My First 2,000 Men
In this tell-all autobiography the 60-year-old Renay recalls her days as a movie starlet, fashion model, pin-up girl, burlesque queen, artist and beauty adviser. But apparently those were only stop-gap careers: Renay has been married seven times and has had one-night and lengthier affairs (two encounters or more) with such well-known figures as gangster Mickey Cohen, publisher Lyle Stuart, baseball players Joe DiMaggio and Walt Dropo, and movie stars of several generations, from George Raft to Glenn Ford and Burt Lancaster to . . . you name him. Besides identifying her bed partners, Renay mentions other male celebrities she has known in other than the biblical sense; in this section the names drop like the monsoon rains. Her in-depth research leads her to classify men alternately as screwballs, martyrs and eternal children. This is a book with the intellectual depth of a cartoon strip.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.