
2. "But the result for anyone who loves, loves, loves the theater, not to mention the vanished New York of the 1950s and ’60s, is a finely observed, deeply felt (and deeply dishy) time-traveling escape worthy of a long stormy weekend."
3. "Just grab a quilt and a stack of pillows. No need for a delectable assortment of bonbons. They’re in the book."
4. "More than 50 years later, Plummer’s ear is pitch perfect."
5. "Make no mistake, Plummer’s master storytelling is also a master diversionary tactic. There is little introspection here, though every once in a while he looks at himself with eyes wide open and tells nothing but the truth."
6. "In spite of himself — his relentlessly high artistic principles; his penchant for playing the underdog, even when he was the star; his keen ear, equally attuned to the precision of Elizabethan verse and to what passes as truth across a whiskey at 5 a.m. — this man has experienced a life rich in textures, and he is able to give most of them glorious voice."
7. "His is a life in the theater lived hard and true, in the grand tradition of those distinguished players who went before, whom he has surely made proud."
8. "Good sir! I raise my glass to you."
-- from Alex Witchel's mostly-positive review of Plummer's new memoir, "In Spite Of Myself" in tomorrow's NYT Book Review.
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