand. Something about someone honest and forthcoming and funny and true.
Something comfortable and lovely without being saccharine or trite.
This book made me happy and I was sad when I finished it and couldn't read it anymore.
If a woman can handle 5 marriages (several to near-sociopaths), a Tijuana abortion, breast cancer, and Bea Arthur and still manage to be funny and endearing and fascinating, well, then, hell, the rest of...more

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Oct 22, 2011 Paulene rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this book because I have long been a fan of, "The Golden Girls" however I was disappointed. This says more about my expectations than about the book itself. I couldn't help wondering what McClanahan could have become had she not bothered with these particular men. Being born in 1934, she felt pressured in the 1950s to marry because, "that's what you did". She seemed to rush from one sad disaster to the next in one headlong dependant lunge in the belief it would work next time. Sometimes i...more

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Feb 24, 2013 Alina Popkova rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Let's separate Rue the writer and Rue the person we want to judge after we read about her life. By the way, for some reason I was under the impression she was the opposite of Blanche in real life. Strange to find she... was actually exactly like Blanche. The book is called 'my first five husbands'. I don't understand why people thought she'd be dishing dirt on The Golden Girls. The book is about her selective memory - how she chose to remember her life. Some parts are weirdly detailed and some a...more

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Jul 11, 2012 Orsolya rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: library, hollywood

We all know her as Blanche Devereaux from “The Golden Girls”: the sex pot which a love for cheesecake and men. However, how well do we really know the actress Rue McClanahan? More importantly to the gossip lovers; how well do we really know about her sex/love life? Rue McClanahan opens up in “My First Five Husbands”.

God rest her soul, but unfortunately Rue McClanahan fails to initially capture the reader in early chapters of “My First Five Husbands”. Although providing a firm foundation regardi...more We all know her as Blanche Devereaux from “The Golden Girls”: the sex pot which a love for cheesecake and men. However, how well do we really know the actress Rue McClanahan? More importantly to the gossip lovers; how well do we really know about her sex/love life? Rue McClanahan opens up in “My First Five Husbands”.

God rest her soul, but unfortunately Rue McClanahan fails to initially capture the reader in early chapters of “My First Five Husbands”. Although providing a firm foundation regarding her upbringing and imposing it with her Southern charm, sensuality, and humor (McClanahan isn’t a far cry from her role as Blanche, after all); McClanahan still fails to truly provide a clear insight into her mind. Not to mention, the backdrop story is not concise and tends to read more like small, abrupt stories on characters (and there are many!) that are mentioned in a tone as if the reader should just know who they are. This causes confusion, distance, and a lack of cohesiveness in “My First Five Husbands”.

However, as the memoir continues and McClanahan begins to focus on the actual men in her life; the reader (especially females) can connect and relate to McClanahan’s experiences, as she lets some of her “guard down” and the narrative begins to flow more smoothly. Sadly though, McClanahan still doesn’t allow the reader into her head completely and therefore fails to provide an emotional connection with the reader. Her experiences are quite interesting and impressive in her nature of being naive and yet courageous/driven at the same time, which could provide an insightful and moving reading experience; but McClanahan opted to simply tell her life story versus offering her thoughts, emotions, and lessons. Simply put: “My First Five Husbands” is interesting but lacks a certain zest.

Also absent is the comedic aspect one would expect from McClanahan’s natural talents. Unlike some other memoirs where I actually found myself laughing out (including fellow Golden Girl alum Betty White); this never happened in “My First Five Husbands”. McClanahan does provide some behind the scenes looks at “All in the Family”, “Maude”, and “Golden Girls”, but she still falls short on a true, emotional opening.

The descriptions of McClanahan’s romantic escapades and husbands begin to become tedious with their similar plots and the reader begins to wonder why McClanahan never learned from her mistakes. Some readers could also become frustrated by the clarity that she wasn’t a traditional mother to her son and pursued acting, instead. Although this is subjective; I can easily see some parents becoming upset. At the same time, McClanahan never points fingers at her career, husbands, son, or herself for any of her problems/issues removing bias and any “woe is me” attitudes which offer a straight-path view of her life’s events.

The ending is rushed and would have resulted in a stronger depart if McClanahan spent more than a page describing her last (and favorite) husband (the other husbands got an entire book!). It was like a movie cut short.

“My First Five Husbands has “its moments” but overall it is much blander than expected in terms of entertainment value. An average reader would not gain much and thus, “My First Five Husbands” is only suggested for GG fans or fans of Rue, personally.
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Oct 21, 2012 Paula rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Rue McClanahan's book "My First Five Husbands ... And the Ones
Who Got Away" is a witty and open-hearted memoir of a woman pursuing her dream to become an actress experiencing the ups and downs of life along the way.
She lets us follow her from her birth in Oklahoma, through her struggles to get work as an actress and to put food on the table, through happy and not so happy to downright disastrous relationships, through her success as a golden girl, through her suffering of breast cancer to her...more

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Oct 24, 2010 Ruby Scarlett rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'd like to thank everyone who helped make this award possible. The rest of you will be in the book.
Rue McClanahan's Emmy Award Acceptance Speech, 1987

Let me preface this by saying that it's deeply satisfying to wake up to a Mooch alert - an email telling you in so many words that a book on your wishlist is now waiting for a new home. I really enjoy Bookmooch and I wish more of the books I wanted were given up by other people. I really urge you to give it a try - I got rid of titles I no longer...more I'd like to thank everyone who helped make this award possible. The rest of you will be in the book.
Rue McClanahan's Emmy Award Acceptance Speech, 1987

Let me preface this by saying that it's deeply satisfying to wake up to a Mooch alert - an email telling you in so many words that a book on your wishlist is now waiting for a new home. I really enjoy Bookmooch and I wish more of the books I wanted were given up by other people. I really urge you to give it a try - I got rid of titles I no longer cared for and I'm receiving books I'm interested in in exchange.

Rue McClanahan, as you may know, is most famous for her role as the scandalous Southern belle Blanche Devereaux in one of my favourite TV shows, The Golden Girls. She passed away last June and there's always something slightly peculiar reading someone else's life after their death. But what a life that was! I found My First Five Husbands... and the Ones Who Got Away to be a truly inspirational account of an ambitious, disarmingly funny woman who did everything from waitressing in her underwear to acting on Broadway. She met lovely people and terrible ones whom she ended up marrying but learned a lot from everyone.
The book is interesting and written in a friendly manner, which I greatly enjoyed. It's more Rue talking to a pal and exchanging gossip than Someone Famous cashing on their fame. Rue worked from day one and never stopped - she says at some point that she saw other people whose ambition in life was to marry into money but her wish had always been to earn it. Her life really deserved its own book - she accomplished so much and did got everything she wanted in the end.
I dreaded her chapter narrating her days filming The Golden Girls, I didn't want my superlative opinion of the show and its stars to be tarnished - while she reveals that the set wasn't the idyllic place I imagined it to be (somehow I thought such wonderful women with such a wonderful script could only have been best friends all along), it remains special and I can now add a very nice anecdote in my collection of Golden Girls gossip - one involving no less than The Men of Blanche's Boudoir, a scrapbook Blanche puts together with nude pics of her lovers that she offers to her housemates and which remains to this day one of my favourite scenes of the series.

I truly enjoyed this book, which was one hell of a ride. Turns out Rue wasn't very different from Blanche, though Blanche got truly lucky in her choice of men. At the beginning of the book, Rue explains that she devised a system to rate her lovers' performance in bed, ranging from A to F. I have a feeling Blanche got a life filled with As. Now let that be something to look forward to ;)

Rose: Is it possible to love two men at the same time?
Blanche (not missing a beat): Set the scene - have we been drinking?

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Aug 02, 2009 Tracey rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: nonfiction, borrowed, women, 4-stars, memoir

The Golden Girls is one of my favorite shows so I borrowed this from a friend. I read it in a weekend.

One of my favorite quotes from the book is

Eating habits are hard to change, but it can be done, and with some added exercise, you can change your weight, which matters a lot more than your age. Regular sexual activity is excellent exercise. So is lifting weights. It all depends on what's available. Dumbbells are pretty easy to come by, but since many of them are married, I suggest lifting weigh...more

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Feb 21, 2012 Vicky rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, 2012-reading-challenge, borrowed-from-library, favorites

This line right here:

"People always ask me if I'm like Blanche. And I say, 'Well, Blanche was an oversexed, self-involved, man-crazy, vain Southern Belle from Atlanta -- and I'm not from Atlanta!’” -- Rue McClanahan

That was all it took for me to read this since I'm a huge, I mean HUGE Golden Girls fan. I had always thought she played that role with a little too much familiarity! ;)

This book was a fun autobiography to read. I thought I would be so excited to get to her Golden Girls years that I w...more

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Oct 03, 2010 Rita Meade rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adult, memoir-biography

I've always half-jokingly called the character "Blanche Devereaux" a personal hero of mine. After reading this memoir, I've discovered that there's some actual merit to the claim that goes beyond my love of "The Golden Girls." Ms. McClanahan presents the story of her life in a hilarious, self-deprecating, and charmingly loquacious fashion. A veteran in the war of love and one of the most hard-working ladies on stage and television, she gives, through her stories, practical yet inspirational pers...more

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Oct 08, 2012 Cassandra rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Rue is totally sassy and charming. I can't imagine outlining all of my romantic misadventures (or even REMEMBERING all of my romantic misadventures) for the whole world to read, but she does it, complete with actual letter grades for her various lovers. She's self confident, fallible, and very endearing.

I guess the lesson that surfaces in this bio (and in many books) is that the ability to laugh at your own mistakes will make your life significantly happier.

I may have to start watching the Gold...more

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Jun 30, 2010 Emma rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: everybody

Recommended to Emma by: Monica

Shelves: autobiography, 2010

It's one of the best (if not THE best) autobiography that I have ever read. Plus it doesn't sound condescending, it's just a fellow human being talking to the reader with the good fortune that she can make you cry and laugh but most of all you go through her journey (certainly from her point of view - after all it's her autobiography)... and what a journey!
Hopefully people by reading this book will notice that she isn't just Blanche Deveraux - Blanche was just a character of the many that she ga...more

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Aug 12, 2012 Mirah W rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I absolutely love The Golden Girls, I think it's one of the greatest tv shows ever. And this book by Rue McClanahan provides some inside scoop on the life of Rue and her loves. She discusses how her feelings of love changed from one man to another and how the different times in her life affected how she developed relationships. A really quick read with some great Rue-isms. It was so interesting to be a fly on the wall, so to speak, for Rue's life.

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Jul 25, 2011 Tori added it · review of another edition

2008-I think I was expecting this book be like Blanche's autobiography...not that her and Rue are all that different! I was a bit sad that Golden Girls was only mentioned in like two chapters, this is, after all, how most people know her. Overall not a bad biography, but be aware she focuses quite a bit on her past theater career as well as her past loves. Also, towards the end she seemed to not put in as much detail about her current husband and what she's up too, which I would have been intere...more

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Sep 26, 2009 Sara rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2009-2010-school-year, memoir

Rue McClanahan, retells her life using the men who have passed through it as markers. With impeccable memory, she recounts the successes and sorrows of life as a struggling actress and single mother.
It doesn't give Golden Girls gossip (I was hoping it would) but it's an interesting look at the woman who molded the unforgettable Blanche Deveraux. Similar in nature (both are brash, humorous, and Southern), I enjoyed the book. I probably won't read it again, but it was a nice (unusually long) read...more

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Jul 16, 2011 Katie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This books reads like you're having a conversation with Rue in your living room. It was AMAZING seeing all of the things she did in her life -- from off-broadway to broadway to soap to primetime, this lady stayed BUSY!

She also had a great sense of humor with how she described the good, the bad, and DEFINITELY the ugly in her love life and relationships.

All in all, it was a fun, fast read -- definitely one I'd recommend to autobiography (and Golden Girls) lovers out there!

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May 26, 2007 Joe rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Anyone who breathes!

Rue McClanahan's life story is wonderful! I picked this book up over shear curiousity. I am an avid Golden Girls fan, and I am also familiar with some of Rue's other television work...Maude and Mama's Family. She has also appeared recently on Broadway as the horrible Madame Morrible in Wicked. I never knew that her past was sorrid and full of bi-coastal adventures. I loved her personal insights; her wisdom for the ages on love, loss, happiness, and work ethic. The girl has it goin' on! Reading w...more

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Apr 21, 2009 David Olsen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Oh...my...gawd! What a fabulous woman Ms. McClanahan is! I could read her book over and over and OVER! So completely entertaining and full of adventure, struggle and persistence, not just in her delicious career, but also in her many troubled relationships! What a tasty read and a winning lesson about life! Gays and showbiz folk will like it best!

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Mar 27, 2013 Lori rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: memoir

I am a fan of the Golden Girls. Saw this title a few years ago. Rue McClanahan.wrote and an honest memoir of her life. the title includes the first five husbands she married and divorced. I guess talking throughout her memoir about the first five spouses she was married to was okay reading. but i was way more interested in reading about her career.I wished she had talked more about the seasons on the Golden Girls. I know this is a memoir about her whole life up to about the late 1990s. she final...more

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Oct 12, 2010 Renee Yesso rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: celebrities, family, memoir, new-york, hollywood

Interesting memoir. Rue didn't always make good decisions, but at least she wrote an honest and funny book. She's not afraid to share her opinions on people or how she lived her life. It was sad reading it after she passed away, because it ends with her in such a positive and happy place in her life.

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Aug 16, 2011 Charlie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I like this book because I love Golden Girls. I don't know why, but I was under the impression that she wasn't as promiscuous in real life, but apparently I was wrong. I wasn't especially moved either way by her accounts in the book which was sort of dissapointing, but not horrible.

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Apr 14, 2011 Khryste rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was great. What an eye opener into the crazy lives that actors lead. It is both an exciting and scary life, in my opinion. If you want to know whether Rue McClanahan is like Blanche Devereaux, then this book is for you. Rue gives a great behind the scenes look at The Golden Girls. A must read for any Golden Girls fan.

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