Adrienne Barbeau Alert!

[AngryAmish]

"The Fog" is on SciFi.

That is all.

[swag]

1. Gotta admit, I thumbed through her new memoir the other day.

Looks like a nice kiss-and-tell, complete with spiritual enlightenment.

[AngryAmish]

2. Tell me more about this memoir

I had not heard.

[swag]

5. Okay. I'm no expert on the book, but

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786716371/ref=pd_kar_gw_1/002-3502952-1852040?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Barbeau hits 60 fabulously in this straightforward, muscularly written memoir of the acting life. The Maude star proves herself a writer with flair, as well as a passionate singer, though she gained fame as a stage actress in New York City once she left her San Jose, Calif., home at age 19 in 1964. The daughter of Armenian parents, Barbeau was often typecast in ethnic parts thanks to her dark, bosomy good looks; working as a go-go girl, she got her first break in Fiddler on the Roof. After the nude musical Stag Movie and the hit Grease, Barbeau flew to L.A. to audition for Norman Lear's '70s spinoff to All in the Family, Maude, starring Bea Arthur. To Barbeau's astonishment, she was hired after an extensive search to play Maude's feminist daughter, Carole, and she stayed for all six years the show ran. Suddenly a recognizable star, she dated a string of sexy men including Burt Reynolds; she married director John Carpenter, who cast her in his forgettable suspense films. Barbeau found happiness in a second marriage with Billy Van Zandt, and motherhood, with twins, at 51. Endearingly, Barbeau never considered herself a sex symbol and only wanted to be loved for her singing. (May)

Book Description

Adrienne Barbeau never set out to be a sex symbol and she never intended to become the poster girl for women over 50 having babies, but both those stories and a lot more are detailed in this witty, revealing memoir of the Tony-nominated actress.

This book covers Adrienne's early years in New York (“No one said Mafia out loud in those days. There was always the fear you wouldn’t live to say anything else.”), to starring on Broadway in Grease (“Alexander Cohen swore the only way we’d win a Tony was over his dead body”). She tells tales about her two hit television series (Maude and Carnivale), her many television and feature films (The Fog, Escape from New York, Cannonball Run, Swamp Thing, Back to School, Creepshow), her singing career (“Doc Severinson and the band had been in the audience during my nude foray off-Broadway in Stag Movie”), her romance with Burt Reynolds, her marriage to director John Carpenter, and marrying a much younger man and giving birth to twins at age 51.

[mr blur]

7. "forgettable suspense films"?

bloody cheek!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. She's two years younger than I am....my dear AngryAmish.....

I went to high school with her....

She was into drama then, too.....

I wasn't surprised to see her go far......

:hi:

[ForrestGump]

8. I wish I'd gone to high school with her

:D

Hubba hubba

[Ryano42]

4. I SO wanted to ber her Swamp Thing...

:9

[GalleryGod]

6. A.B. !? Yes!

[6000eliot]

9. We used to call her "Adrienne Barbells."

[ceile]

10. Saw it yesterday...

for the first time. I love her voice!