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Summary: This book is, in fact, MOST WORTHWHILE!
Review: I don't think anyone should pay any mind to the reviewer who said this book is worthless. I was impressed with the detail provided about Natalie's family heritage and I learned a lot about Natalie's experiences at Harvard. According to an interview I read with Mr. Dickerson, he DID request an interview with Natalie and she declined, but did not and has not complained about the publishing of this book. If she doesn't seem to have a problem, why does the negative reviewer have one? Natalie should be proud of her last name and her heritage. She is an adult, after all, and this is not an invasion of privacy. If you are interested in learning more about Natalie Portman's life, I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: A GREAT English Book Report Book
Review: I found this book to be nothing more than a high school-level book report on magazine articles and newspaper clippings. The fact that Dickerson himself admits that he hadn't really taken an interest in Natalie Portman until the year 2000 shows that he does not speak from any privileged vantage point. He is not privy to any special information about Natalie that would draw any intelligent reader's attention, nor does he offer any keen insight into things that even the most casual fan of Natalie Portman's would know through pop culture and the media. The fact that Dickerson fails to get substantial information from those closest to Natalie proves not only that he is irresponsible, but he lacks authority to speak on Ms. Portman as well.
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Summary: The queen of my heart
Review: I found this book to be very honest. Dickerson has a much better idea of who Natalie Portman really is than many journalists I've read. I just read the article on Natalie in today's USA Weekend (5/12), where the author stated that just because she had "beauty and a mind" that Harvard guys don't pursue her! I wouldn't believe that for a minute! If that was true, there must be something wrong with guys up there! Just as this book describes, Natalie is perfect in every way - she is amazingly beautiful, she's very intelligent, and she keeps all options in her life open. An angel has fallen to earth in the form of a young actress, and the disguise is slowly disappearing as her beauty is revealed to the world. The author here has done a good job in portraying Natalie from her personal side. Natalie, if you're ever in Kansas look this 23-yr.-old up!
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Summary: EXCELLENT NATALIE
Review: I THOUGHT I KNEW EVERYTHING THERE WAS TO KNOW ABOUT NATALIE. WRONG! AFTER READING THIS WELL-WRITTEN BOOK, I REALIZED HOW LITTLE I REALLY KNEW. BEST PART: HER EXPERIENCES AT HARVARD. I'VE READ A LOT ABOUT NATALIE, BUT I'VE NEVER HAD HER EXPLAINED TO ME, AS THIS BOOK DOES SO WELL. NATALIE SHOULD GIVE THE AUTHOR AN AWARD OR SOMETHING.
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Summary: Shame on you Mr. Dickerson
Review: I was really disappointed. A lot of the book is based on speculation about her background and no one knows for sure what is fact and what is fiction. The author seems to have some sort of obsession with the young lady and her sexuality and her apparent envy of another child star Britney Spears because she (Britney) became famous before her. He gives absolutely no evidence for his reasoning and it reads like a tabloid magazine, and really it's quite creepy that a grown man would dwell on it so much. He goes on to say more than once what a noble thing it has been that he has waited so long to reveal her real name, that by not doing so would go against freedom of the press, yet it's confusing to the reader because he apparently has only been aware of her for a couple of years. I literally feel guilty and sick for buying this book and supporting this guy. It's highly disrespectful to both Natalie Portman and her family.
Shame on you, Mr. Dickerson. Shame on you!
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Summary: Great Book Overall!
Review: This book is good if you know nothing about Natalie Portman, but the majority of the information in the book could easily be found in magazines or recent articles. I didn't like the way the author described each film - basically telling the reader all about the movie, the character, etc., why do that if you can rent the movie yourself? The other thing I didn't like was that he gave away her real last name. I'm sure it would be released sometime by Natalie herself, but she has kept it secret for a reason. Other than that, it's a decent read. I'm a fan of Natalie's work and it's about time someone wrote a book on her.
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Summary: About My Favorite Actress
Review: This book on Natalie Portman is AMAZING. I'm not really a book reader, but this book is making me read more and more. Thank you Natalie and thank you Mr. Dickerson for this amazing book on
Natalie portman.
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Summary: HELPFUL BUT HURTFUL!
Review: This book was great for Natalie fans and it gave a lot of nice information about the young star,but,it revealed too much of her personal life like, her real last name,love life, and everything,
which is disrespectful to her. Otherwise it was a good book!
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Summary: Truely The Queen of Hearts
Review: This is a must for Natalie Portman fans. Dickerson does a good job of showing the evolution of the beautiful Natalie Portman. He paints an interesting and engaging portrait of one of Hollywood's fastest rising stars. The book takes readers on an interesting and inspiring tour of the life of Miss Portman.
This book showcases her intelligence and her beauty. The book also provides an interesting look at her heritage and how that heritage has helped shape her into the wonderful young woman she is. I found this to be a very enjoyable read. You may be asking then why do you give it four stars. The reason behind that is that this book is entirely too short(under two hundred pages, and with large type). I recommend this book to anyone who has ever wanted to know a bit more about this wonderful young lady. Four stars.
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Summary: Disrespectful, Speculative Rubbish by a Paparazzi with a Pen
Review: Yet again, this work is an excellent example of how ultimately fruitless it is to attempt to write a biography of someone without having access to that person. In this rather tendentious, seedy little biography, Dickerson has essentially strung together snippets from the public interviews conducted by Ms. Portman over the past several years in magazine features and on TV talk shows, and has attempted to concoct a "biography" based on this meagre store of real information. As a result, the book abounds with "it is believed that", and "many consider that" ... because ultimately there are many things that Dickerson writes in the book without knowing whether or not they are true. Speculation begins with the details of Ms. Portman's family background, and continues at several points along the way, because without having access to Ms. Portman and her devoted parents, Dickerson has no other alternative in order to write a biograhphy that is in any way interesting for the reader (whether true or not). The reader therefore comes away with a speculative vision of the person that Natalie Portman is -- and certainly none the wiser as to who that person, in fact, really is. Surely Ms. Portman must be laughing at times when she reads Dickerson's fatally flawed "biography"; in fact, it seems, based on the voluminous interviews that appeared in the press as part of the media campaign for "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones", that she is almost deliberately slipping in this or that true biographical detail into her conversations with the press to subtlely (and with some wit) undermine the more egregious of Dickerson's speculations. But perhaps the most troubling thing about this book is that it categorically refuses to respect Ms. Portman's right to maintain some semblance of privacy. Surely, a celebrity of her level has a more limited expectation of privacy than the average citizen, but her well-known choice to act under a pseudonym -- out of respect for her own privacy as well as that of her parents -- has been completely disrespected by Dickerson, much to his discredit. Dickerson is entitled to disagree with Ms. Portman's decision in this regard, but his own decision to completely disrespect her own privacy is regrettable and credibility-shattering, as this happens at the very outset of the book. In all, this is an example of a papparazzi with a pen -- not a biographer in any meaningful sense of the word. Save your money, and read Ms. Portman's interviews in the media and watch her films ... you'll surely have a better sense of her person than you will by reading this speculative drivel.
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