Forever Young
Autor Hayley Millsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iul 2022
Provenind din arhiva vie a unei epoci de aur a cinematografiei, volumul Forever Young ne deschide porțile către o lume care pare astăzi desprinsă dintr-un basm Technicolor. Observăm, prin ochii lui Hayley Mills, cum mirajul Hollywood-ului anilor '60 s-a suprapus peste fragilitatea unei adolescente care încerca să își definească identitatea sub lumina reflectoarelor. Reținem finețea cu care autoarea descrie trecerea de la peisajul auster al Marii Britanii postbelice la universul vibrant creat de Walt Disney, cel care i-a fost mentor și arhitect al succesului global. Experiența lecturii este una senzorială; simțim textura platourilor de filmare de la The Parent Trap și emoția brută a unei tinere de paisprezece ani care primește un Oscar special pentru Pollyanna. Stilul narativ este marcat de o onestitate caldă, evitând clișeele nostalgice în favoarea unei introspecții lucide despre ce înseamnă să fii „copilul preferat al lumii” în timp ce cauți propria maturitate. Pe raftul de artă, alături de Home de Julie Andrews, acest album memorialistic se distinge prin perspectiva unică a unui copil-vedetă care a reușit să navigheze sistemul studiourilor fără a-și pierde spiritul critic. Dacă în Reel Tears, Beverly Washburn explorează experiența actorului copil prin prisma versatilității dramatice, Hayley Mills pune accentul pe dualitatea dintre imaginea publică inocentă și realitatea complexă a unei familii de artiști. Deși autoarea a explorat tensiunea și suspansul în alte scrieri precum Ascent, în Forever Young ea revine la o voce confesională, plină de umor și vulnerabilitate. Este o cronică despre faimă, dar mai ales despre curajul de a crește într-un mediu care își dorea ca ea să rămână, pentru totdeauna, tânără.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 153870420X
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 138 x 208 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
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Descriere
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *
What happens when a girl tries to grow up in a world where everyone wants her to remain a child?
Hayley Mills's teenage decade in Hollywood produced some of the era's greatest family movies: classics like Pollyanna, The Parent Trap and In Search of the Castaways, and in Britain the acclaimed Whistle Down the Wind. Overnight, Hayley became a teen idol and a household name.
In Forever Young Hayley takes us back to a bygone era, charting a journey from her carefree childhood in post-war Britain, growing up in the shadow of her famous theatrical family, to being propelled into the Technicolor boomtown of 1960s Hollywood, where she was mentored to stardom by Walt Disney himself. With characteristic warmth, honesty and humour, Hayley finally shares her own coming-of-age story - a tale of incredible twists of fate and fortune.
Recenzii
As charming on the page as she's ever been on the screen. Her memoir touches on growing up in a family of performers, thoughtfully considers life as a child star, and finds honest, often very funny, ways to examine what it means to live in and around the spotlight . . . Delightful
A greatly enjoyable and eye-opening memoir: a showbusiness chronicle which proves equal parts celebration and cautionary tale . . . Forever Young is an unexpected treat: a brave and revealing memoir with nary a dull passage
With a novelistic eye for detail and a disarming sense of humor, Mills illuminates her extraordinary past while evoking the lost empire of mid-20th-century Hollywood . . . The result is a luminous work commensurate with the unforgettable movies that made Mills an icon
A natural storyteller, as so many actors are, Mills takes us on that wide-eyed 12-year-old's journey . . . If you loved those Disney movies, or just want to get a sense of what life was like in a Hollywood very different from how it is today, Forever Young is a pleasure. One of its joys is watching Mills grow up on the page, learning to love her craft
Hayley's insights into Disney and the interaction between Disney and Hayley and the Mills family are worth the price of admission . . . You'll likely love reading this behind-the-scenes account of what our Hayley was really up to during her formative years
The iconic star of Pollyanna and The Parent Trap recalls her rise to stardom, her experiences on set, and her friendship with Walt Disney in this endearing memoir . . . A warm-hearted peek behind the curtain at youthful fame and filmmaking in the 1960s
Child star Mills's charming and eloquent walk down memory lane is a fascinating study of moviemaking in 1960s Britain and the United States . . . Movie buffs will be riveted by Mills's behind the scenes tales
This memoir by the English actress who rose to fame as a child star for Disney is rather like a Disney movie: enchanting, entertaining and only fleetingly dark
Hayley writes frankly and cogently about her life, her experiences . . . The reader is also treated to the behind the scenes of the movie making process . . . A must read for the Hayley Mills fan, but it is also a salient, relevant chronicle of an actor's life - not only a life against the backdrop of a busy movie making career but a life where conflicts musts be addressed and resolved
Refreshingly clear-eyed