Deep in the Heart of Texas

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Summary: Reflections of a "Deep in the heart of Texas" reader
Review: Forget the sarcasm in the other review. This is actually a very poignant and timely book that exposes how exploitive, greedy, manipulative and cold the dark side of American culture really is. The gals in this book go through a significant amount of hardship - emotional and mental pressure, ruthless mind games, blows to their self-esteem, missed opportunities - for the "honor" of being the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. The things the team manager and show business subjected these gals to is both surprising and amazing.
It's also about how these sisters' devotion to each other, their friendships on the squad and their own sense of personal character allowed them to carry on through all that to become successful and content in their lives. That point can be inspirational - even when caught in the nasty gears of pop culture America and its want to exploit a pretty face for its own gain, they were still able stand tall at the end of the day and shake it off.
This is a worthwhile book to read, if you can find it. It's timely and interesting even today, and I'd suggest it to anyone who'd want to see what the inside of show business can really be like: a far cry from the glitz and glamor the industry would have you believe it to be.

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Summary: Light and Fluffy
Review: If you enjoy grocery store tabloids then this book might be for you. Or if you live in Texas and experienced any of the subject matter then it might hold your attention. However compared to great books it just can't be ranked any higher than the one star I give it. It is reassuring to know that these girls managed to have REAL lives eventually.

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Summary: Indispensible Component Of A Literature Collection
Review: This stupendous book is vital to the collection of anyone who appreciates great literature and considers himself a bibliophile. A collaboration by the Scholz sisters -- Suzette, Stephanie and Sheri -- this gripping non-fiction account reads like a Pulitzer-winning novel. Consider this excerpt:

"Johnny picked Loni up in a white stretch Cadillac wearing a coyote fur coat. He had on cream-colored, snakeskin boots and there were rings on all his fingers. Crowning him was a brown suede cowboy hat with a falcon feather in the band. When she opened the door, Loni went into shock."

This was from the chapter discussing the ethics of the Bikini tests, the first hydrogen bomb trials in the South Pacific, and included some superlative speculation about reconciliation of quantum mechanics with the unified field theory. In another chapter, we find:

"One morning, Greg called Zee. 'I'll pick you up in ten minutes. Meet me out in front of your apartment.' 'Where we going?' 'Shopping.' " There ensued a trip to Neiman Marcus in Dallas, and a luncheon wherein several solutions to the Middle East difficulties were proposed, examined, dissected and evaluated, and afterward they tried on swimsuits.

The girls were unique in their associations with major world figures, and they were not shy with their opinions. Criticism of Jane Seymour and Morgan Fairchild, for example, was profoundly stunning: Seymour was "rather aloof" -- and of Morgan, they wrote, "I had never seen so many layers of heavily aplied makeup in my life. It looked as though it would have taken a chisel to get it off."

Personally, I almost wept when I read their observation, "Football is a wonderful game, with the action and excitement and the uniforms and all." This not the sort of thinking that manifests itself in ordinary people, and the Scholz sisters were anything but.

Deep in the Heart is a must-read for anyone striving to become a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader, a gloves-off report revealing that it's not all glitter and mascara. But these women prevailed, nay excelled, and the world is a better place for their efforts. Buy this book TODAY !