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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Perdido by Jill Robinson Perdido by Jill Robinson. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 660073f8bf5d4ab5 • Your IP : 116.202.236.252 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. “Robinson is the Whitman of Sunset Boulevard.” The daughter of MGM's former executive, Dore Schary, tells what it was like to grow up in Hollywood during the Golden Age. Featuring cameos by Howard Hughes, "Lady Jane" Fonda, Richard Burton, young Senator Kennedy, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Loretta Young, Adlai Stevenson, Sinclair Lewis, Van Johnson, Cary Grant, Humprey Bogart and many more! “Still the definitive account of a certain kind of Hollywood childhood.” (Vanity Fair) Bed/Time/Story. “I stayed up all night reading it, and its ultimate mood of sweet, almost painful happiness stayed with me for days. It is about two people whose love for each other slowly conquered their hatred for themselves; quite literally it is about the lifesaving and healing power of love. “Bed/Time/Story” has all the captivating power of a classic . one to read and reread.” (Annie Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review) Perdido. “As readers of her harrowing Bed/Time/Story are well aware, Jill Robinson knows how to tell us terrible things in a funny tone of voice. A remarkable, heartbreaking novel . just as impressive as the writing in Perdido is the artfulness over the long haul of a novel. How to convey brilliance? I don’t know, but Jill Robinson does.” (John Leonard, New York Times) “ Jill Robinson has a knack for the beautifully constructed sentence. She propelled me through the world of power and privilege, Hollywood style, with the total assurance of one who has been there herself. ” Featured In. The New York Times The Washington Post Vanity Fair Vogue The Chicago Tribune. ROBINSON, Jill 1936- PERSONAL: Born May 30, 1936, in Los AngelesCA; daughter of Dore (a playwright, director, and film producer) and Miriam (a painter; maiden name, Svet) Schary; married Jon Zimmer (a stockbroker), January 8, 1956 (divorced, 1966); married Jeremiah Robinson (a computer analyst), April 7, 1968 (divorced, 1977); married Stuart Shaw (a consultant and writer), June 21, 1980; children: Jeremy Zimmer, Johanna Schary Robinson. Education: Attended Stanford University, 1954-55. Politics: "Left-wing eclectic." Religion: Jewish. ADDRESSES: Home— 6 Willow Rd., Weston, CT 06883. Agent— Lynn Nesbit, Janklow & Nesbit Assoc., 445 Park Ave., New York, NY 10022. CAREER: Writer. Foote, Cone & Belding, Los Angeles, CA, advertising copywriter, 1956-57; free-lance journalist, 1964—; freelance book reviewer, 1973—. Host of "The Jill Schary Show" on KLAC-Radio in Los Angeles, 1966-68. Writing teacher at Woman-school in New York, NY 1975-77. WRITINGS: (Under name Jill Schary Zimmer) With a Cast of Thousands: A Hollywood Childhood (autobiographical), Stein & Day, 1963. (Under name Jill Schary) Thanks for the Rubies, Now Please Pass the Moon, Dial, 1972. Bed/Time/Story (autobiographical), Random House, 1974; Perdido (novel), Knopf (New York, NY), 1978. Doctor Rocksinger and the Age of Longing (novel), Knopf (New York, NY), 1981. Star Country, Fawcett Columbine (New York), 1996. Past Forgetting: My Memory Lost and Found, Cliff Street Books (New York, NY), 1999. (With Stuart Shaw) Falling in Love when You Thought You Were Through, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2002. Contributor to periodicals, including Cosmopolitan, Vogue, House and Garden, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Soho Weekly News, Chicago Tribune, and Village Voice . WORK IN PROGRESS: A screenplay of Falling in Love and a book about the life of a film distributor. SIDELIGHTS: Jill Robinson is the author of novels and personal memoirs filled with many of Hollywood's classic royalty. Although two of her memoirs focus on her marriages, her most compelling personal story may be Past Forgetting, in which she details her true-life experience with amnesia. Writing in Pif magazine, Emily Banner noted that "Robinson mounts a fascinating and thought-provoking investigation into just what role memory plays in making us who we are." Robinson's first book, With a Cast of Thousands, focuses on her childhood in Hollywood as the daughter of Dore Schary, the head of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Robinson relates anecdotes about personalities such as John F. Kennedy, Loretta Young, Adlai Stevenson, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and Humphrey Bogart. C. P. Collier of Best Sellers commented that With a Cast of Thousands "could easily have become over-the-backyard-fence gossip, but even the most barbed. observations, while sometimes hilariously perceptive, are devoid of maliciousness." Book Week 's Joe Hyams similarly noted that Robinson tells "with astonishing frankness stories about her schoolmates, the multi- parented children of Hollywood's famous folk." He continued, however, that "the reader is never embarrassed for the people she so hilariously dissects, analyzes and pins down on paper with needle-sharp words." Bed/Time/Story also met with a favorable reception. The book details the story of Robinson's second marriage to Jeremiah Robinson. "It is about two people whose love for each other slowly conquered their hatred for themselves," explained Annie Gottlieb in the New York Times Book Review . "It is, quite literally, about the lifesaving and healing power of love." With her husband's help, Robinson quit drinking and taking speed, acquired a good job, and began to piece her life together again. Gottlieb further stated: "Robinson portrays herself, with candor and humor, as having been so anxious to please, so terrified of rejection, so padded and propped by drugs, that she had no idea what she wanted or felt. The book tells about her discovery of herself, not as is currently fashionable, through lonely search, but through the unexpected, ferocious strength of her feeling for another." Nation 's Nancy Lynn Schwartz contended that " Bed/Time/Story . [is] a beautifully written book which forces the reader to care about the characters and their fate." Robinson's next book, Perdido, is about teenager Susanna Howard, the granddaughter of a Hollywood pioneer who founded his own film studios. Susanna narrates this 1950's Hollywood story with a backdrop that includes the Cold War, blacklisting, and the rise of television. Tinged with an "epic, rather tragic flavor," as Schwartz described it, Perdido tells of things lost or soon to be lost. The heroine searches for her father, who left when she was still an infant. She is unhappy with her remote mother and stepfather and longs for the love of her missing parent. Constantly comparing real life to life in the movies, Susanna speculates that her grandfather "invented the happy American family and put it into the movies to drive everyone crazy." Robinson wrote two more novels, Doctor Rocksinger and the Age of Longing and Star Country, in which she tells the tale of the daughter of an old Hollywood family trying to buy back a studio that her family once ran. Joanne Wilkinson in Booklist said that in Star Country Robinson managed "to communicate her deep love for L.A." despite a plot that was "overwrought." Wilkinson also noted that "Robinson . delivers the goods for fans of flashy melodrama." Robinson returned to her forte with the memoir Past Forgetting: My Memory Lost and Found. This time, Robinson had a real-life plot device right out of the movies. After suffering a massive seizure from undiagnosed epilepsy, she wakes up in a hospital with amnesia. Robinson does not even recognize her husband dutifully sitting at her bedside. In the book Robinson recounts the many episodes involved as she recovers. At first she slowly regains pieces of her memory, with her childhood life in 1944 Los Angeles coming back the clearest. She still does not remember that her parents are dead, however, or that the children she remembers have grown. Nevertheless she uses clues from these memories and from photos to start piecing her life together. In one instance she calls up an old childhood friend from grade school to see if he remembers her. The friend, actor Robert Redford, does remember her, and the two meet to reminisce about childhood. Eventually Robinson returns to writing, a task doctors never thought she would perform again. In Booklist, reviewer Marlene Chamberlain said that "Robinson provides a colorful, sometimes frightening roadmap of her efforts" and called the book "a particularly moving account." A contributor to Publishers Weekly called the tale "an unflinching account of amnesia and the terror of being a writer without memory." And Jonathen Lethem in a review for Salon.com called it "a gemlike, seductively readable and quietly moving memoir." Robinson also teamed up with her husband Stuart Shaw to write a dual memoir, in which the husband and wife team tell of their meeting and finding love when they thought romance was gone forever from their lives. In the book, the authors employ the "his" and "her" points of view. Although some reviewers found the story dull, Melissa Hirschl, writing for Wrangler News in Tempe, Arizona, called it a "compelling" book that was "candid and insightful." "I'm most unhappy when I'm not working," Robinson told Hirschl.