Volume two is also entertaining and well written. If Dad dominated one, Jack Nicholson is the star of two, not surprisingly. He comes across extremely well - talented, kind, generous, a bit mercurial, not very faithful but basically decent. Huston also dated Ryan O'Neal in this period - his reviews are more mixed: could be charming and decent, but also violent... he thumped Huston once.
The first part of this book was the most compelling - Hollywood in the seventies, hanging with Jack and Ryan and the others, getting caught up in the Roman Polanski case (she's quite generous to Polanski), doing modelling shoots, occasionally seeing dad.
The book becomes less interesting, surprisingly, once Huston becomes an actor. The narrative is more "this happened and that happened" and her later partners are less interesting. I totally had no idea she directed. It's all well written though. She's had a wonderful career and charmed life but talks a lot about the people she's lost in the latter portion of the book.
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