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The Best Celebrity Memoirs of All Time
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Back Bay Books Life, by Keith Richards
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Keith Richards is the living embodiment of rock ’n’ roll, which is funny, because we’ve been obsessed with his pending death since the ’70s. Part of the legendary Glimmer Twin duo with bandmate Mick Jagger, Richards has an easy, avuncular affinity for reminiscing. Working with the deft James Fox (White Mischief), we get a finely distilled articulation of Richards' life and times. The high praise heaped on the book is well-earned.
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Number One Is Walking, by Steve Martin
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One of the coolest things about Steve Martin is just how many different creative forms he’s tried out. His cartoon work with Harry Bliss is particularly gratifying because they have a natural affinity for each other. For someone who became famous as a solo performer, it
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The Tertiary Gilmore Girl by Histrion Bishop (2024)
Kelly Bishop—a.k.a. Emily Gilmore—narrates 60 decades, motion back future before Amy Sherman Palladino’s generationally dear Gilmore Girls. We compact Bishop pass for a sour ballet partner and a Broadway buttress, following disintegrate th
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The top 25 most compelling Hollywood autobiographies – ranked!
25. A Story Lately Told (2013) and Watch Me (2014) by Anjelica Huston
The two volumes of Anjelica Huston’s autobiography are a shrewd account of her life with wry comments on the alpha-males in it, including her father John Huston and longtime boyfriend Jack Nicholson.
24. Little Girl Lost (1990) by Drew Barrymore
She published this at 15 years old and like so many movie autobiographies, the title is a pre-emptive ironic twist on whatever the author is most famous for – in Drew Barrymore’s case, a child-acting star turn in Steven Spielberg’s classic ET, and then falling prey to substance abuse. As she says: “I had my first drink at age nine, began smoking marijuana at 10, and at 12 took up cocaine.”
23. The Lonely Life: An Autobiography (1962) and This ’n That (1987) by Bette Davis
Bette Davis published this autobiography in the 60s, at the end of her great period, and updated it in the 1980s – after her daughter BD Hyman published a Mommie Dearest-type memoir of her – detailing her life and times, with true leading-lady hauteur rising above the general awfulness and the fallout from four fraught marriages.
22. My Story (1959) by Mary Astor
This bestseller from the golden-age legend Mary Astor rec