Affective Memories
How Chance and the Theater Saved My Life
Published on 10. April 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
482 pages
978-1-62006-592-1 (ISBN)
Description
This is the riveting, brutally honest story of a man's struggle to make something of himself in the theater. Coming from meager circumstances in the Ozark Mountains, he fights his way up the shaky ladder toward fame. He makes mistakes, goes down blind alleys, fails and succeeds, again and again. But he never quits.
Rising from family alcoholism and dysfunction, Luckinbill takes us on an unforgettable journey from poverty, rejection, and sexual abuse to success on Broadway and in Hollywood. He writes candidly of his part in the social justice revolution of the original hit play and film The Boys in the Band, his roles in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Cocktail, and his TV series The Delphi Bureau. This award-winning actor also tells the story of his four-decade marriage to actress/singer Lucie Arnaz, his journalism, and his Great Americans plays. Through it all, he gains acceptance and forgiveness of his past, and peace and happiness for his future.
It's a captivating portrait of the life of every person who ever fought for an impossible dream, and finally won it. It's a story brimming with fierce empathy for all those who strive to rise, to become better, and who never stop reaching for a goal that is more authentic and finer even than dreams.
A triumphant read!
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
776 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62006-592-1 (9781620065921)
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LAURENCE LUCKINBILL awoke in 1934, as he had planned, on planet earth, in a place called Arkansas, the town of Fort Smith, near the legendary Ozark Mountains. It was a dark and stormy night. What to do? His parents decreed: Catholic School. He was fine there as self-appointed class clown and self-styled slacker. Then the University of Arkansas, where he failed pre-med spectacularly. The U.S. Army and Catholic University of America followed as the night the day. Obviously, there was nothing to do but become an actor. Five beans in his jeans, he hit New York to seek his fortune. At the foot of a skyscraping beanstalk, like Jack, he climbed. What giants did he find? Tee-Vee, The-ater, Picture Shows. From soap opera to Boys In The Band to Star Trek V. Climbed higher. Built and performed four solo plays of Great Americans: Lyndon Johnson, Clarence Darrow, Teddy Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway. A sixty-three year climb for a harvest of beautiful beans:New York Critics Circle Award, Tony Nomination, Emmy Award, ABA Silver Gavel Award, Dramatists Guild Nomination, Children's Book Award, Arkansas Entertainers Hall Of Fame. Meanwhile, back on earth, love and marriage with Lucie Arnaz. She, 28. He, 45. They worked it out. Happily. Raised five children. Now three grandchildren. Learn more at www.laurenceluckinbill.com. Vita Bona Est. Don't let anybody tell you different.