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Drama: An Actor's Education
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“Drama is a cut above—touching, self-aware, and beautifully written.” (People )
“Warm and generous. . . . Lithgow is relentlessly likable. . . . A brisk book, packed with funny stories. . . . A buoyant, heartwarming account of coming into one’s own.” (The New York Times Book Review )
“Anyone interested in an actor’s life—especially backstage—will find this book enlightening.” (USA Today )
“A memoir as finely crafted as one of Lithgow’s performances. Lithgow tells of transgressions, indiscretions, and a tabloid-worthy affair that my PR people could only have wished for. An exciting and revealing book, and what’s more, it’s about ACTING!” (Steve Martin )
“John Lithgow’s memoir is more than an insider’s view of his craft. The portrait of his father is as finely articulated as it is heartfelt, and the account of the young actor’s struggles with his too-young, too-early first marriage is both moving and candid. I loved this book.” (John Irving )
“This book has all the drama we’ve come to expect from John Lithgow, the alternately dark, tender, romantic, dangerous, deranged actor we find in Drama, which is also a family tale of the richest variety. A great read.” (Mary Karr )
“John Lithgow’s memoir is both unflinching and irresistible. It captures the long, hard road to the stage for any actor, or for virtually anyone trying to make it in New York, and shows how putting all of your hopes into the one thing you love isn’t so crazy after all.” (Gay Talese )
“Drama recounts in graceful, considered prose a life that after a few wrong turns is now happier and more well adjusted than most.”- (Charles McGrath, The New York Times )
“Lithgow rises to the occasion with courageous honesty and fairness. . . . There’s something breath-catchingly poignant in the simple, hard-won wisdom he imparts before taking his final bow: ‘Acting is pretty great. But it isn’t everything.’” (The Los Angeles Times )
“John Lithgow’s memoir, Drama, reminded me that the world is indeed all a stage and that professionals have some great ideas about how to perform on it.” (Drew Gilpin Faust, The Wall Street Journal )
“Warm and generous. . . . Lithgow is relentlessly likable. . . . A brisk book, packed with funny stories. . . . A buoyant, heartwarming account of coming into one’s own.” (The New York Times Book Review )
“Anyone interested in an actor’s life—especially backstage—will find this book enlightening.” (USA Today )
“A memoir as finely crafted as one of Lithgow’s performances. Lithgow tells of transgressions, indiscretions, and a tabloid-worthy affair that my PR people could only have wished for. An exciting and revealing book, and what’s more, it’s about ACTING!” (Steve Martin )
“John Lithgow’s memoir is more than an insider’s view of his craft. The portrait of his father is as finely articulated as it is heartfelt, and the account of the young actor’s struggles with his too-young, too-early first marriage is both moving and candid. I loved this book.” (John Irving )
“This book has all the drama we’ve come to expect from John Lithgow, the alternately dark, tender, romantic, dangerous, deranged actor we find in Drama, which is also a family tale of the richest variety. A great read.” (Mary Karr )
“John Lithgow’s memoir is both unflinching and irresistible. It captures the long, hard road to the stage for any actor, or for virtually anyone trying to make it in New York, and shows how putting all of your hopes into the one thing you love isn’t so crazy after all.” (Gay Talese )
“Drama recounts in graceful, considered prose a life that after a few wrong turns is now happier and more well adjusted than most.”- (Charles McGrath, The New York Times )
“Lithgow rises to the occasion with courageous honesty and fairness. . . . There’s something breath-catchingly poignant in the simple, hard-won wisdom he imparts before taking his final bow: ‘Acting is pretty great. But it isn’t everything.’” (The Los Angeles Times )
“John Lithgow’s memoir, Drama, reminded me that the world is indeed all a stage and that professionals have some great ideas about how to perform on it.” (Drew Gilpin Faust, The Wall Street Journal )
Kurzbeschreibung
"A memoir as finely crafted as one of Lithgow’s performances."—Steve Martin
Emmy Award-winner John Lithgow presents a charming, witty, and revealing memoir about his family, his work, and his life in Drama—an intimate story of insights and inspirational reflections from one of America’s most beloved actors. Lithgow pays tribute to his father, his greatest influence, and relives his collaborations with renowned performers and directors including Mike Nichols, Bob Fosse, Liv Ullmann, Meryl Streep, and Brian De Palma. A compelling reflection on the trials, triumphs, and changes across his long career, Lithgow’s Drama illuminates the inner life of a celebrated talent, and points the way forward for anyone aspiring to greatness in their own life.
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An actor's education...
4. August 2011
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe|Amazon Vine™ Rezension
(Was ist das?)
and an actor's life. The problem with some autobiographies is that they're often self-reverential, self-serving, or totally lacking in self-awareness. (Bill Clinton - I'm looking at you!) The BEST ones provide the bad with the good and hope the reader can come to their own conclusion about the quality and substance of the writer's life. (Katherine Graham's autobiography is a great example). Most autobiographies are somewhere in between and succeed in giving a glimpse of reality, though often distorted slightly by the writer's sensibilities. In John Lithgow's autobiography, he gives the reader a taste of what it's like to be an actor and to also live in the "real world".
Lithgow was the son of actor and director parents. The third of four children, John was raised in Ohio, but often moved between Massachusetts and Ohio, because of his father's often precarious career in local theater. Arthur Lithgow was a pioneer in presenting Shakespeare and other plays in Ohio play houses, and gained great prominence as a director. The family finally landed in Princeton, New Jersey when John was in high school because of his father's job at the university. John went to Harvard College, where he was active in student theater, although he had planned to be an artist. Since he had been acting in his father's productions since childhood, he found his "home" at Harvard's Loeb theater where he was considered a good stage actor and director. An early marriage while at Harvard to a woman six years his senior eventually came undone after producing his first son when Lithgow finally gained success as a Broadway actor and had an affair with Norwegian actress Liv Ullman. He made a successful and happy marriage and had two children with a professor at UCLA that has lasted 30 years.
Lithgow is an excellent and flowing writer. He talks with seeming candor about his personal relationships with his family - and in particular his father - and about the years spent breaking into professional acting. While he doesn't name names in all cases, he writes - having changed the names of the movie and actors and director - about his work on his second movie, "Obsession". He writes with warmth and compassion about the problems on the set with aging actor Cliff Robertson, who Lithgow describes as of the "Old Hollywood". Lithgow shows a beneficence of feeling for an aging actor that perhaps he fears will happen to himself as he ages on stage and screen.
I think that if you like John Lithgow's acting, you'll enjoy this book. It's not a long book but an all encompassing work on his actor's life.
Lithgow was the son of actor and director parents. The third of four children, John was raised in Ohio, but often moved between Massachusetts and Ohio, because of his father's often precarious career in local theater. Arthur Lithgow was a pioneer in presenting Shakespeare and other plays in Ohio play houses, and gained great prominence as a director. The family finally landed in Princeton, New Jersey when John was in high school because of his father's job at the university. John went to Harvard College, where he was active in student theater, although he had planned to be an artist. Since he had been acting in his father's productions since childhood, he found his "home" at Harvard's Loeb theater where he was considered a good stage actor and director. An early marriage while at Harvard to a woman six years his senior eventually came undone after producing his first son when Lithgow finally gained success as a Broadway actor and had an affair with Norwegian actress Liv Ullman. He made a successful and happy marriage and had two children with a professor at UCLA that has lasted 30 years.
Lithgow is an excellent and flowing writer. He talks with seeming candor about his personal relationships with his family - and in particular his father - and about the years spent breaking into professional acting. While he doesn't name names in all cases, he writes - having changed the names of the movie and actors and director - about his work on his second movie, "Obsession". He writes with warmth and compassion about the problems on the set with aging actor Cliff Robertson, who Lithgow describes as of the "Old Hollywood". Lithgow shows a beneficence of feeling for an aging actor that perhaps he fears will happen to himself as he ages on stage and screen.
I think that if you like John Lithgow's acting, you'll enjoy this book. It's not a long book but an all encompassing work on his actor's life.
10 von 10 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Intimate and Wholly Readable
23. September 2011
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe|Amazon Vine™ Rezension
(Was ist das?)
Many of us, I'm told, have dreams about holding long, intimate conversations with famous people and becoming their indispensable confidants. John Lithgow's book approximates that effect, and it's doubly spellbinding because his real, personal voice is so different from the loopy or far-gone characters he so often realizes on film, stage or television.
Here are John's formative years laid bare for conideration. There are funny showbiz anecdotes, like the time he lowered a stage backdrop onto Marcel Marceau's head, or the time an aroused dog attacked his leg as he was trying to make time with an influential casting director. All that is ticket-of-entry stuff, the kinds of war stories passed around a back table at Sardi's.
What comes across more indelibly, though, is the weird cocktail of emotions that propel a good actor forward -- ego and neediness, bravado and melancholy, and how they both marry an actor to the world and separate him. John is unstinting on that score, and also on his relationship with family. He makes you understand what a psychically rough business it is, and how scarred the survivors become.
This book is as close as most of us will ever come to having a complex, nuanced actor take you into his confidence and show you around behind his eyes. It is as if you are sitting down for a long, languid long-haul overseas flight and discover that your seatmate is John Lithgow; you have hours to kill, the bar cart is open, and he doesn't mind talking. What an unforgettable flight that would be, and what a book this is.
Here are John's formative years laid bare for conideration. There are funny showbiz anecdotes, like the time he lowered a stage backdrop onto Marcel Marceau's head, or the time an aroused dog attacked his leg as he was trying to make time with an influential casting director. All that is ticket-of-entry stuff, the kinds of war stories passed around a back table at Sardi's.
What comes across more indelibly, though, is the weird cocktail of emotions that propel a good actor forward -- ego and neediness, bravado and melancholy, and how they both marry an actor to the world and separate him. John is unstinting on that score, and also on his relationship with family. He makes you understand what a psychically rough business it is, and how scarred the survivors become.
This book is as close as most of us will ever come to having a complex, nuanced actor take you into his confidence and show you around behind his eyes. It is as if you are sitting down for a long, languid long-haul overseas flight and discover that your seatmate is John Lithgow; you have hours to kill, the bar cart is open, and he doesn't mind talking. What an unforgettable flight that would be, and what a book this is.
4 von 4 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
articulate and unflinching
6. August 2011
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe|Amazon Vine™ Rezension
(Was ist das?)
John Lithgow's autobiography is different from many(many) autobiographies. Mr Lithgow looks back and tells the reader the story of his life as he was an old friend, catching you up on what has happened since you have last seen him. He doesn't act as if he is so important, the world would fall apart without him. He sees his faults and freely admits to the mistakes he has made. He's not a name dropper although a few times there are real people who pass through his life. He does admit to many affairs during his first marriage, but it's not like "I slept with this one, that one and the other one". He doesn't try to lay the blame on his first wife or his parents or anyone but himself. I have always liked him as an actor, but I was especially impressed with the way he treated his family in the book. Many people, not just actors, will lay the blame at somebody else's feet. It is refreshing to see someone who can accept his part in his life.
You can (and do) learn many things about John Lithgow, the actor and the human, in this book. He talks of his parents, how his father Arthur Lithgow was a producer of Shakespeare plays, the pain of losing his first child, the confusion he felt when trying to decide between Liv Ullman and his first wife.
But more than a retelling of Mr Lithgow's life story, more than just a collection of "I worked here with this person" is the deep abiding love Mr Lithgow has for his parents, especially for his father. The book opens with Mr Lithgow's father hanging on to his life. Mr Lithgow steps in (as he said he was "the logical choice" because he was not working at the time) to help take care of his aging parents. I have known too many people that "ditch" their sick ones when the going gets a little bit ugly not to appreciate what a great trait this is in a person.
To a certain extent, the book is sort of a long goodbye to his father. Written with love and affection, the book gives the sense of how it was to grow up in the Lithgow household - and it sounds as if it were a very good time (most of the time).
If you like John Lithgow, definitely read this biography. You will feel as if you are rediscovering a close friend. If you are a fan of autobiographies, read this book so you have a great example of how an autobiography should be written. I recommend this book highly to anybody, really. It is very well written. So if you want a good intelligent read (it's a fairly quick read), read this book. It is great.
You can (and do) learn many things about John Lithgow, the actor and the human, in this book. He talks of his parents, how his father Arthur Lithgow was a producer of Shakespeare plays, the pain of losing his first child, the confusion he felt when trying to decide between Liv Ullman and his first wife.
But more than a retelling of Mr Lithgow's life story, more than just a collection of "I worked here with this person" is the deep abiding love Mr Lithgow has for his parents, especially for his father. The book opens with Mr Lithgow's father hanging on to his life. Mr Lithgow steps in (as he said he was "the logical choice" because he was not working at the time) to help take care of his aging parents. I have known too many people that "ditch" their sick ones when the going gets a little bit ugly not to appreciate what a great trait this is in a person.
To a certain extent, the book is sort of a long goodbye to his father. Written with love and affection, the book gives the sense of how it was to grow up in the Lithgow household - and it sounds as if it were a very good time (most of the time).
If you like John Lithgow, definitely read this biography. You will feel as if you are rediscovering a close friend. If you are a fan of autobiographies, read this book so you have a great example of how an autobiography should be written. I recommend this book highly to anybody, really. It is very well written. So if you want a good intelligent read (it's a fairly quick read), read this book. It is great.
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