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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 792.7028092
EAN num: 9780345378156
ISBN number: 0345378156
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 249
Printing Date: February 09, 1994
Publishing house: Ballantine Books
Release Date: February 09, 1994
Sale Popularity Level: 888045
Studio: Ballantine Books
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Comedienne/TV star/bestselling author of Roseanne: My Life as a Woman, Arnold covers show biz, stardom, family, marriage, and more in this explosive tell-all. 2 cassettes.
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The best thing about Roseanne's book, "My Lives" is the picture on the cover!
I have always loved Roseanne because she is/was such a talented and courageous entertainer. Through her groundbreaking sitcom, Roseanne she showed the American family as it really was meant to be seen. But I also think there's a part of her that's really not all there. And, sadly she started to unravel around the time this book came out.
"My Lives" was published 14 years ago, 5 years after Roseanne's very first autobiography; the considerably less in-your-face "My Life As A Woman." But in her latest editorial debacle Roseanne lets it all hang out so to speak.
Roseanne is intent on painting a very ugly picture of her life through this book. She was the victim of incest and sexual abuse by both her mother and father. She was forced to become a hooker because her and her very first husband were living on skid row. She gave up a child that she had as a teenager. She never learned to trust men. She ate like there was no tomorrow and when gained sucess she became incredibly inebriated on her own fame.
All of this comes off as so cliche and rather sloppy. It reads like a perverse National Enquirer article. But all of that cannot compare to Roseanne's most "startling revelation." She claims that she is the victim of Disassociate Identity Disorder (in 1994 when this book was published the "disease" was called "multiple identity disorder.") Yes, that's right Roseanne claims to have hundreds of personalities living within her one body.
I can remember an interview that Roseanne once did with Arsenio. He was talking about La Toya and all of her hairball stories and Roseanne defended her saying: "I would rather believe a liar than a molester." Well I suppose anyone would. But that does not give her the right, just because she has a public voice, to go on national TV and trash people, the people who were the closest to her simply because she forgot to take her Prozac. And, when Roseanne finally got her head on straight there was never a big press conference or any media appearances to dispel these malicious lies. It's sad that truth isn't as appealing as dishonesty is.
As you probably do not know (because it was rarely reported in the MSM,) A few years after this book was published, a newly divorced (and re-married again Roseanne) has "regained her sanity." This "new" Roseanne now recants all of those hateful statements in this book. But even to call those statements hateful would be doing an injustice. What would you call someone who makes up false allegations of sexual abuse towards her parents?
Some would call this person a monster.
Some would call this person an a-ni-mal.
Some would call this person a conniving money-hungry crook.
I just think Roseanne has made some very poor decisions as far as her personal life and her professional life are concerned. She laid her life out for the entire world to see and somewhere along the way she forgot who she really was and she forgot what the truth was. I suppose it doesn't help matters that she's always been as crazy as a loon.
Geraldine Barr (Roseanne's sister,) wrote a rebuttal to this effluent, My Sister Roseanne. Unfortunately, through her many contacts and with all of the power and clout that comes with having the number one coast-to-coast television show in the Country, Roseanne was able to get the book collectively blackballed. Critics panned that book as a cry for money. These same critics didn't bat an eye when Roseanne publishes an autobiography only 5 years after her very first one.
If you're interested in learning about the real Roseanne, I recommend watching her TV show and some of her movies. I also recommend reading her very first autobiography and Geraldine's book, as well as any magazine interviews that Roseanne has done over the last 7 to 8 years (anything between 1991 and 1998 are riddled with statements that Roseanne herself now states are "untrue.") But skip this book, unless you enjoy reading about trainwrecks.
I do feel bad for Roseanne but from what I have read about her now, she is enjoying lucidity and is at peace. But more than that, I feel awful for her poor parents. I cannot think of anything worse than to have a child make up such false statements for the pure purposes of selling a book.
Where is Roseanne today?
Now going by "Roseanne Barr" once again, after marrying Ben Thomas twice and divorcing him twice Roseanne's now living happily single with her teenage son. She is currently performing in Las Vegas at the Sahara and when she's in LA or New York Roseanne enjoys stand-up from time to time. However, she has no plans of going back to series TV nor does she have any plans of writing another book. She just wants to put the past behind her and focus on the future. Roseanne is also a very ... Read More
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I read Roseanne's very first book. It was so awful, it was almost torture. This book is an improvement. Roseanne writes more lucidly the second time around. It is more biography than rambling mess, as the very first book was. She covers her personal life as well as tid bits regarding her sit com. The sit com is one area where I do believe her. She had to fight (and it wasn't pretty) for control of her own show.
I can see where many ideas for the show came from after reading her books. The problem is that the show was funny and Roseanne's life anything but funny. Roseanne Barr is nothing like Roseanne Conner. Not surprisingly, Roseanne Barr swears like a trucker. She has no filter and says anything and I mean ANYTHING that comes to mind. (I wish I could do this too, but ya just can't!). She was heavily into drugs, alcohol and even has sex with multiple guys for money. This is all while she was married with three kids. She talks about loving her kids, but was barely there to raise them. What a mess.
She also covers the fact that she had suppressed memories of her parents abusing her, mentally and sexually. She states that this is what made her act out so badly all her life and she dealt with it through multiple personalities. She provides a list of each personality's name at the end of the book.
Because her behavior has been so incredibly bizarre and over the top, it is hard to know what to believe or not. It's hard to see someone's pain as enjoyable. Like lots of people, she needed to write the book, but I'm not sure we need to read it.
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This is Roseanne's second autobiography, the one in which she alleges childhood sexual abuse by both her mother and father. She also details how her younger sister fled her parents' house due to abuse (and now denies any abuse) and how Roseanne's daughter was also abused by Roseanne's father. Roseanne claims her weight issues stem from childhood sexual abuse. In a bizarre chapter at the end, Roseanne even alludes to having multiple personality disorder, as a means of surviving abuse.
Roseanne also dishes about the formative years of her sitcom and her desperate struggle for creative control, as well as her romance, marriage, and creative partnership with Tom Arnold. She also describes in detail the infamous National Anthem debacle, from what her intentions were through the aftermath.
I don't know if I find Roseanne 100% credible. She's outrageous and unbalanced and I can't help but feel that she skewers the truth to meet her own needs. If you can get past that, this makes for an interesting read.
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I must say that I didn't exactly know what to think when I saw a book with Tom and Roseanne on the cover. But seeing as "Roseanne" is one of my favorite shows, I had to pick it up. This is Roseanne Barr-Arnold's second book; I have not yet read the very first one. The book discusses everything between the start of her stand-up act through her marriage with Tom Arnold. She has lots of fun bashing all of the people she worked with on her hit sitcom and her ex-husband, Bill Pentland, who she was married to for 16 years and had 3 children with. The thing that is ironic about this book is how Roseanne talks about how much she loves Tom Arnold, when she divorced him the same year that this book was released. The book is actually quite interesting, however. We see that Roseanne Barr and Roseanne Arnold are definetely two different people. This Roseanne is sticking with her story about her father molesting her and her sisters. (The Roseanne Barr of 2004 is now getting along with her family.) I think that this book is a little one-sided, though. Roseanne doesn't seem to think about how her children must feel during this divorce. I do recommend it for those of you intrigued by Roseanne Barr-Pentland-Arnold-Thomas's life story.
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I found this book in one of those factory second tables at the shopping centre, I thought it was a novel Roseanne had written, some cheesy romance thing but because I am such a huge fan I bought it anyway, God I loved it, So brutally honest and self examining, I loved the people she loved and hated those she hated.
Great bio, the best I ever read.
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