Most of us haven’t lived enough to fill one memoir, let alone two, but then again most of us have not lived the life of Anjelica Huston, the Academy Award-winning actress and daughter of late legendary director John Huston.
Huston set out to write a book about her life, but it started to become a “tome” at 900-plus pages in length, she said with a laugh during a recent interview, so she was advised by her agent to do two books.
Her second and newest memoir, aptly titled “Watch Me,” begins with her start in Hollywood, and just seven pages in, she gets to the “juicy” stuff, she admits, the start of her 17-year-relationship with one of the biggest stars at the time, Jack Nicholson.
‘Instantly in love’
She was 21 and had just been living in California for about two months, she said, when her stepmother brought her along to a party at Nicholson’s house.
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On the story behind the title of her new memoir, “Watch Me”
“I guess I was about 28, 29 years old, and I’d been dabbling around the outskirts of show business for some time, doing little parts here and there. … And I was at a party, and the director Tony Richardson was there, with whom I’d worked years before … and he said, ‘Oh, Anjelica, come over here. Sit on my lap, poor little you. You’re never going to do anything with your life. You have so much talent and so little to show for it.’ And I looked at him with love and just a little bit of hate, and I thought, ‘Watch me.’ ”
And we’ve been watching her and loving her on the big and small screen ever since!
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