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The Best Celebrity Memoirs to Read This Year: From Al Pacino to Lisa Marie Presley
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Al Pacino opens up about his upbringing and life in Hollywood like never before in a new memoir “Sonny Boy,” now available to order on Amazon.
The legendary 83 year-old actor, known for his roles in iconic films such as “The Godfather” trilogy, “Scarface” and “Panic in Needle Park,” writes about his childhood in the South Bronx, including his time at New York’s storied High School of Performing Arts, his formative years in the the city’s theater scene throughout the ’60s and ’70s and finally his big Hollywood break.
Pacino’s book follows a long list of celebrity memoirs that have come out recently, such as Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough’s “From Here to the Great Unknown,” which is already a No. 1 bestseller after releasing this week. Also on the list: Barbra Streisand’s “My Name Is Barbra,”Jada Pinkett Smith‘s “Worthy” and Britney Spears‘ “The Woman in Me.”
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The top 25 most compelling Hollywood autobiographies – ranked!
25. A Story Lately Told (2013) and Watch Me (2014) by Anjelica Huston
The two volumes of Anjelica Huston’s autobiography are a shrewd account of her life with wry comments on the alpha-males in it, including her father John Huston and longtime boyfriend Jack Nicholson.
24. Little Girl Lost (1990) by Drew Barrymore
She published this at 15 years old and like so many movie autobiographies, the title is a pre-emptive ironic twist on whatever the author is most famous for – in Drew Barrymore’s case, a child-acting star turn in Steven Spielberg’s classic ET, and then falling prey to substance abuse. As she says: “I had my first drink at age nine, began smoking marijuana at 10, and at 12 took up cocaine.”
23. The Lonely Life: An Autobiography (1962) and This ’n That (1987) by Bette Davis
Bette Davis published this autobiography in the 60s, at the end of her great period, and updated it in the 1980s – after her daughter BD Hyman published a Mommie Dearest-type memoir of her – detailing her life and times, with true leading-lady hauteur rising above the general awfulness and the fallout from four fraught marriages.
22. My Story (1959) by Mary Astor
This bestseller from the golden-age legend Mary Astor rec