Lewis Jones

Finally, a celebrity memoir worth reading

Anjelica Huston recounts her interesting childhood, often beautifully, in A Story Lately Told

The 18-year-old Anjelica Huston, directed by her father, makes her screen début in A Walk with Love and Death as the 14th-century French aristocrat Claudia, fleeing the savagery of the Jacquerie [Getty Images] 
issue 04 January 2014

Unlike many celebrity memoirs, Anjelica Huston’s is worth reading. In her Prologue she writes that as a child she modeled herself on Morticia Addams, and where a lesser celebrity memoirist would go on to say that she eventually played Morticia in a film of The Addams Family, Huston is generous enough not to labour the point.

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