Double Life by Alan Shayne & Norman Sunshine - copyright 2011 This hardcover book with dustjacket in very good condition - the dustjacket in very good condition with no wear - inside is in very good condition - no writing nor torn or missing pages... Excellent Addition to Your Collection!!! (see photos)...
Signed 3rd page "For Lee and Janet our best wishes Alan Shayne & Norman Sunshine"
Gay marriage is at the forefront of America's political battles.
The human story at the center of this debate is told in Double Life: A
Love Story, a dual memoir by a gay male couple in a 50 plus year
relationship. With high profiles in the entertainment, advertising and
art communities, the authors offer a virtual timeline of how gay
relationships have gained acceptance in the last half-century. At the
same time, they share inside stories from film, television and media
featuring the likes of Marlon Brando, Katharine Hepburn, Rock Hudson,
Barbra Streisand, Laurence Olivier, Truman Capote, Bette Davis, Robert
Redford, Lee Radziwill and Frances Lear.
We both grew up at a
time when homosexuality was not even spoken about, the couple writes.
There were certainly no books that could help a young person understand
that two people of the same sex could build a happy, productive and
loving life together. When we entered our 50th year, another same sex
couple told us we were an inspiration , so we began to feel we had the
responsibility to make what we ve experienced available to others. We
also wanted to show people who were not gay that our life was not unlike
theirs. We are all pretty much the same, so we deserve equal protection
under the Constitution.
Alan Shayne retired as President of
Warner Brothers Television in 1986, following a career that included
Broadway, playing opposite Lena Horne and spanned forty years. As a
leading casting director, he worked on such films as Catch 22, All the
President s Men and many others. At Warner Brothers, he shepherded such
long-running television series as Alice, Night Court and The Dukes of
Hazard.
Norman Sunshine was a successful magazine illustrator in
New York who went on to be a painter and sculptor whose works are in
museums and in important collections. In the early years of his career,
he was vice president, creative director of an advertising agency, and
coined the phrase, What Becomes a Legend Most? as well as Danskins are
not just for Dancing. He interrupted his painting career when Frances
Lear asked him to spearhead Lear s Magazine in the 1980s.
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