The horror! Also: one of my favourite actors-on-actors descriptions

[selenak]

I just realised something: since, starting on Sunday, I'll be on the road for the next two weeks, every day somewhere else, armed only with my faithful Ipad, I shan't be able to watch at least the next two episodes of Breaking Bad until in two and a half or three weeks. WOE. Also, how to avoid spoilers? You, trusty friends, are really good about

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[red_satin_doll]

As we left, she grabbed me by the arm and hissed, 'You let him push you around - stop it. I'm spoiled.Get spoiled!' I nodded, smiling, and thought I'd like to see her try getting her own way with O'Toole, were she thirty years younger. Not a chance. I remember her as spoiled and selfish indeed but what wonderful common sense she had. And she took what she wanted and paid for it, and, I would hazard, has rarely had occasion to regret her choices.(...)

I love this passage. I attempted to read Phillip's memoir a few years ago - she's a fantastic writer - but she writes so vividly about her life, and about O'Toole's alcoholism and abuse/neglect that I had to stop because it hit to close to home re: my childhood. I'd like to give her another go, sometime.

[selenak]

Another thing about her memoirs which I appreciate, having had to read many a memoir as a part of research, is that she has an individual voice. By which I mean that because a lot of memoirs are ghost written (understandably so: often people with an interesting life aren't writers), based on interviews with the subjects, they tend to have a certain generic narrator voice. But not this one. She's not always sympathetic, but she's always there, if you know what I mean, and that goes for the people she decribes as well.

[red_satin_doll]

Yes, I know exactly what you mean - part of the reason I picked it up to begin with is that there was no credited ghost writer, and I had no doubt from the very first paragraph that she's a writer of great skill. I remember her description of being pregnant and suddenly relegated to the ladies circle to talk about "women things" while the guys discussed Shakespeare and theater; she was banned from the conversation suddenly and she felt "murderous". I've read that word elsewhere but my current use of the term IRL I can probably attribute to her

[selenak]

I remember interviews with Alex Haley in the documentary that was broadcast along side Roots here in Germany, and which I watched when I was still in school. He talked about Malcolm X but I was 12 and German and had no idea whom he meant! Anyway, Roots is why I had heard of Alex Haley before knowing anything about Malcolm X or for that matter Martin Luther King (in defense to our school system, we got around to US Civil Rights by the time I was 16.) Yet I haven't read the Autobiography yet, and now you've made really want to!

[astrogirl2]

I shan't be able to watch at least the next two episodes of Breaking Bad until in two and a half or three weeks.

NOOOOO! That is painfully unfair!

And does that mean we won't see you on the OUaT rewatch, too?

And speaking of prequels, there could be at least one Once Upon A Time crossover wherein Emma Swan was tasked with getting one of Saul's clients back to town.

Someone should write this. Right now. :)

[selenak]

Don't worry, I'll be available for the rewatch, as I expect most of the hotels will have wi fi, and I do have my Ipad. On which I also have the OuaT s1 episodes, since that was when I experimented with Itunes and bought the season there. But not to revisit Alburqueque for another two weeks!

[astrogirl2]

Yay! I would have missed your OUaT comments. Although, man, I'm still going to miss your Breaking Bad posts, until you get caught up.

[syredronning]

Very interesting snippet!

I remember her as spoiled and selfish indeed but what wonderful common sense she had. And she took what she wanted and paid for it, and, I would hazard, has rarely had occasion to regret her choices.(...)

Haha, I wish that were me :) Sounds really good to me.

...hmmm, it even might be already... /introspective

Thanks for sharing!

[shezan]

Oh, how WONDERFUL. Hepburn sounds more interesting in these three paragraphs than she did in several biographies.