Rating: 3 Out of 5 Stars
When I heard about this book being published I was intrigued.
Dirty Dancing was one of the soundtracks to my senior year of high school.
Prom's theme was "The Time Of Our Life."
It was a very iconic movie and pretty much came out of nowhere.
I also had watched Jennifer Grey on Dancing With The Stars.
So of course I wanted to read this book.
I will try not to give too much away in this review.
I wasn't aware Jennifer Grey's parents were famous.
(Think 'old Hollywood' here.) That pretty much set up for
(Think 'old Hollywood' here.) That pretty much set up for
me that she didn't 'just happen' to get into show business.
She went to private schools, spoke fluent French and her parents
were friends with a lot of famous people and she met many other
actors that would become famous in the future.
(Lots of name-dropping in this book!)
What I didn't know was the difficulty she had in getting acting jobs.
It was not easy street for her. And then of course the whole
'nose job' thing happened.
I had also heard that she and Patrick Swayze did not get along,
so I wanted to read her take on that as well. The chapter on Dirty Dancing
was very interesting. The small amount of time they filmed it in and it
wasn't even summer!!!
Another shocker for me (which it I guess it shouldn't have been because
I was alive during this time of course...probably just not paying attention)
was that Jennifer was in a serious relationship with her co-star,
Matthew Broderick from 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' in which she played his
sister in the movie. I also did not know about their horrific car accident
while they were on vacation in Ireland.
It was very interesting to read about Jennifer from a young age until present time.
I was a little shocked at the end of the book. She has a very nice epilogue and
(poem?) at the very end called 'The Ride Home' which I want to print out because it really sums up how fast time moves. It is spot on.
I gave the book a 3 out of 5 just because I thought I would like her more than I did.
Maybe it was because of the time period she grew up in, (she's 12 years older than myself) the drugs, drinking, jumping into relationships and neediness?
I give her a lot of credit for putting her life story out there and being very in-depth!
(There are some things that I'm how on earth did you know this happened on such & such a day and the vivid memory of it?!?!)
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