Review: Watch Me: A Memoir

Watch Me: A Memoir by Anjelica Huston
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

First off, is this not the only honest title for an actor's memoir?

Anjelica takes us from growing up Huston to edging carefully into filmwork and torn about her father's leverage. Along with the entrance to Hollywood comes relationships with Jack Nicholson and Ryan O'Neal. Jack is emotionally abusive and Ryan proves physically so. Why Anjelica seems to demand so little decency from her paramours is surprising and unexplored. Her father's tireless, principled, and hard-headed career gets full coverage and allows me to understand the portrayal in "White Hunter Black Heart" (1990). This thinly fictionalized account of the legendary movie director by Clint Eastwood is an interesting shadow of what Anjelica describes. She, of course, adds much detail to her many successful films, like difficult costuming in "The Addams Family" and < a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wit... Witches" as well as working with Wes Anderson and other directors and actors. She has a more settled and healthy relationship with her husband Bob Graham, the Mexican-American sculptor who created the 24-foot-long (7.3 m) arm with a fisted hand suspended by a 24-foot-high (7.3 m) pyramidal framework that is the Monument to Joe Louis. A full and fascinating life, frankly told and of interest to movie fans, for sure. Now, I need to get me a copy of Prizzi's Honor.

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