Lana wood biography book

I remember hearing about Natalie Wood's death, but can't say that I really knew who she was before then, although as a child I saw West Side Story. I had certainly not heard of her sister.

This book isn't just about Natalie--there is a lot of memoir and biography about Lana as well--her career, her marriages, her other things in her life. It's more about both of them. Parts of it are interesting, but, frankly, I found a lot of this boring as well as tragic. Their mother was a piece of work--the epitome of the pushy stage mother. The two women grew up in a dysfunctional family unit and, apparently, for Natalie, who became a star as a child and stayed that way through her formative years, it became her identity, because even though she died a very wealthy woman, she was still trying to get back to being a big star, or so the story goes (not a spoiler here, since her death was well publicized and remains a mystery to this day). I did lose respect for a few actor while reading this book.

I have to say that I far prefer the biographies that are about a lot more than just sex, betrayal, soap opera style lives and I know that not all actors live those kinds of lives. But mainly, I just don't think that Lana Wood is a brilliant biographer even if she has

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