There Are Worse Things I Could Do
Written by Adrienne Barbeau
Narrated by Adrienne Barbeau
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About this audiobook
Adrienne Barbeau never set out to be a sex symbol and she never planned on giving birth to twins when she was 51 but both those stories and a lot more are detailed in this witty, revealing memoir.
From her early years as one of the first Go-Go girls in New York (“No one said Mafia out loud in those days. There was always the fear you wouldn’t live to say anything else.”) to starring on Broadway in Grease (“Alexander Cohen swore the only way we’d win a Tony was over his dead body”) Adrienne tells tales about her two hit television series (Maude and Carnivale), her many television and feature films (The Fog, Escape From New York, Cannonball Run, Swamp Thing, Creepshow), and her singing career (“Doc Severinson and the band had been in the audience during my nude foray off-Broadway in Stag Movie”).
With humour and fearlessness, she shares her romance with a superstar, her marriage to a famous film director, her marriage to a much younger man and her successful battle with infertility.
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Adrienne Barbeau
As a film, television, and Broadway star, ADRIENNE BARBEAU 's career spans forty years. Genre fans know her from The Fog, Creepshow, Swamp Thing, and Escape From New York. She was nominated for a Tony for creating the role of Rizzo in “Grease” and starred as Maude's daughter in the hit series Maude and as Ruthie the Snake Dancer in HBO's Carnivale. She is the author of the best-selling memoir There Are Worse Things I Could Do.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Adrienne Barbeau is not only a gifted actress and singer, but a gifted writer as well. There is proof in the excerpts from her journals starting in fifth grade and her ninth grade term paper., "To Be Or Not To Be: Acting as a Vocation". She writes with honesty, strength, humility and humor. This book will make you laugh, cry and just root for the skinny little girl with glasses and bushy hair that became a beautiful woman, mother, wife and a darned good actress.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5As innocent and naive as she appears in her memoir, after all the research I have done on Hollywood, I find her account very unbelievable..
When you KNOW about the rampant pedophilia and Satanism it is telling that she worked and was friends with all of the major players
99% of Hollywood “stars” got there because they sold their souls to the devil.. These people are not who or what they appear..
She openly admits to sleeping with everyone she dated and her choices of friends, husbands and movies is a major red flag for me.. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Often called a Scream Queen or Queen of the Bs, Adrienne Barbeau has risen above and beyond the boxes people want to put her in. I’ve always been a fan of her work, particularly Creepshow (Call me Billie, everyone does!), Escape From New York, The Fog and the wonderful Carnivale. Her autobiography breaks her life into chunks that basically relate to the projects she worked on and the men in her life. In the beginning she freely admits that her lifetime of journals were about relationships more than anything. She laughs that almost nothing is noted about her work on the original stage production of Grease, the sit-com Maude or any of her other jobs (and she’s had a lot, it seems she’s never stopped working and I’m really tempted to watch Sons of Anarchy just because she’s in it).Rather than read this with my eyes, I listened to it as an audio because Adrienne narrates it and who better to tell her story? A lot of writers can’t act and a lot of actors can’t write, but she can do both. She’s got a great voice for narrating (The Fog anyone?!). As a person, I think I’d like her, but wouldn’t really relate to her well. She goes in for the woo-woo side of life a bit too much, with psychics and weird healers and believing in ghosts. But aside from that, she’s a very practical person who sets goals and plans to achieve them in logical steps. Acquiring a new manager late in her career, tackling voice lessons, finding an agent, preserving a marriage. All of it done with a clear idea of what she wants. And what she wants is pretty much what she gets. She seems happy, content and challenged which suits her just fine.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Adrienne Barbeau is not only a gifted actress and singer, but a gifted writer as well. There is proof in the excerpts from her journals starting in fifth grade and her ninth grade term paper., "To Be Or Not To Be: Acting as a Vocation". She writes with honesty, strength, humility and humor. This book will make you laugh, cry and just root for the skinny little girl with glasses and bushy hair that became a beautiful woman, mother, wife and a darned good actress.