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Facing the Music: the autobiography
Torvill and Dean, the world's most successful and popular skating couple, tell their own story, from their working-class childhoods in Nottingham to world stardom with their own multi-million dollar show. of photos, many in color.
Hardcover
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378 pages
Published
October 2nd 1995
by Simon & Schuster Ltd
(first published March 1st 1984)
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I was a dancer and choreographer for 20 years when I suddenly had to have major hip surgery. Since I knew I would never be able to really dance again, it was hard for me to watch dance. Then I saw the 1994 Olympics with the return of Torvill & Dean to amateur ice dancing competition. Seeing their brilliant rumba short program blew me away. How could they DO those moves on tiny blades on "slippy stuff". I fell in love with ice dancing and T&D. I dug up as many old videos of their routines
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It's frustrating when I read a book or watch a film that makes me actually dislike the author or filmmaker. That's the problem with autobiography: your perspective on events is so narrow that inevitably you become egotistical and defensive. Even most biographers are too in love with their subjects to portray them in a balanced light.
Another frustrating thing is when long text could have been condensed. This whole story could have been about ten times shorter or more. Although they sped through a ...more
Another frustrating thing is when long text could have been condensed. This whole story could have been about ten times shorter or more. Although they sped through a ...more
This is a very candid & honest look into their lives, their art and the world of amateur and professional skating. They had a challenge to write about movement set to music which is a pure form of art and expression is difficult enough to be translated into the spoken word, let alone put on a page, but they did a credible job and didn’t hold much back. There were particularly interesting passages from childhood stories, to how they came to be partner’s in their late teens, to their struggles
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Torvill & Dean, ten years later, and though the first five chapters recap their amateur career, the really interesting part of this book is about their "grown-up" days - touring with their own tours, with Tarasova's Russian All-Stars, with Ice Capades. There is also the story of Dean's failed marriage to Isabelle Duchesnay, and Jayne's more successful marriage to a non-skater. Finally, of course, there's the Pyrrhic victory of the 1994 Olympics at Lillehammer, where they certainly revived th
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Here is a blast from what I thought was the past! The autobio ends in the mid-90s, and I had thought their career long gone, just a gorgeous memory from the 1984 Olympics and a "they were robbed" memory from the 1994 Olympics. It turns out, the Internet tells me, that they have a "Dancing with the Stars" type of tv program in England, in which celebrities compete in "Dancing on Ice." This has been going on since 2006. So now they're 50-something and enjoying a second career. Amazing. At any rate
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I love ice-skating but I was disappointed with this book. The beginning up to the 1984 Olympics is rushed and Jayne & Chris come across as quite unlikeable.
I love ice skating and biographies but I just couldn't finish this one.
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