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Article: Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W.C. Fields.
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- The World and I
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- May 1, 1998
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MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE The Life and Times of W.C. Fields Simon Louvish New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997 564 pp., $29.95
Show-business people live imaginary live to satisfy their own and their public's expectations.
Like numerous other luminaries from the movies and show business--Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles come to mind--W.C. Fields was a prodigious liar, constructing a public persona and legend (or, more accurately in Fields' case, a series of them) considerably different from the actual person. Simon Louvish's notable new biography of Fields, Man on the Flying Trapeze, attempts to uncover and retrieve the true Fields.
As Louvish says: ...
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