NATALIE WOOD : A LIFE
Book ID/图书代码： 12800704B06131
English Summary/英文概要： She spent her life in the movies. Her childhood is still there to see in Miracle on 34th Street. Her adolescence in Rebel Without a Cause. Her coming of age? Still playing in Splendor in the Grass and West Side Story and countless other hit movies. From the moment Natalie Wood made her debut in 1946, playing Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles’s ward in Tomorrow Is Forever at the age of seven, to her shocking, untimely death in 1981, the decades of her life are marked by movies that–for their moments–summed up America’s dreams.
Now the acclaimed novelist, biographer, critic and screenwriter Gavin Lambert, whose twenty-year friendship with Natalie Wood began when she wanted to star in the movie adaptation of his novel Inside Daisy Clover, tells her extraordinary story. He writes about her parents, uncovering secrets that Natalie either didn’t know or kept hidden from those closest to her. Here is the young Natalie, from her years as a child actress at the mercy of a driven, controlling stage mother (“Make Mr. Pichel love you,” she whispered to the five-year-old Natalie before depositing her unexpectedly on the director’s lap), to her awkward adolescence when, suddenly too old for kiddie roles, she was shunted aside, just another freshman at Van Nuys High. Lambert shows us the glamorous movie star in her twenties—All the Fine Young Cannibals, Gypsy and Love with the Proper Stranger. He writes about her marriages, her divorces, her love affairs, her suicide attempt at twenty-six, the birth of her children, her friendships, her struggles as an actress and her tragic death by drowning (she was always terrified of water) at forty-three. For the first time, everyone who knew Natalie Wood speaks freely–including her husbands Robert Wagner and Richard Gregson, famously private people like Warren Beatty, intimate friends such as playwright Mart Crowley, directors Robert Mulligan and Paul Mazursky, and Leslie Caron, each of whom told the author stories about this remarkable woman who was both life-loving and filled with despair.
What we couldn’t know–have never been told before–Lambert perceptively uncovers. His book provides the richest portrait we have had of Natalie Wood.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 娜塔丽·伍德（Natalie Wood）曾是美国好莱坞一位超级明星，20年前她43岁时不幸失足落水身亡，但她的死至今未能得到完全解释，成为一个不解之谜。与她的死相比，伍德从一个众人喜爱的小童星转变成为一名好莱坞银幕偶像的一生竟显得黯然失色。
伍德原名娜塔莉亚·尼古拉夫娜·扎克哈仁科，她的父母是俄罗斯移民，她是三个女儿之一。她的母亲玛丽亚·格丁被一位吉卜赛占卜者的预言迷住了心窍，把她推入了影视界。这位占卜者预言这个叫娜塔莎的小女孩将会成为全世界著名的大美人。不过这个吉卜赛人也同时警告格丁要“小心黑水”，他预言娜塔莎会被水淹死，并且在这对母女的余生中这种被慢慢灌输的恐惧感会一直萦绕不去。
兰伯特的书中提到了使伍德成为银幕女神的轰动之作——1955年的《无因的反抗》。与民间流传的说法相反，兰伯特认为，并不是这部电影促成了伍德和合作男演员詹姆斯·迪恩相恋。“像很多人一样，伍德也无法抵挡迪恩的魅力，他们互相爱着对方。”
上世纪60年代初，兰伯特写了电影《春花秋月奈何天》的剧本，讲述一个30年代好莱坞女星成名的故事。伍德读了剧本后打电话给兰伯特说：“我死也要得到这个角色。”兰伯特也确认了伍德为这个角色的第一人选。兰伯特在著书的过程中亦得到了伍德丈夫瓦格纳的大力协作。 伍德和瓦格纳于1957年结婚，1963年离婚。自从伍德5岁初登银幕，她的母亲就牢牢掌握着她的事业、她的个人生活、尤其是她赚来的钱。母亲的专制和剥削给刚刚得到爱情滋润的伍德当头一棒，伍德精神恍惚，并接受心理咨询。瓦格纳试图反抗，他想逃避这段纠缠以自省。冲突最终导致了他们的离婚。他们离婚后，瓦格纳再娶，伍德再嫁。但伍德与瓦格纳每每在社交场合碰头，之间“电流”却更为强烈。有一次，他们各自独身去参加一个派对。那恰巧是个雨夜，他们促膝交谈了一夜，然后瓦格纳送伍德回家,于是他俩于1972年复婚了。瓦格纳本人还没有读过《娜塔丽·伍德的生活》这本书，因为他在情感上还没有准备好。兰伯特解释道：“我知道，伍德的死是他一生中最可怕的创伤。他说可能有让他停止想念她的方法，我想他一直在寻找。”
这部自传按时间顺序讲述了娜塔丽·伍德生命中的重要事件：她的俄罗斯血统；她好赌的母亲；她的童星经历；她与丹尼斯·霍珀、沃伦·比提等人的风流韵事；与瓦格纳戏剧化的结婚、离婚、复婚的过程；她的悲剧离世……
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About the Author/作者介绍： 今年79岁的加文·兰伯特出生于英国并在那儿读书，他原来是个英国影评人，上世纪50年代来到好莱坞，成为导演尼古拉斯·雷（《无因的反抗》导演）的助手，随即与影星娜塔丽·伍德相识。和伍德保持了16年友情的兰伯特的新书《娜塔丽·伍德的生活》近日出版，讲述了伍德传奇的一生，“娜塔丽的死太可怕了，很少有人将伍德视为一个人或一个演员来悼念。人们好奇的是究竟发生了什么事？她和沃尔肯之间有情况吗？”这就是他写这本书的原因。” 加文·兰伯特现居住在洛杉矶。
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