Article: Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W.C. Fields.

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.

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