This riveting page-turner is actually a tribute to a woman who has survived and thrived for more than four decades in a profession littered with one-hit wonders. It's to Taraborrelli's credit that he refuses to cast people as one-dimensional heroes, victims or villains. Former first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis once told a lover that she had three lives (public, private, and secret), according to this gossipy biography. The book also benefits greatly from Taraborrelli's thoughtful analysis of conflicting viewpoints represented in published memoirs by Ross, Wilson, Berry Gordy, and a slew of Motown performers. Taraborrelli delves more deeply into Ross's psyche, allowing readers to fully appreciate her drive to escape Detroit and conquer the music world. This time out, there is more background about the early Supremes years that yields a complex and fascinating tale of ambition, ego, insecurities and harsh showbiz realities. Rainier almost certainly did his homework and knew that besides being one of the most beautiful women in the world, Grace Kelly came from a prosperous and feisty clan of Irish class busters who had clawed their way into High Society (the title of one of Grace's most successful. The new book boasts epic research, including extensive interviews with Ross and virtually all the major people in her life (his enviable first-hand access began in the 1970s when he started an international fan club for the Supremes and later worked for Mary Wilson). Randy Taraborrelli makes clear in Once Upon a Time.
To create what is now truly a definitive biography. Taraborrelli has totally rewritten, expanded and updated his 1989 bio Call Her Miss Ross
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