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Article: Stars' memoirs: center stage: reminiscences by Carol Burnett, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., and Roy Rogers' daughter elicit nostalgia, tears, and laughter.(Book Review)
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- The Saturday Evening Post
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- January 1, 2004
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Cowboy Princess Life with My Parents Roy Rogers and Dale Evans by Cheryl Rogers-Barnett & Frank Thompson, 224 pages, Taylor Trade Publishing, $24.95
Cheryl Rogers-Barnett learned at an early age how important first impressions can be. She was just six weeks old in a room filled with orphaned infants at a Dallas foundling home when a young movie star named Roy Rogers came through wiggling his fingers and making laces at each baby. All of them cried except for one--Barnett. She reached up, grabbed his finger, and cooed. That's how she came to be the first child of America's most famous Western couple. She tells their intimate, happy, and heartbreaking story in her ...