Life Is Not a Rehearsal: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (935 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 057119933X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 298 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A popular conservative radio talk-show host in Boston, who created a sensation when he revealed his homosexuality and his infection with HIV, reflects on his life, mortality, friends, family, romance, and politics.
Contradiction in Terns: A Conservative Gay Man / Personality David Brudnoy has been a fixture on Boston radio for years. As host of an evening talk show on regional power-house, WBZ Radio, he is the atypical talk-show host. Very opinionated but always polite and respectful to those with whom he disagrees. A libertarian in a town noted for being ulra-liberal. And gay. Dr. David Brudnoy is an intellectual giant; no one disputes this. His politics run a little to the right of Ronald Reagan, Jesse Helms, and other noted conservatives. When he collapsed and nearly died of complications of AIDS severa. Fine writing on a difficult subject A Customer Brudnoy is characteristically frank and open in the memior, though it will appeal to only those with an interest in him or his lifestyle already.. "AWESOME" according to A Customer. Brudnoy does an FABULOUS job dealing with a touchy subject. Other have said it is "disjointed," but that is Brudnoy's style. 5-stars, David!
. Although there was great local media frenzy, and he received 17,000 letters from his fans, Brudnoy expresses distaste at becoming an AIDS poster boy. Brudnoy was 54 years old when he suffered his first HIV attack, which finally caused him to reveal his condition. From Publishers Weekly The reader is as relieved as Brudnoy when at last, on page 73, the then-21-year-old, relentlessly randy, homosexual, Yale junior is delivered of his virginity. With awesome self-commemoration and graphic sexuality, this Boston talk-show host lets it all hang out here: his heavy use of psychedelics as a young man; alcohol abuse; "wild sex with improper strangers," which on a couple of occasions turned violent when Brudnoy picked up psychotics; three-month disability and near death caused by AIDS-related ailments in 1994 (in recounting his bout with shingles, he spares us no details of his "filthy bowel explosions"). He was born in Minneapolis, the only child of a dentist and homemaker mother, and