Inhaltsangabe
An unusually structured memoir, which chronicles the story of my life, from the 50s to the present using a collage technique consisting of poems, experimental prose, salient quotations (from artists and writers especially inspiring to me, such as Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan and Emily Dickinson), as well as personal commentary on film history, including an extended essay called "All the Doomed Blondes", concerning the love goddess figure as represented in films by Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Marilyn Monroe and Jean Seberg, with many stops in between. Other actors given special attention in the book, include Steve McQueen, Montgomery Clift, James Dean and Marlon Brando, with special attention given to both Hepburns. Details of personal contact and conversation with iconic performers include conversations with Steve McQueen, Kim Stanley, Natalie Wood and Henry Miller. Journal entries are featured, from a move west to east in 1995, from Los Angeles to NYC; a trip to Russia in 2007 to host a classic American film festival; as well as workshops with Robert Bly and Joseph Chaikin. The book also describes adventures in producing and directing special events, usually done for political purposes, such as a concert version of "The Wizard of Oz" performed at Lincoln Center as a benefit for the Children's Defense Fund, featuring Jackson Browne, Jewel, Roger Daltrey, Nathan Lane, Natalie Cole, Debra Winger and the Boy's Choir of Harlem, with musicians such as Ry Cooder, Dr. John and David Sanborn; and the program for Desmond Tutu's 75th Birthday, a benefit for Artist for a New South Africa. Further experiences collaborating with Jackson Browne are highlighted, spanning 40 years. In a long acting and directing career, including acting in the films "Mike's Murder", "Step Mom", "UFOria" and others, I was fortunate enough to work with some of the greatest actors of our time, including Meryl Streep, Ed Harris, Debra Winger, Gene Hackman and Ellen Burstyn, all of whom find their way into this memoir. As for theater work, from Shakespeare to Strindberg to Denis Johnson to the rocker Steve Earle, there is a particular focus on Sam Shepard, with whom I did a dozen plays, directing and acting; and Murray Mednick, in particular 'The Coyote Cycle', one of the great epics of 20th century American theater, in which I played Coyote. My relationship with the Coyote tales of the Native American culture is central to my story. Sexuality and sprituality, fame and failure, family and the search for a real home, all will be revealed, explicitly and frankly, in a manner I hope will make for a rollicking good read.
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