The Tony award-winning Broadway dancer and choreographer shares his memoirs of his entertainment career, from his childhood in Texas to his rise to stardom in such hits as "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" and "My One and Only"
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In Footnotes*, using sharp-witted short takes - sometimes funny, always revealing, often sexy, and frequently deeply moving - Tommy Tune shares the memories of a remarkable life, from his coming of age in Texas to Broadway stardom.His book is deeply personal, an amazingly frank story about the trials, the tribulations, the triumphs, and the tragedies of a performer's life, full of vivid anecdotes about such major theatrical figures as Carol Channing, Michael Bennett, Twiggy, Laurence Olivier, Agnes de Mille, Ruth Gordon, his idol Fred Astaire (whose awed comment to T.T. after watching him perform was, "You're a tall son-of-a-bitch!"), Gene Kelly (whose brief and to-the-point direction to T.T. while filming Hello, Dolly! was, "Tommy, dance better."), Josephine Baker, and many, many more...
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