Academy Award-winning actress Huston’s “tireless fascination with the world is thrilling…” (Elle), and Watch Me is an “elegant and entertaining” (Chicago Tribune) account of her seventeen-year love affair with Jack Nicholson, her rise to stardom, and her mastery of the craft of acting.
Picking up where her first memoir A Story Lately Told leaves off, Watch Me is a chronicle of Anjelica Huston’s glamorous and eventful Hollywood years. “With a conversational intimacy, inhabiting the role of the new best friend” (San Francisco Chronicle), she writes about falling in love with Jack Nicholson and her adventurous, turbulent, high-profile, spirited relationship with him and his intoxicating circle of friends. She writes about learning how to act; about her Academy Award-winning portrayal of Maerose Prizzi in Prizzi’s Honor; about her collaborations with many of the greatest directors in Hollywood, including Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Richard Condon, Bob Rafelson, Mike Nichols, and Stephen Frears. She movingly and beautifully describes the death of her father John Huston and her marriage to sculptor Robert Graham. She is candid, mischievous, warm, passionate, funny, and a fabulous storyteller. Watch Me is a magnificent memoir “from a lady so simultaneously real, tough, vulnerable, privileged and candid, I want to hear whatever she tells me” (Lisa Schwarzbaum, The New York Times Book Review).
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“Anjelica Huston’s second
installment in her life story is a captivating look at a charmed life. She
takes on the role of narrator for this audiobook and tells her story with many
anecdotes that both astound and amaze. Her even-toned delivery suggests that
the events she recounts have no emotional content, her tempestuous relationship
with Jack Nicholson included. However, her love for her father shines through
in her impression of his voice—she captures his cadence and language
magnificently. Listeners will shed tears when she describes her father’s last
days; her sorrow at losing him sounds as raw as the day it happened. This is a
touching performance from a person who has lived a most extraordinary life. Winner
of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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