Link to buy Andy Kaufman: The Truth, Finally
Story Rating: 4 out of 5
Review:
This book starts with death and ends with the possibility of a staged resurrection. In the chapters in between the story told lays the groundwork for the Second Coming of Andy Kaufman. Some of the explanations of why Kaufman would do something as faking his death for thirty years seen plausible due to Kaufman's oddness and idiosyncrasies. But other stories seem to take the premise over the top and are not so believable. Three quarters of the book present an interesting read into the mind of Kaufman. These parts are truly enjoyable. Lining up the dots seems to be the thrust of how Kaufman pulled off this stunt.
What is interesting is that as I read the book promoting its' theories, the more I remembered the movie 'Eddie and the Cruisers". Kaufman died in 1984 and the above mentioned movie came out in 1983. The rock star has been supposedly dead for twenty years and indeed at the end of the movie Eddie lives. Maybe Andy Kaufman had seen this movie and thought to himself "wait! Wait! You're stealing my idea!" So maybe if we wait a little bit longer Andy will return. We've already been waiting thirty years.
Reviewed by Joseph
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