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blairlovesbooks's review against another edition
2.0
There is a certain type of person historians love, the type who meticulously recounts their lives in minute detail, leaving out all trace of speculation. These people are very useful for history, for by recounting your breakfast, you are recounting what food was available to you at a place in time and how you ate it.
Having read many of these missives in college, I can unequivocally say that Ms. Huston’s memoir falls neatly into that category. Her endless, bloodless recountings of Hollywood parties and vacations will one day no doubt thrill 20th century historians, but it made for an incredibly dull reading experience.
On top of that, it’s clear Huston got to where she is just about entirely on the backs of her famous father and various paramours. She seems to have no particular affinity for performing, and goes into more detail describing pointless Mexican vacations than films that shaped her career and made her an icon. I used to love her, but now all I can see is a deeply boring nepo baby.
Having read many of these missives in college, I can unequivocally say that Ms. Huston’s memoir falls neatly into that category. Her endless, bloodless recountings of Hollywood parties and vacations will one day no doubt thrill 20th century historians, but it made for an incredibly dull reading experience.
On top of that, it’s clear Huston got to where she is just about entirely on the backs of her famous father and various paramours. She seems to have no particular affinity for performing, and goes into more detail describing pointless Mexican vacations than films that shaped her career and made her an icon. I used to love her, but now all I can see is a deeply boring nepo baby.
kathiej's review against another edition
3.0
Strong, beautiful, creative and talented women agonizing over a worthless man, sigh.
librarylapin's review against another edition
3.0
This was a pretty good memoir about Huston's life. The writing seemed distant but was done with grace and good story telling skill.
misspalah's review against another edition
3.0
I guess i just dont like reading 400 pages of book about privileged people bragging and name dropping the cluster of hollywood elites with a humble bragging tone. I wanted to like this book. I really do. Afterall, i love Anjelica as Morticia Addams. However, this book just wont do it. It's a jumbling of abusive relationship, cheating, this people and that people that she know of in film industry, a literal 100 plus pages about Jack Nicholson which is way overdone especially taking into the account of his countless affairs with other women while he's in a relationship with Anjelica is just abhorrent. I brave through these pages and thankfully, she started to talk about her careers. As i mentioned that she's privileged, it was shown on the way she wrote of how she's got many chances to do films due to her father, a famous actor and director and also some due to Jack. Only then, she managed to prove herself that she is indeed a good actor when she was being turned down for not having a look or after being picked over other actress as her acting skills was not considered strong enough. Nepotism is still nepotism regardless of how she made it. Countless of talented people came to hollywood to try their luck but never made it far like due to lack of connection and networking. She mentioned of her marriage to Bob graham after ending it years later with Jack nicholson. It was a stable marriage based on what she described. She also took a challenge to direct a film following his father footsteps in the year of 1995 after being approached by her acquaintance. She ended the book with Bob's death and her return to acting in TV series SMASH. I would have enjoyed this book if the 200 pages about Jack Nicholson was removed and the focus is about her rather than other people in her life. But then, what do i know? I am not a writer.
vspinazola's review against another edition
1.0
A name-dropping bore of a book in straight chronological order with zero self-analysis. Truly disappointing to read the first half of the book focus solely on other people - men (Jack, Ryan, her father) - and their lives, rather than talking about her own. I typically don't expect much out of famous people, but Anjelica really lost a lot of my respect with this one. I won't be reading the second half.
princesszinza's review against another edition
1.0
I shouldn't have even started this one, seeing how I hated Angelica's first book. My opinion of her and her musings hasn't changed.
fgaon's review against another edition
3.0
This book is the second part of the memoir and was better than the first. I wanted to understand Huston's relationship with Jack Nicholson. This book offered more insight than the last. Overall, not bad and somewhat held my interest. Huston was more open about herself....