Alan's Friend Comments

Oye! Alan, thanks for the add. Take care...Leaundra

"Your book is a page turner because you both led such adventurous and successful lives in the worlds of art and entertainment, ostensibly different areas which are inherently fascinating and which feed each other more than we think. The dark moments are dealt with as frankly as the brighter turns.

"The measure of depth is the consistently strong melody of the love story which plays underneath almost every incident, and provides the various pressures, cultural and otherwise, which challenge survival.

"The title is right, the length is right, and as the story of two exceptionally talented people, the book's excellence stands as proof that their talent and successes, illuminated by their love for each other, are justified and deserved."

--A.R. Gurney

"Anyone living in a long term relationship, gay or straight, will find him/herself in the pages Alan Shayne and Norman Sunshine have written. They know what it's like to be together for a long time and they tell it like it is, with wit, courage, honesty and tenderness. From Broadway to the East Village to Madison Avenue to Hollywood they have tales to tell and they tell them brilliantly. I loved this book!"

--Alfred Uhry

"A life well lived does not always make a book well written, but here, in this truthful and affecting work, are two carefully maintained lives without a mortgage, paired by fate and synchronized from two points of view like a pair of mated butterflies--weathering storms, loving and enduring joy and danger and triumph and loss together with wit, dignity, intelligence and grace. Reading about their lives has taught me a lot about my own--what I did or did not do, and how I can do it better.  Nothing careless or dishonest in the structure--just one riveting, wisely observed revelation after another by two extraordinary men with a lot to give, to each other and to those of us lucky enough to share. When I grow up, I want to be just like Alan Shayne and Norman Sunshine."  

--Rex Reed