Description:
Recollections, wisdom, and advice from the beloved entertainer, American icon, mother of eight children, and New York Times bestselling author.
When the Donny and Marie show ended its award-winning run on ABC in 1979, 19-year-old Marie was ready to leave the stage lights for a secretary's life-she had prepared to say "goodbye" to fleeting fame by studying shorthand and typing! Clearly, life took a different turn.
Now, decades later and still a beloved superstar, Marie opens the door to her thoughts on many of her milestones and missteps, both the public and the personal. In a life brimming with a mixture of charm and chaos, blessings and hilarious bungles, victory and vulnerability, Marie recounts for her "family of fans" her greatest successes as well as her most crushing disappointments, career pressures and expectations, marriage and divorce, depression, weight issues, tough choices, honors and awards, and the incredible joys and challenges of raising children. Through it all, Marie has bounced back time and again with unstoppable enthusiasm, resilience, and an unbeatably healthy and positive outlook on life.
In Might as Well Laugh About It Now, she imparts her insights on surviving all of life's roadblocks and detours in a collection of friendly musings and heartening advice about learning to survive- and moving forward-with humor and optimism.
- Author:
- Osmond, Marie
- ISBN:
- 9780451226389
- Format:
- Hardcover
- Pages:
- 305
- Publish Date:
- 03/31/2009
- Publisher:
- New Amer Library
- Language:
- English
Customer Reviews
Rating
Anonymous from Reading, PA, Apr 10, 2009
This woman is amazing no matter what entertainment venue she dabbles in, she excels! She is a television icon of many shows/years, a theatrical star, broadway star, best selling author, a very successful business woman... and she does them all as if that particular venue was all she has ever done. Reading this book, you will feel as though you just had a sit-down conversation with Marie, herself! The stories from her highly successful Dancing With The Stars stint; her incredibly successful doll business; her decades of entertainement success as well as the many super stars that she has worked with; her current success as the toast of Vegas... she dabbles in them all. Don't worry, she does write about her wonderfully successful family and even the recent 50th Anniversary Tour has been included! If you love Marie, you will love her even more after reading this... and believe me, having met this woman many times, I didn't think that would even be possible! LOVE LOVE LOVE MARIE AND THE BOOK!
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