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As the title indicates, Phillips recounts her life in theater (and radio, TV, and films) from the late 1950s to the early 1990s. She and O'Toole separated around 1976 and divorced in 1979. The earlier part of the book, where O'Toole (as she almost always calls him) figures prominently, was more focused and interesting: a four. The latter part, during which she is married (almost without knowing why) to the younger actor, Robin Sachs, feels too much like a recitation of dates, places, and people,...
Movie geek that I am, I saw Lawrence Of Arabia (the 1962 film) on the teev when I was still in primary school and walked around in a Lawrence daze for days. Gradually I caught up on various Peter O’Toole films and like a handful of brilliant actors that seemed to thrive in the sixties, he had a complete disregard for authority, a bloody-minded insistence on total personal freedom, and a self-destructive streak ten miles wide. Sian Phillips, a powerful actress in her own right, was married to him...
She certainly had to put up with a lot
Phillips writes an enjoyable, anecdote-filled autobiography. It may have been more than a little galling for her, but she has clearly taken the advice that her primary readership will be people interested in a behind the scenes look of the life of her ex-husband Peter O'Toole, and she has structured the book accordingly, opening with an out-of-sequence account of the crucial period in that marriage, when O'Toole was seriously ill, and giving the lion's share of the pages and anecdotes to the 20-...
I ordered this because it was mentioned on the Marzipan group list and after reading the first few pages on Amazon it sounded really interesting.
loved this amazing book! My new mantra in life is "What would Sian do?"
