After being out of the spotlight for over thirty years has Doris Day earned the right to some privacy? Over the last 12 months this site has delivered you the news about three new books. Each proclaim they are to give a previously untold insight into the life of Doris Day. Pausing for just a moment though one does have to ask if we really do need such revelations. Well my opinion for what it is worth is I actually can't see the merit of going over old ground about old things which may or may not have happened...

One of the main reasons why I think these books have so strongly divided Doris's fan base is the majority were actually drawn to Doris Day for all the positive things that she represents. She's extremely talented but also very modest, she's a genuinely nice lady, she wasn't a tyrant to work with, she's respectful towards her fellow man and god's creatures and she's sustained a very loyal and protective fan base by keeping in touch with her supporters long after bowing out from Hollywood.

No one professes Doris is a goody-two-shoes as it has been well documented that her life was not a peach but on the whole the way she conducted herself in private and public actually puts a lot of today's "wanna-be celebrities" to shame. This is not a lady who made her name through selling her soul to the press but a decent human being who let her talent do the talking. A lady who thirty years ago published with A.E. Hotchner an honest account of her life and since then has lived a very ordinary existence surrounded by the people and four legged friends that she adores. What more is there left to tell which we don't already know and that we can honestly rely on to be true considering so many of the people closest to Doris during her glory years are no longer with us.

My feeling is if you want to read any of these books you probably will. So it serves no purpose me telling you not to or by censoring conversations on the forum. It is just that I personally don't want to invest any more time talking about them so have dropped my coverage.

My advice is if you have a few bucks to spare you are better placed making a donation to one of Doris's animal charities, buying the A&E TV biography or perhaps even one of her many DVDs or CDs!