Zero Tollerance: An Intimate Memoir by the Man Who Revolutionized Figure Skating
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (815 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0771023359 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Five Stars Patrick O'Connor Fantastic book. Toller Cranston is living in his own little dream world. I used to get the Canadian channel CBC on my cable lineup. From 1987 to 1990 I used to watch the World Figure Skating Championships. I always wanted to wring the neck of the commenator they had. He definitely gave me the impression that he was impressed with himself and liked to hear himself talk. He was so pompous and arrogant I wanted to reach through my TV and g. A Customer said a strange book about a completely self-absorbed man. This book is not badly written, it flows along and produces a vivid picture of some of his experiences on tour in Berlin, Paris, Bejiing, Haiti, and Sao Paulo. When he wants to be, Mr. Cranston is a good storyteller.Unfortunately, Mr. Cranston has chosen to run a thread through out the book that is not unlike a therapy session describing his torment. He tells of hi
There are vignettes here of his encounters with the rich and famous from Leonard Bernstein to Pierre Cardin and of his life among Europe’s aristocrats and bohemians. This book tells the story of his life after those fateful games at Innsbruck.The rise and fall of Toller’s first professional ice show is described in soul-searing detail. But the hard times have taken their toll. Toller Cranston is: six-time Canadian figure-skating champion, celebrity, costume designer, artist extraordinaire, broadcaster, choreographer of skating routines, raconteur, bon vivant, coach, world traveller, art collector, legend, and enigma. But even in the blackest hours, Toller’s humour and creative powers never deserted him.This generously illustrated book is an extraordinary self-portrait written by a uniquely gifted individual. In the early 1990s a combination of circumstances, including a disastrous professional association with out-of-control American skater Christopher Bowman and a lawsuit that dragged on
“An edgy, humorous look into the self-absorbed world of figure skating.”–EdmontonSun“Insightful, blunt and often refreshing, and just as often overstated.…This dishy, who-was-there-and-what-he-wore memoir does, in fact, reveal much about the man behind the dramas.”–EdmontonJournal“A chatty, gossipy, hilarious, insightful, silly and sobering autobiography.”–Globe and Mail“Bold, brazen and totally unabashed.”–London Free Press