Bibliograph

Lucky me, my life with--and without--my mom, Shirley MacLaine, Sachi Parker, Frederick Stroppel

Type

Label

Lucky me, my life with--and without--my mom, Shirley MacLaine, Sachi Parker, Frederick Stroppel

Language

eng

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lucky me

Oclc number

825550284

Responsibility statement

Sachi Parker, Frederick Stroppel

Sub title

my life with--and without--my mom, Shirley MacLaine

Summary

Shirley MacLaine's only child shares shocking stories from her out-of-this-world childhood with the famously eccentric and award-winning actressThe only child of MacLaine and her husband of thirty years, Steve Parker, Sachi's surreal childhood began when she was sent to Japan at the age of two to live with her mercurial father and his mistress. She divides her time being raised by a Japanese governess and going back and forth to L.A. to be with her mother, hamming it up on movie sets, in photo shoots, and Hollywood parties. As she gets older and becomes involved in a series of abusive relationships she tries to unravel the mysteries of her childhood and her parents' unconventional marriage

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- Humble beginnings -- Of mockingbirds and Fox gods -- On location -- Charters Towers -- From here to Zagreb -- "You're on your own now" -- Into the wild -- Flight -- La vie bohème -- The good doctor -- Man in space -- The acting buy -- "That's George McFly?" -- Family feeling -- Domestication -- The lord and the ring -- Don't take it personally -- Shut up and deal

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