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authors@mit presents
Edward Baron Turk
speaking about his new book

Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald 

Thursday, February 11  5:30 p.m.
MIT Humanities Library
Hayden Memorial Library, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

"In a dazzling blend of entertainment and scholarship, America's top
pre-war musical film star is convincingly rethroned as an exemplary part
of our American heritage....Turk convinces readers of MacDonald�s status
as a democratizing force for music and as a commando of sophisticated
eroticism."  
-- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

from the Boston Globe's review of Hollywood Diva:

"Turk writes generously about the inclusivity of MacDonald's art and
elegiacally about the idealism and commitment to values her life andwork
represented. ''Hollywood Diva'' is one of the most thorough, intelligent,
and sensitive books ever written about a movie star, because it's about a
lot more than Jeanette MacDonald." �- Richard Dyer 

read the review in its entirety at:
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/033/living/A_diva_whose_adoration_was_deserved+.shtml

Edward Baron Turk is Professor of French and Film Studies at MIT and
author of the prize-winning Child of Paradise: Marcel Carn� and the Golden
Age of French Cinema.

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