![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These pages tell a gripping story full of drama, humor, and hardship, offering an intimate look into the singular life of one indefatigable protagonist. Though famous for her achievements as a multi-award winning actor, director, and documentarian, Grant reveals herself to be woman unafraid of continual self-reinvention. He says 'yes' to pamphleteers on the street, the credit card offers stuffing his mailbox and solicitations on the Internet. ![]() takes three simple words uttered by a stranger on a bus'Say yes more'as a challenge and says 'yes' to everything for a year. Whether recalling the traumas of her first marriage to screenwriter Arnold Manoff or sharing entertaining memories of her famous friends-Marlon Brando, Mia Farrow, and Warren Beatty among them-Grant does so with a with a lively, approachable tone. Yes Man is a memoir written by Danny Wallace based upon a year of the authors life. In short vignettes (some chapters are only two pages long), Grant tells a story filled with innumerable twists and turns-from her wayward adolescence as Lyova Haskell Rosenthal to her early successes in the theaters of 1950s New York her 12-year battle on Hollywood’s blacklist to the reclamation of her career in the 1970s, while living in Malibu. Summary: An Academy Award-winning actress and former Vogue It Girl describes. In this wonderful memoir, actor Grant charts her life from a childhood in New York City through her performance in Shampoo and beyond. I said yes to everything : a memoir / Lee Grant. ![]()
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