His book ''TALES OF A RASCAL' is now available at Amazon.com
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Hollywoodshack — 13 years ago(February 22, 2013 02:58 PM)
birenbaum, does Blake mention who might have murdered his wife? He seems like he's burdened to confess something in this disorganized book designed to vent his misery. All the good parts are cut out of the previews.
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lkroger — 12 years ago(October 28, 2013 05:10 PM)
FWIW, here's a link to the Amazon listing. Click to the "New" books, where it's available for $25.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615591949
I just got it, and it's interesting stuff. Very light, very readable, somewhat fragmentary and stream of consciousness. Oh, yeah, and the language is pretty raw. It flows nicely, but there's enough grammatical awkwardness to make me think it wasn't professionally ghostwritten. Did Blake really write this himself? Could be.
I had mixed feelings about making the purchase. I mean, as a matter of principle, I wouldn't buy a book by O.J. Simpson. I'm not saying this is right, but somehow I feel better about Blake than Simpson. Like, Blake's wife seems to have not had clean hands in the circumstances. This could be unfair, so I'm not saying it to convince anyone; I just somehow felt I wouldn't be evil if I were to buy this book. Maybe my mealy-mouthed words here are just self-justification. Anyway, I haven't yet gotten to the part where Blake writes of his murdered wife. -
Hollywoodshack — 12 years ago(October 31, 2013 02:14 PM)
Ikroger, keep us posted. Simpson's wife was having affairs with other men. The book by Bill Dear gives us huge evidence his son, Jason, that looks like him, did the murders. I first thought Blake innocent until I started reading his book. Still, the hitman theory works for me best.
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lkroger — 12 years ago(February 02, 2014 08:31 PM)
Blake's book mostly protests his own innocence, but says relatively little about who else might have done it. Christian Brando's name comes up, indicating that's who Blake has in mind, but he doesn't want to go into the details.
Glancing at the news and facts, Brando has some odd connections to the case He'd originally been thought to be the father of the child, and he'd been recorded threatening (was it serious?) to kill her. And, while I know invoking the Fifth Amendment isn't an admission of guilt, it's certainly interesting.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local&id=3573701
BURBANK Marlon Brando's son, a key figure in the wrongful death case of his former lover and Robert Blake's wife, refused to answer questions in court Tuesday.
Christian Brando's lawyer stood next to the witness box and repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment on behalf of his client to protect him from possible self-incrimination.
Blake's lawyers have pointed at Brando as a possible suspect in the slaying of Blake's wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. Brando, 46, has not been arrested or charged -
jbacks3 — 11 years ago(September 11, 2014 01:25 PM)
I'm late on this topic, but I find myself agreeing with you. At first I had to ask myself if this was a racial bias judgement, but no. OJ clearly got away with murdering 2 people, thanks to a circus trial, botched prosecution and 12 of the dumbest jurors on the planet (9 of whom where Black 2 White women and a Hispanic man) and Bonnie Lee Bakley is, like it or not, not a sympathetic victim. She was a star stuck hustler (oddly, the Phil Spector case is never mentioned as a contemporary parallel why? Possibly because he's a nutcase?) callously perhaps, the world might be better off without her in it. Also, Blake is far older than OJ he hadn't acted in the 4 years prior to his wife's homicide and there wasn't a racial factor involved in the actual homicide, only in the comparative outcome: the jury didn't buy the evidence. Blake had a much lower celebrity factor than OJ at the time, no high profile white Bronco chase and the victim wasn't brutally hacked to death. All this aside, for me, Blake's autobiography (which I haven't yet read) also has the added plus of describing MGM during Our Gang and the insight on how he succeeded despite being his own worst enemy.
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SealedCargo — 6 years ago(April 17, 2019 02:35 AM)
i guess he can't retire on the laurels of what he should retire on, IN COLD BLOOD, given that he turned out being a killer, but he was to the little rascals what Sam was to Diffrent Strokes. by the time "Bobby" was on that show, it was already done for, and Spanky was more like John Candy than the cute kid we knew and love.
Robert Blake was an incredible actor. I remember I read a readers digest interview, and he said he should have had a career like Nicholson and Hoffman and Pacino and I thought, knowing only of Baretta, that was kind of a stretch.
then i saw IN COLD BLOOD and my views changed entirely.
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ToastedCheese — 4 years ago(November 08, 2021 11:03 PM)
Blake was a terrific actor.
Not many tend to mention
Electra Glide In Blue - '73
in which he plays a diminutive desert motorcycle cop who dreams of advancement to the detective branch.
He is sympathetic and portrays many layers in this superbly shot, semi-arthouse, drama/actioner/mystery.
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Blue Wave — 4 years ago(November 09, 2021 12:44 AM)
I would like to read his book. For the sake of justice I hope it does become clear who killed his wife. All deserve to have honest reputations. All deserve to have good deaths. This situation doesn't aseem to hvave that. Hopefully Robert Blakes' book does help with that.