Two Envelopes And A Phone’s Reviews > Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman > Status Update

Exhilarating reading. Makes me want to do stunts and survive, but I’m not a great multi-tasker. Walking and chewing gum, and I choke on the gum, sort of thing. Helen was a beast, Beast, a BEAST!!! How she made it out of her 20s, I don’t know! Meanwhile, the book now heads for buzzkill territory, as the censorship and regulatory boards do bring safer days, but some bad power-structure maintenance as well. Fun over??

Whim purchases by me as I browse a bookstore often come from the Film & TV shelves, and it’ll be whatever wins the contest to pique my curiosity. A Goldwyn biography, and a book about the Bogart/Huston collaborations got beat out by this book…though those books remain on my mind. A “first Hollywood stuntwoman”, and her era of activity…too tempting!