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110 pp.
| Chelsea
| February, 2001
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LibraryISBN 0-7910-6114-0$$19.95
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PaperISBN 0-7910-6115-9$$9.95
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Overcoming Adversity series.
The star of movies such as Die Hard and The Sixth Sense is presented as a childhood stutterer who overcame this difficulty with speech therapy. Unfortunately, the book, which is illustrated with stock black-and-white photos, overloads the first chapter with information on stuttering, while the rest of the volume is a rather standard celebrity biography. A time line and filmography are included. Bib., ind.