Diane Keaton
Hardcover | Pages: 262 pages Rating: 3.42 | 9658 Users | 1282 Reviews
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| ISBN: | 1400068789 (ISBN13: 9781400068784) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Mom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always little reminders pasted on the kitchen wall. For example, the word THINK. I found THINK thumbtacked on a bulletin board in her darkroom. I saw it Scotch-taped on a pencil box she’d collaged. I even found a pamphlet titled THINK on her bedside table. Mom liked to THINK.So begins Diane Keaton’s unforgettable memoir about her mother and herself. In it you will meet the woman known to tens of millions as Annie Hall, but you will also meet, and fall in love with, her mother, the loving, complicated, always-thinking Dorothy Hall. To write about herself, Diane realized she had to write about her mother, too, and how their bond came to define both their lives. In a remarkable act of creation, Diane not only reveals herself to us, she also lets us meet in intimate detail her mother. Over the course of her life, Dorothy kept eighty-five journals—literally thousands of pages—in which she wrote about her marriage, her children, and, most probingly, herself. Dorothy also recorded memorable stories about Diane’s grandparents. Diane has sorted through these pages to paint an unflinching portrait of her mother—a woman restless with intellectual and creative energy, struggling to find an outlet for her talents—as well as her entire family, recounting a story that spans four generations and nearly a hundred years.
More than the autobiography of a legendary actress, Then Again is a book about a very American family with very American dreams. Diane will remind you of yourself, and her bonds with her family will remind you of your own relationships with those you love the most.
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| Title | : | Then Again |
| Author | : | Diane Keaton |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 262 pages |
| Published | : | November 15th 2011 by Random House |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Biography Memoir |
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Diane Keaton has had a career that was a mixed success. She has been a small player in some of the larger artistic events in the USA, appearing in the Broadway production of Hair, playing a mob wife in The Godfather series. She was a regular cast member in Woody Allen films such as Play it Again, Sam, Sleeper, and Love and Death. She had starring roles in Looking for Mister Goodbar a how-not-to-date guide, that paired her with Richard Gere, in Warren Beattys Reds and, of course, she starred inAs an author of two memoirs, what I most appreciated about this book was Diane Keaton's honesty. From start to finish she pulls no punches about who she is, her strengths and weaknesses, her eccentricities and philosophy of life.She fashions a love story to her mother, yet she is not so kind to herself. Perhaps, this is the fate of the memoirist that they tend to be harder on themselves than others. In any case, we like and appreciate Diane from start to finish. The three loves in her life -
I'm a big fan of Ms. Keaton, so I was really excited to dive into this memoir. When it began, I thought to myself: "I think I'm really going to like this". Let me preface that I'm usually not a huge fan of memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, or anything that's like reading a timeline from a history textbook. However, when I started "Then Again", I got the impression that Diane was going to tell her life story through the perspective of her mother's life; a concept that I was interested to
My last book read was Big Little Lies. I wanted to read it before HBO aired it. Looking through my stack, I saw this memoir of Keaton (and her mother), and she is also appearing in The Young Pope on HBO. I really didn't know much about Diane Keaton and now I perhaps know too much. She needed to add much more background and details to her activities, such as being in Hair. I assumed she took off her clothes, but when I googgled her, it turns out that she was the only cast member that didn't, and
Diane KeatonDiane Keaton is an American actor, director, and producer. She's well known for her roles in many films, including: Play It Again, Sam; The Godfather Trilogy; Annie Hall; Something's Gotta Give; Mad Money.....and many others. In this memoir Diane talks about growing up in a large family in California, her career, her romances, her adopted children, and especially her mother. She calls this a story about her mother and herself.Little Diane KeatonDiane grew up in a loving home, with an
I was very touched by this book, but I think it was especially relevant for me because of the loss of her parents. With regard to whether I would recommend it to friends - I'm not sure if other readers who have not experienced that loss would enjoy it as much, unless they are avid Diane Keaton fans and have an interest in her life. It is an entertaining read though. I especially related to the search for who your parents really were as people, not just your parents, and what their hopes and
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