70's superstar Ali MacGraw recounts her life story in 1991’s ‘Moving Pictures: An Autobiography’ with humor, graciousness, and a dose of new-age introspection.
In a different memoirist’s hands, all these glitzy tales could veer into pretentiousness. But MacGraw is so honest about her insecurities, so self-deprecating and truthful about her muddled motives, that you simply cheer her on. Like when the “wacko” Salvador Dali requested to draw her, and she found herself naked in his studio, desperate to look “cool.”
“This resolve came slightly unglued when I saw with horror that Dali was crawling under the table separating us,” she writes. "Suddenly, down on the floor, out of my sight, I felt him begin to suck my toes. I managed to mutter something about having to leave to walk the dog and, after throwing on all my clothes, slid out of there without betraying that I found this at all out of the ordinary.”MacGraw seemed to be floating through life.
That night, MacGraw embarked on “one of the great drunks” of her life. “I…slept through the film, and woke only long enough to throw myself fully clothed, high heels and all, into the swimming pool,” she writes. “I remember, too, thinking that I was behaving just as Zelda Fitzgerald, one of my earlier idols, might have done. I spent the night in the master bedroom of that house. And I never left.”
Instantly, she was the hip, It-girl partner of the high-flying Evans, “a survivor with style,” who generously folded his “little hippie” into his extravagant world. “I had never seen the likes of how he lived — the luxury of it,” she writes. “It did not seem real to me, not then, not ever.
The two were married in 1969, and it was Evans who cast her as the doomed Jennifer Cavilleri in 1970’s blockbuster weepyAs MacGraw notes, she was totally unprepared for what followed. “I was so crazy about being popular,” she writes, “that I would go to outrageous lengths to be sure that every single person in a room liked me.”in London, MacGraw found there was one person even “Miss Hollywood Charm” could not win over.
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