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Sissy Spacek

Autor(a) de My Extraordinary Ordinary Life

10+ Works 107 Membros 8 Reviews

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Associated Works

O Sol é para Todos (1960) — Narrador, algumas edições78,148 cópias
Carrie (1974) — Narrador, algumas edições14,530 cópias
The Help [2011 film] (2011) 523 cópias
Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter (1976) — Narrador, algumas edições379 cópias
Tuck Everlasting [2002 film] (2002) 222 cópias
Carrie [1976 film] (1976) — Actor — 203 cópias
Four Christmases [2008 film] (2008) 140 cópias
Badlands [1973 film] (1973) — Actor — 110 cópias
Coal Miner's Daughter [1980 film] (1980) — Actor — 108 cópias
The Straight Story [1999 film] (1999) 103 cópias
JFK [1991 film] (1991) — Actor — 100 cópias
In the Bedroom [2001 film] (2002) — Actor — 51 cópias
Get Low [2009 film] (2012) 49 cópias
3 Women [1977 film] (1977) 48 cópias
The Long Walk Home [1990 film] (1990) — Actor — 37 cópias
The Old Man & The Gun [2018 film] (2018) — Actor — 36 cópias
Missing [1982 film] (1982) — Actor — 31 cópias
If These Walls Could Talk [1996 TV movie] (2000) — Actor — 25 cópias
Castle Rock: The Complete First Season (2019) — Actor — 21 cópias
Deadfall [2012 film] (2014) 20 cópias
Big Love: The Complete Fourth Season (2011) — Actor — 16 cópias
The River [1984 film] (1984) — Actor — 15 cópias
Pictures of Hollis Woods [2007 TV movie] (2007) — Actor — 12 cópias
Crimes of the Heart [1986 film] — Actor — 9 cópias
Prime Cut [1972 film] (1972) — Actor — 9 cópias
50 Movies: Swingin' Seventies (2012) — Actor — 8 cópias
Fitzgerald [2002 TV movie] (2002) 6 cópias
Bloodline: Season 1 — Actor — 5 cópias
'night Mother [1986 film] (2010) 4 cópias
Big Love: The Complete Series (2013) — Actor — 4 cópias
Welcome to L.A. [1976 film] (2011) — Actor — 4 cópias
Bloodline: Season 2 — Actor — 3 cópias
Bloodline: Season 3 — Actor — 3 cópias
Raggedy Man (2004) — Actor — 3 cópias
Marie [1985 film] (1987) 3 cópias
Ginger in the Morning [1974 film] (2002) — Actor — 3 cópias
Femme Fatales #68 (Vol. 8 No. 8) (1999) — Featured Artist — 1 exemplar(es)
Trading Mom [1994 film] — Actor — 1 exemplar(es)

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Membros

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Very readable and light memoir/bio on a fascinating and refreshingly honest and open person. Makes me want to go back and watch some of her movies--and I suspect the season will make me watch CARRIE first.
 
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SESchend | outras 7 resenhas | Sep 6, 2017 |
Six-word review: Relatively uninteresting celebrity autobiography. (Four suffice.)

Comments:

The number of celebrity bios I've read over time is probably still under a dozen. I've admired Sissy Spacek's acting, but her self-revelations, although more engaging than several others' (by a lot), is no award winner. Once again I think I'll wait a long while before I read another. I don't even know why I do this to myself.
 
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Meredy | outras 7 resenhas | Feb 26, 2017 |
???1/2 rounded up to 4 (memoirs/autobios are not my thing, so I’m reading out of my box) ?


From a small town in Texas to Hollywood fame to her current life in between Virginia and the movies, this is the life of Sissy Spacek. She grew up as a tap dancing, baton twirling tomboy following her older brothers around in the days when children grew up more free range. She pursued music, convinced she had no acting talent because she never landed a role in a school play, but, as most of us know, she finally ended up as an A list actor for many years. And whatever else you say about Sissy Spacek, she is one of the most brilliant actors of the latter half of the twentieth century, and she was wise enough to get a professional author to write this with her.

I was prepared to like this given her one time connection and kindness to my brother, and some of it I loved, but some of it I only liked, and some got rather repetitive. I was happy to learn about her experiences making a few movies that had a powerful impact on me many years ago, and to learn how she got there and kept herself grounded and out of living and believing the Hollywood hype all the time. In some places, though, she’d lost off a number of names I have never heard of that I didn’t necessarily need to know, and I’d have liked to hear a bit more about her children growing up and a bit less about all of her pets. I also thought that even though she did mention some of the tragedies their family experience, she idealized her childhood quite a bit.

I don’t know if I’d have liked this as much had I read it rather than listened to it.
… (mais)
 
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Karin7 | outras 7 resenhas | Jan 20, 2016 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
10
Also by
48
Membros
107
Popularidade
#180,615
Avaliação
½ 4.3
Resenhas
8
ISBNs
8

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