Lucky Me: My Life With--and Without--My Mom, Shirley MacLaine

by Sachi Parker

Overview

Sachi Parker opens up about her unconventional childhood and shares stories from her past as the only child of famed actress Shirley MacLaine.
 
Shirley MacLaine has graced Hollywood with her talent for decades. Yet, as Sachi Parker can attest, being the daughter of a movie star was far from picture-perfect. In Lucky Me, the only child of the Academy Award–winning actress opens up about her unique experiences of growing up with a mother who believed in reincarnation and extraterrestrials—but not necessarily parenthood.
 
Lucky Me is not only Sachi’s personal story but also a compelling snapshot of America in the second half of the twentieth century, from the Rat Pack world of the ‘60s through the free-love ‘70s to the new-age self-absorption of the present. It offers a compelling insight into the politics of Hollywood, where the fight for the spotlight never ends and your fiercest rivals are closer than you think. There are Sachi’s warm and admiring remembrances of legendary actors—Jack Nicholson, Jack Lemmon, Robert Mitchum, her uncle Warren Beatty—as well as acid-sharp portraits of the schemers and buffoons who roam the hills of La-La Land.

Ultimately Lucky Me is a bittersweet love letter to a mother who is at once a universally beloved and larger-than-life figure and yet always seems beyond reach.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592408627
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/03/2013
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sachi Parker is the only child of actress Shirley MacLaine and producer Steve Parker. An accomplished actress herself, Sachi has appeared in theater and films throughout the world. These appearances include Stick, directed by Burt Reynolds, Back to the Future, About Last Night, Peggy Sue Got Married, Riders to the Sea, and Scrooged, and TV shows such as Star Trek: the Next Generation and Equal Justice. Her theater work includes Ladies in Waiting, Pastorale, and The Lulu Plays, which she won a Daramalogue Best Actress award. Parker recently collaborated with co-author Frederick Stroppel (A Brooklyn State of Mind) on a one-woman show about her life, also titled Lucky Me.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

Chapter 1 Humble Beginnings 7

Chapter 2 Of Mockingbrids and Fox Gods 27

Chapter 3 On Location 49

Chapter 4 Charters Towers 65

Chapter 5 From Here to Zagreb 83

Chapter 6 "You're on Your Own Now" 103

Chapter 7 Into The wild 127

Chapter 8 Flight 151

Chapter 9 La Vie Bohème 175

Chapter 10 The Good Doctor 187

Chapter 11 Man in Space 201

Chapter 12 The Acting Bug 223

Chapter 13 "That's George McFly?" 241

Chapter 14 Family Feeling 267

Chapter 15 Domestication 283

Chapter 16 The Lord and the Ring 301

Chapter 17 Don't Take it Personally 319

Chapter 18 Shut Up and Deal 339

Acknowledgments 347

Editorial Reviews

Few lives can claim the rollercoaster swoops and swerves of actress Sachi Parker's.” — 1888pressrelease.com

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