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Title: Call Me Lumpy: My Leave It to Beaver Days and Other Wild Hollywood Life by Frank Bank, Gib Twyman, Jerry Mathers, Brad Breon ISBN: 1886110298 Publisher: Addax Pub Group Pub. Date: December, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.4
Rating: 1
Summary: Beaver-Lovers Beware
Comment: I only gave this one star because [Amazon.com's] format doesn't allow for zero stars. Frank Bank is like one of those irritating guys you meet at airport bars when your flight is delayed: on his sixth Scotch-rocks, won't shut up. Every topic that comes up he was there, he had the first one, everybody copied him, he had the best, the biggest, the coolest. What's saddest about this exercise in mind-numbing ego is that Bank apparently doesn't realize that the only thing interesting about him is his involvement in "Leave it to Beaver," to which he devotes very few pages and about which he gives absolutely no insight. He doesn't even get the details right in what little he says about the series: Wally and the Beaver did not go apologize to Mr. Rutherford after putting barrel hoops in his driveway, Ward (in a scene that takes place off camera) worked things out with Rutherford, which is the whole point of the show (since it was Ward who gave them the barrel hoop idea in the first place). But of course, accuracy is not anything Bank cares about, what matters to him is that this was the first episode in which Frank Bank appeared (one wonders if he ever bothered to read the rest of the script). Although Bank had a co-writer, Gib Twyman, "an award winning former sportswriter," this is possibly the worst written book I've ever read. There are no paragraphs, just short, repetitive, jargon-filled sentences (fills more pages that way, I guess). Jerry Mathers' book ("And Jerry Mathers as the Beaver") may not have been any work of art, but at least he respected what brought readers to the book. Bank does not. It's no surprise when, in a late chapter, he reveals that he's the President of the alumni organization of his high school social club, The Knights (the coolest guys on campus, of course). Bank -- emotionally and perceptually -- is still in high school. Don't waste your time or money on this flatulent, boring piece of self-inflation.
Rating: 1
Summary: Call me ...
Comment: This book has little to do with the Leave it to Beaver show. It was written for [fools] by a [fool]. After reading a few chapters of teeny bopper prose, I could go no further...
Rating: 4
Summary: This is a funny read from a "tell-it-like-it-is" guy!
Comment: Oh, this is no War and Peace, but it is an interesting read. Written as if Frank "Lumpy" is speaking directly to you. You will laugh out loud as he gives you details of his coming-of-age years in California and how he kept his head screwed on straight to become a success in the financial world as an adult, unlike so many other child stars from his era and before. I loved his sense of humor and knack for story telling, it was almost like having a long conversation with the author, except you weren't able to get in a word edgewise! Some of it, if you can believe it, may shock you. He has alot of nice things to say about his peers from "Leave It To Beaver", too. Must have been a happy set to come to work to. Imagine being on TV in the fifties and sixties and rubbing elbows with some of the rich and famous....well, Lumpy did and he gives us a little insight into what it was like. Thanks, Frank.
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Title: And Jerry Mathers As "the Beaver" by Jerry Mathers, Herb Fagen ISBN: 0425163709 Publisher: Boulevard (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: World According to Beaver by Applebaum ISBN: 1575000520 Publisher: TV Books Inc Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Beaver Papers: The Story of the Lost Season by Will Jacobs, Gerard Jones ISBN: 0517549913 Publisher: Crown Pub Pub. Date: December, 1984 List Price(USD): $1.00 |
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Title: The Other Side of Ethel Mertz: The Life Story of Vivian Vance by Frank Castelluccio, Alvin Walker, Robert Osborne ISBN: 0425176096 Publisher: Boulevard (Mass Market) Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Mayberry 101: Behind the Scenes of a TV Classic by Neal Brower ISBN: 0895872188 Publisher: John F Blair Pub Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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