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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Hardcover, PERFECT, UNOPENED with the genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Memoirs?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Lessons in Becoming Myself'
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conversations.value: a description for a book titled Lessons in Becoming Myself about AudioFile, Portland, Maine with the genre: Arts & Photography, Performing Arts
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conversations.value: Nothing this Tony Award and Oscar winner has played can rival the story of her own life. In a mature yet refreshing voice, the author details the chaotic details of her life--her flight at age 18 from Detroit; three bad marriages, including one to a psycho who stalked her for decades; and her stubborn struggles to make it to the top. She also confesses to having manipulated agents, authors, directors, and studio heads to get her own way. Too much time is spent on her search for her inner being, but one can see that her self-awareness becomes the backbone of her success. M.T.B. &copy; AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright &#169; AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about intoxicating.
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conversations.value: Nothing this Tony Award and Oscar winner has played can rival the story of her own life. In a mature yet refreshing voice, the author details the chaotic details of her life--her flight at age 18 from Detroit; three bad marriages, including one to a psycho who stalked her for decades; and her stubborn struggles to make it to the top. She also confesses to having manipulated agents, authors, directors, and studio heads to get her own way. Too much time is spent on her search for her inner being, but one can see that her self-awareness becomes the backbone of her success. This is also an intoxicating history of life for women in the '50s, '60s, and '70s and their contributions, artistic and otherwise, to that history. M. T. B. &copy; AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright &#169; AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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conversations.value: a description for a book titled Lessons in Becoming Myself about She's, Academy, Award with the genre: Arts & Photography, Performing Arts
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conversations.value: the author's career has encompassed more than forty years on stage, in film, and on television. She's been nominated six times for an Academy Award, winning the Best Actress Oscar in 1974 for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore , as well as a Tony for her performance in Same Time, Next Year. She continues to serve as copresident of the Actors Studio in New York City.
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conversations.value: Lessons in Becoming Myself
  Holding the thick manuscript, I said in awe, "Carlos, that is the single most generous thing I've ever seen anyone do."
  Reading Carlos's brilliant and profound manuscript, I was captivated by his stories, but there was nothing that I wanted to lift whole for the film. But that he was willing to have me do that was a great teaching in how to walk one's path. Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom should be shared, not hoarded. To be called an impeccable warrior by Carlos Castaneda was for me equal to being dubbed a knight by the queen of England.
  By mid-September, I'd returned to New York and the challenge of dealing with the dark forces manifesting in my life. In that period I was probably the only actress in Hollywood who was initiating her own projects. Yet with all the heady success, when I went home to my beautiful house and three-acre garden, I lived in fear for my life. So far, every time Neil appeared there was someone there to protect me. But I lived in terror that someday he would find me alone and kill me.
  My explorations into the feminine hero had led me directly to the work of Carl Jung. He writes about the shadow, the parts of ourselves that we do not want to own, which then manifest outside of us for us to look at and deal with. I wondered if in some shadowy way there was something about myself that I was denying that I had to bring into the light. I read Ego and Archetype by Edward Edinger, a Jungian analyst, and saw that he had a private practice in New York City. I began to see him.
  Neil appeared before 6:00 a.m. shouting outside. Jeff and I were alone. I called the police. Neil broke through the front doors and came up the stairs. Jeff greeted him with a lead pipe in his hands, roaring at him to leave. After ten minutes, Neil asked "to see the kid." He hadn't recognized Jeff. When he asked Jeff what his name was, Jeff answered, "Tom." The police came and took Neil away in handcuffs. I signed the complaint at the police station. Jeff was sick to his stomach and I kept him home from school.
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conversations.value: two more paragraphs. End with the sentence ' We had such a good time that we did a production of Long Day's Journey Into Night at the Alley Theater in Houston and a year later at the Hartford Stage in Connecticut, where Michael had become the artistic director.'.
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conversations.value: It's difficult for an actor to have this experience while making a film because of the interrupted process of filmmaking. It is more likely to happen onstage.
  I was offered the chance to be in Horton Foote's great play The Trip to Bountiful at Theaterfest in Montclair, New Jersey. Even though it wasn't Broadway, I leapt at it because I was ready to test in my work the liberation I was experiencing. I loved working on this role. Horton Foote came to the rehearsals and cried and cried. This was the beginning of our friendship. When we moved the play to the Phoenix Theater Company on the SUNY Purchase campus, Horton brought a director named Michael Wilson to the performance. Soon Michael and I worked together on another of Horton's plays, The Death of Papa. We had such a good time that we did a production of Long Day's Journey Into Night at the Alley Theater in Houston and a year later at the Hartford Stage in Connecticut, where Michael had become the artistic director.
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conversations.value: A Christmas card for 1999. That's me with the big mouth, holding Emily and dog Molly. Tricia is on Jeff's lap. Photo by Paul Undersinger.
  As Sara Goldfarb in Requiem for a Dream, 2000 (three photographs). Copyright © 2000 Artisan Entertainment, Lions Gate Films. All rights reserved.
  Me as Sally in The King of Marvin Gardens. She was one of my favorite characters. Copyright © 1972 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All rights reserved.
  As Chris MacNeil in The Exorcist. Copyright © 1973 Warner Bros., Inc., and Hoya Productions, Inc. All rights reserved. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures.
  ELLEN BURSTYN's career has encompassed more than forty years onstage, in film, and on television. She has been nominated six times for an Academy Award, and won the Best Actress Oscar in 1974 for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, as well as a Tony for her performance in Same Time, Next Year. She is co-president of the Actors Studio.