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Guillaume - A Life (Paperback)
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Guillaume - A Life (Paperback)
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Guillaume: A Life is the autobiography of esteemed Broadway,
Hollywood, and television star Robert Guillaume. Ten months after
suffering a stroke, Guillaume-perhaps best known as television's
Benson-began this autobiography with award-winning author and
collaborator David Ritz. The book goes beyond the recounting of a
long and successful career to examine the forces that shaped the
man: family, religion, race, and class. Startlingly candid and
disarmingly self-aware, Guillaume seeks to know and understand
himself, his treatment of the women in his life, and the choices he
made along the way. He pursues the truth, however painful it may
be, says Ritz, guided by two questions, "Who the hell am I?" and
"What made me do what I did?" Born in St. Louis in 1927 to a young,
abused, unstable mother, and reared by a strong, hardworking
grandmother, Robert Guillaume managed to move from the poverty and
adversity of his youth to a rich, full career as an actor and a
singer. Fierce determination and sharp focus enabled this man born
to hardship and racial discrimination to study, learn, cultivate
his natural talents, and succeed at the performance career he
pursued with a vengeance. Guillaume first performed in the strict
Catholic schools and churches to which his grandmother, who
understood that education would be the key to any success he might
achieve, sent him. There his love of classical music was nurtured,
and he was encouraged to perform. From a child longing for his
mother's love to a man unsure of the meaning of love for many of
the women in his life, from a young performer struggling to succeed
on Broadway and in Hollywood to a grief-stricken father watching
his son die of AIDS, Robert Guillaume tells what it was like to
realize celebrity and what he sacrificed in the process. Readers
will savor the success story of this artist who achieved great
recognition and fame, but who never lost sight of his beginnings.
Appealing to all audiences, Guillaume is a revealing and poignant
autobiography of an extraordinary and distinguished American
thespian.
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