When she first started appearing in films I was not a big fan of Sissy Spacek. It wasn't until much later that I learned to appreciate her talent and her rejection of the "Hollywood Lifestyle." The book begins a bit of family history and her childhood in a small town in East Texas and continues through to her idyllic life in Virginia with her husband of 38 years, movie art director, Jack Fisk. Spacek is generous in acknowledging family and friends who have helped her along the way including her cousin Rip Torn and his wife Geraldine Page, directors Terrance Malek and David Lynch, and many others. While including plenty of humorous anecdotes about her life and career Spacek doesn't gloss over the bad times. Her story of Loretta Lynn coercing her to play in "Coal Miner's Daughter" is great. While she doesn't talk about every film she made I wish she had said more about "'Night, Mother." When Spacek and her husband left L.A. for a Virginia farm the press concluded that she had retired from acting. Instead she chose to become more selective about the films she made while giving her two beautiful daughters a carefree childhood that was similar to what she had growing up. This book is well written and a very interesting look at an intelligent, talented woman.
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