From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley
A Nonfiction, Biography, Media Tie In book. In those days, men proved their strength and manliness by being well mannered, helpful, and...
In the forty-year history of Star Trek®, none of the television show's actors are more beloved than DeForest Kelley. His portrayal of Leonard "Bones" McCoy, the southern physician aboard the Starship Enterprise™, brought an unaffected humanity to the groundbreaking space frontier series. Jackson DeForest Kelley came of age in Depression-era Georgia. He was raised on the sawdust trail, a preacher's kid steeped in his father's literal faith and judgment. But De's natural artistic gifts called him to a...
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In those days, men proved their strength and manliness by being well mannered, helpful, and gentle. Just how gentle they could be under trying circumstances, how civilised they could be in a harsh world, that was the measure of a man. Terry Lee Rioux, From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley // Kelley read every medical article he could find in papers and magazines. He was hungry to understand what McCoy was doing, especially because of his fans. Again and again, he received letters from young people declaring their intentions to go to medical school or into medical research or Terry Lee Rioux, From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek's Dr. McCoy // But suddenly, he was firmly resolved about declining the UCLA alternative. A little while before, there had been a storm of controversy about Mickey Mantle and the kind of priority treatment he had received. DeForest suspected he was getting the celebrity treatment, that he might in effect take someone elses opportunity to live longer. In the end, he refused all treatment short of the medication designed to slow the growth of his cancer and the drugs for the pain. Terry Lee Rioux, From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek's...
This book was so bad I really don't know where to start... I'll just make a list:1) The author didn't interview any of Kelley's colleagues (no Star Trek co-stars, not any of the people he worked with on other series or in the numerous movies he made). 2) Instead, she inteviewed his mailman. DeForest Kelley got mail - how exiting.3)... I like biographies and this was nicely done -- there was quite a career before Star Trek but it did take a while to "arrive." I do like that he was married to one wife and for decades. He seemed balanced compared to so many others. I had some issues with the way this book was written--it was like a really long magazine article, rather than a book. Also, there were some typos the editors should be ashamed of missing. Still, the subject of the biography was an amazing enough person that I stayed interested anyway. What a guy--he really was a wonderful person, and...
