Readers of The Private Lives of the Three Tenors will discover the foibles, fame, and excesses of these three men: Domingo's failed attempts to cross over to Hollywood stardom and his unending efforts to eclipse Pavarotti as the world's most famous tenor; Carreras's bout with a commonly fatal illness and his flagrantly public romance with a beautiful Austrian airline stewardess; Pavarotti's increasingly scandalous habit of canceling concerts at the last minute and an affair that has earned public censure from the Pope himself.