Lessons In Becoming Myself
(Ellen Burstyn)
Oneof the great performers of our time recounts her personal, professional, andspiritual lives, from her troubled childhood in Detroit to her triumphant filmcareer as an award-winning film and stage actressIn fact,her search for spiritual equilibrium is at the very root of this soulful book. One of the great performers of our time recounts herpersonal, professional, and spiritual lives, from her troubled childhood inDetroit to her triumphant film career as an award-winning film and stageactress.Burstyn,best remembered for her roles in the films The Exorcist and Alice Doesn't LiveHere Anymore, chronicles the successes of her career on stage and screen, herdifficulties in relating to men, her failures in marriage and her never-endingsearch for self-understanding. Already, inner voices were guiding her acting,but her private life was a shambles, with her second marriage ending in divorcein 1962. Burstyn married again in 1964, and this toxic relationship and theeffects on her of her husband's mental breakdown are the subject of much ofthis work. Among details she provides of her acting career,perhaps the mostrevealing concern her filming of The Exorcist. Born Edna Rae Gilloolly, sheconfronted demons of her own, from her demeaning mother to her psychotic andsadistic husband. Now as one of the most acclaimed and respected actors of hergeneration, the ebullient Burstyn reflects on her life and 40-plus-year career,nimbly tracing the paths she followed, risks she took, mistakes she made, andlessons she learned to assess the price she paid for hard-earned wisdom. Founderingin a violently unstable marriage and still bearing the psychic scars of adamaging childhood, Burstyn applied the same painstaking deliberation to herquest for spiritual guidance, which took her from the heights of the Himalayasto the depths of New York City's homeless shelters. It's a frank and unsparingaccount of her search for personal and professional authenticity, and theconsequences of that struggle.
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