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Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. Sort order. Start your review of Rockettes, Rockstars and Rockbottom. Mar 07, Crystal added it Shelves: not-worth-the-pricetag , awful , dont-bother. Where do I even begin with this piece of mess? Firstly I have to applaud her for knowing the main reason anyone bother picking up her so-called autobiography, what with it basically a how-to guide on writing over 10 chapters on the only thing people bought this book for here's a hint: it's about a boy while painting themselves as self-sacrifical heroines by overexaggerating on their self importance and 'heroic deeds'.
Basically a kiss-and-tell with lots of heapings of woo-is-me attitude. Reads Where do I even begin with this piece of mess? Reads like a fanfiction with horrible editing work or no editing at all and perfect Mary Sue point-of-view. Just read it in the bookstore if you can find it for the parts you care about lets be honest here and save your money for better autobiographies by people who are actually making it in the industry with their talent than ending up writing for Buzznet that site still exist?
View 1 comment. Mar 14, Shannon rated it really liked it. I am intrigued with all things dance, so I really enjoyed reading about this dancer's highs and lows.
There were parts of the story where Keltie made me feel like I was buckled in right beside her on her ride on the co-dependency roller-coaster! There were other parts where I wish she would've gone into more detail and elaborated on the actual events leading up to her fall to rockbottom.
There were some moments that I felt she cut a little short and I was left with unanswered questions. However I am intrigued with all things dance, so I really enjoyed reading about this dancer's highs and lows. However, I can't fault a dancer for not being the best writer. Overall, I thought it was a very honest and genuine story about her journey to learn to love herself first and I truly enjoyed reading it. Jan 17, Katie rated it did not like it.
I don't even remember how I got this on my "To Read" List, but when I saw it available on Oyster, I decided to give it a go, especially since it's such a short read Colleen doesn't really spend much of any time introducing herself or her story and jumps right into the "rockstars" portion of the book. She spends the whole time talking about her boyfriends, the book itself is split into the three different men she dated, doesn't really give us any reason to root for her, and I don't even remember how I got this on my "To Read" List, but when I saw it available on Oyster, I decided to give it a go, especially since it's such a short read She spends the whole time talking about her boyfriends, the book itself is split into the three different men she dated, doesn't really give us any reason to root for her, and seems to be pretty into self loathing and pitty.
I couldn't wait for the book to be done, maybe it's because I literally could not relate at all, but there wasn't hardly anything I liked about the author or her book.
I was looking forward to reading about her time as a professional dancer, with some romance thrown in, but that's not at all what this book is.
The only thing I got out of it was gratefulness that I don't have to define myself according to a man, much like it seems Ms. Colleen has to. Best of luck in the future, Keltie, and I hope you're able to really love yourself. Feb 27, Stacie rated it it was ok. Was a lot of bragging about who she knows and the ideas that were hers but "Dreamer" used for his band. Not recommended.
Jun 29, Katelyn Annyce rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorite-books , memoir-autobiography. Rockettes, Rockstars, and Rockbottom is my favorite book. This is the most enjoyable book I've ever read because I feel like I really connected with the book. I cried several different times while reading this book because it was very touching.
Keltie Colleen majorly inspires me because she was very personal in this book and her style of writing really makes the reader feel like your having a one on one conversation with her. This book is about Keltie's life starting from when she was a kid. It Rockettes, Rockstars, and Rockbottom is my favorite book.
It takes you through all of the struggle and heartbreak Keltie went through when she moved to New York when she was 18 to pursue a dancing career.
Along the way, she meets boy's who teach her life lessons through heartbreak. I defiantly recommend this book to young adult women and high schoolers. Keltie was completely honest in this book and the reader can really sense that. I enjoyed that she didn't try to sugar coat any of the pain she was feeling.
I applaud her for releasing this book since it is so honest. It is a very short book so it is an easy read. I feel like this book very well depicts the struggle of figuring out who you are in life though different people and experiences that will benefit you negatively and positively.
Keltie really comes off as a very likable person and she shows a great amount of courage and strength through the whole book.
Nov 15, Eryn rated it really liked it. Nov 22, Sarina rated it really liked it. I'll admit it: Keltie isn't the most amazing writer in the world. She doesn't form phrases so eloquently that you need a dictionary to get through Rockettes, Rockstars, and Rockbottom. But that same 'flaw' - its simplicity and how easy it is to relate to - is the reason why I enjoyed reading her book so much. The brutal honesty she brings to the table doesn't need some kind of a fancy vocabulary to be considered interesting.
Keltie's charmingly dorky nature makes it easy to go from crying to laughing without hesitation and her outlook on love, work, and life is remarkable. It doesn't get much more inspiring than this, at least to a girl of my age. I'm so very proud of her and I'm sure I'll be rushing back for a second read the next time I get a chance. Apr 15, Rebecca rated it liked it Shelves: mindless-reads. KC: Be yourself and love the things that make you unique.
The call came after a lengthy audition process with Spielberg in the room, and the role, originated by Wilma Curley on Broadway in and later portrayed by Gina Trikonis in the film, was her biggest dream. In fact, it's something Garcia-Lee says she manifested from the day plans for the movie were announced in January On top of her regular training, she would travel multiple hours each day to New York City and New Jersey for classes with Steps on Broadway and the Princeton Ballet School, respectively.
Her bedroom walls were lined with cutouts from the pages of Dance Spirit , which served as inspiration for her goals. Her mother, Terri Garcia, was a professional dancer in the s she even danced Francisca in the West Side Story tour in , and Garcia-Lee was eager to follow in her footsteps.
Garcia-Lee went to high school at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she studied first ballet and then drama. As a sophomore, she was cast as Graziella in her school's production of West Side Story. The magic of performing Jerome Robbins' iconic choreography never left her. She's been banging on West Side Story 's door ever since. All the while, she held out hope that West Side Story would someday come her way.
In , Garcia-Lee was considered for Graziella in the Broadway revival but didn't get the role after countless callbacks. After that, two more productions didn't cast her as Graziella. For the Broadway revival, she was only offered the opportunity to audition for the role of Anybodys.
She turned down both opportunities in favor of other projects—she would wait for Graziella. Despite the rejection, she was undeterred. So when Deadline published an article announcing the film remake, Garcia-Lee felt that playing Graziella was meant to be. At the audition, the casting room was filled with many of her friends and fellow Broadway darlings, like Eloise Kropp Cats and Jonalyn Saxer Mean Girls.
According to the film's choreographer, Justin Peck, Garcia-Lee quickly caught the eye of the creative team. I could sense that from the first audition. At the same time, she was committed to the Broadway run of Moulin Rouge! She spent much of the winter and early spring of trying to figure out how to do it all. She asked if she could miss some rehearsals and most preview performances including the all-important first preview performance so she could film her scenes in the movie. I'll never forget Steven up on a ladder, then Steven halfway down the ladder, and then Steven on a rolling chair, Steven lying on the floor looking up at [the choreography] this way, Justin tweaking and tweaking.
Rehearsals for the iconic "Dance at the Gym" scene lasted two weeks. Before the work began, Garcia-Lee says, she familiarized herself with Peck's work as much as she could to get a sense of his style. However, I loved the challenge of it. Once rehearsals wrapped, filming for "Dance at the Gym" lasted six days, and according to Garcia-Lee, her feet never hurt so badly in her entire life. But that didn't stop her from soaking up the magic. Especially on the day she and her co-star Mike Faist Riff shot their duet.
We lost ourselves in the art. We finally got to the end of [the take and] Mike and I fell to the floor. Steven ran over to us, dove on the floor with us and smothered us with love. It was magic. But all those celebratory can-can kicks came to a crashing halt in March when the pandemic hit, just as she felt she was "stepping into the height of her career. Though she thankfully recovered, she was left wondering what the future would hold. Several months later, it was announced that West Side Story 's release was going to be pushed back a year.
Garcia-Lee spent her days volunteering at a horse stable in Brooklyn. It was the first time in decades she found the time to get back into the saddle like she did as a kid growing up close to the Bucks County farms.
When rockstar number one breaks her heart, Keltie replaces him with a long-haired, skinny jean wearing clone. And when that relationship ends, she finds herself dancing on the MTV Video Music Award stage making love eyes at her next skinny jean wearing future boyfriend, whose face in the coming months would taunt her from the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
Keltie hits rockbottom after finding out that rockstar number three had not only been touring all over the world, but touring the beds of various women. Left in a state of disbelief, she vows to break her addiction to emotionally unavailable men in skinny jeans. She does what any women does when her heart is broken: she cries, stops eating and is sure her life is over.
Keltie walks us through the steps of healing heartbreak and finding yourself after your identity is stolen by someone else's heart. Her ability to be honest to herself and then share that with the world is not only incredibly brave, but inspiring. It also hints that Keltie may have been threatening to leave him, and that Ryan just wanted her to make a decision:. Go spin circles for me, Wound relentlessly Around the words we used to sling.
Oh, such torturous things, Always chewing up the only ones I ever mean. Go, go, go. Even so, as was the pattern in their relationship, they soldiered on. Ryan and his friends finished recording Pretty. They even went on a Caribbean vacation:. We went far away to the Caribbean islands where no one could bother us. We were surrounded by sunshine, beautiful beaches and limitless fruity drinks. It was amazing to spend time with our cell phones off and without being bothered for hours.
We ate our faces off. We drank our faces off. We stumbled home arm-in-arm through the dimly lit, cobblestone pathways of the resort. When [Ryan] and I were allowed to be us, without any of the pressures or distractions from the world, we were the best of everything.
The best of friends. The best of crazies. The best of lovers. Keltie had begun to feel the pressures of their respective careers. In return, Ryan supported her dancing career, spent time with her friends, and bought all of her plane tickets. Keltie continued to take a strangely maternal role in his life, but both of them were too entrenched in their mutual codependency to care:.
For all the times I helped [Ryan] out, he watched me practice for an upcoming Broadway audition. He bought me flights to New York and back so I could attend a one-in-a-million chance audition. He listened to me babble incessantly about all the things I wanted to accomplish. Whenever he went away, he brought back little tokens of love—earrings from Prague, postcards from Amsterdam, a stuffed animal from Australia.
He wrote love song after love song for me. Things I said or did would constantly show up in his lyrics. I was a muse for him. A mother for him. And during the times we actually slept in the same bed, a woman. Ryan had also become increasingly dependent on Keltie taking care of him, as shown in this extremely rude interview with Kerrang! I kept him focused, and I sewed his clothes and managed his calendar. I made sure someone came to clean the house.
I did his laundry, I paid his bills on time, and I paid my bills on time but for a completely different address. I called his family with updates and sent birthday cards when necessary. I did this because I loved him and he needed help.
Their relationship soon faced another trial. Keltie refused, but also made a series of false promises whereby she would move in with him. Every time, Ryan would do exactly as she asked, and Keltie would not follow through on her end. She simply did not take him seriously, and Ryan naively tried and tried to do what she wanted:.
He placed a ring on my finger and along with it, a million promises. We condo shopped and he bought the one I loved. We picked out wallpaper, drapes, bed sheets, art and countertops. He purchased a giant bathtub with claw feet and jets because I said if he did, I would move in. It was the running joke with our good friend and interior decorator.
Then Pretty. Monkey for sorting me out and being amazing, beautiful and understanding of my impossible nature. By this time, Ryan genuinely believed that he was damaged, unworthy, and unable to survive on his own.
But who could love me? I am out of my mind, Throwing a line out to sea To see if I can catch a dream. He also seems to have been considering breaking up with her, despite how giving and affectionate she was. The sun was always in her eyes. Tellingly, in a promotional interview for Pretty. Regardless, they did not break up. Her career was looking up, since she had been accepted back into the Rockettes, and she began to see Ryan as a has-been:.
We performed to a sold-out crows, in arenas his band could only half-fill. I happened to be on crutches after sustaining nerve damage in my leg. I was out of the show for five days, and I was unsure that I would ever dance again.
Seeing my body fall apart made me cling to [Ryan] even more. Everyone else is nothing. I loved him anyway. I loved him more, I think. Here is part of the interview, which was released in March of :.
Yes, the same Ryan Ross of the band Panic at the Disco! Having a famous boyfriend has its share of challenges, though.
Since she started dating Ryan, numerous blogs, message board posts and videos have bad-mouthed Keltie. Old photos of her in revealing clothes, which she wore for previous dance and modeling jobs, were posted and scrutinized. No one deserves to hear bad things about themselves. In February of , Keltie finally decided to move in with Ryan largely because she landed a dance contract in Las Vegas and began making the necessary preparations.
Right before the official move, they even went on a vacation together in Hawaii:. We had the best time swimming with dolphins, watching huge turtles lay on the sandy beach, and taking our nightly walks to the hot tub.
I believed him. I believed that each year we got a little older and a little more of the growing pains of our lives together sorted themselves out. I believed we would be together forever. I moved all my stuff into his Vegas pad as I prepared to start my new job in a few days. Finally, after all our time apart, we were living together! He walked in the door with a giant flower arrangement and hugs and kisses for me.
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