Huston's memoir chronicles her rise from fashion modeling at age 22 through her development into a popular and Academy Award winning actor.. The book begins with the end of her five year relationship with photographer Bob Richardson, 23 years her senior. There was a stormy seventeen year relationship with Jack Nicholson. At the encouragement of friends but not her father, director John Huston, or Nicholson, she began acting classes. Huston's career in film was lackluster until "Prizzi's Honor" which starred Nicholson and was directed by her father. She ended up with an Academy Award for her supporting role as Maerose Prizzi. After that her career took off and she writes of her work with a string of great directors including Francis Ford Coppola, Wes Anderson, Woody Allen, and many others. She writes lovingly of her father and his death in 1987 and of her first and only marriage to sculptor Robert Graham at age 41. I listened to the audiobook which was an uneven reading by the author.
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