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May 21, 2016mswrite rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Self-serving but not completely uninteresting. Wagner tries hard to put out there, among other things, what he obviously hopes will be the final, for-the-record account of his late wife Natalie Wood's tragic 1981 death by drowning. Unfortunately his assertions don't match the evidence and witness accounts of that fateful night. (Check out "Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour" by Marti Rulli and/or "Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood" by Suzanne Finstad.) This would surprise no one who knows a bit more about Mr. Wagner's personal life than he would wish revealed, in common no doubt with many actors of his generation (and certainly the generation of men and women he venerates). The real story of Robert J. Wagner, his "colorful" Hollywood years, and the dark events that precipitated his wife's death, will have to be told by someone else and likely only after Mr. Wagner has passed on. In the meantime, if you are an RW fan and prefer your Hollywood memoirs heavily sanitized, this is the tome for you.