A Fine Romance (A Bestselling Memoir)

A Fine Romance (A Bestselling Memoir)

In this <i>New York Times</i> bestseller, acclaimed actress Candice Bergen “shows how to do a memoir right...The self-possessed, witty, and down-to-earth voice that made Bergen’s first memoir a hit when it was published in 1984 has only been deepened by life’s surprises” (<i>The New York Times Book Review)</i>.<BR><BR>“Candice Bergen is unflinchingly honest” (<i>The Washington Post</i>), and in <i>A Fine Romance</i> she describes her first marriage at age thirty-four to famous French director Louis Malle; her overpowering love for her daughter, Chloe; the unleashing of her inner comic with <i>Murphy Brown</i>; her trauma over Malle’s death; her joy at finding new love; and her pride at watching Chloe blossom.<BR> <BR>In her decidedly nontraditional marriage to the insatiably curious Louis, Bergen takes readers on world travels to the sets where each made films. Pregnant with Chloe at age thirty-nine, this mature primigravida also recounts a journey through motherhood that includes plundering the Warner Bros. costume closets for Halloween getups and never leaving her ever-expanding menagerie out of the fun. She offers priceless, behind-the-scenes looks at <i>Murphy Brown</i>, from caterwauling with Aretha Franklin to the surreal experience of becoming headline news when Dan Quayle took exception to her character becoming a single mother. Bergen tackles familiar rites of passage with moving honesty: the rigors of caring for a spouse in his final illness, getting older, and falling in love again after she was tricked into a blind date.<BR> <BR>By the time the last page is turned, “we’re all likely to be wishing Bergen herself—funny, insightful, self-deprecating, flawed (and not especially concerned about that), and slugging her way through her older years with bemused determination—was living next door” (<i>USA TODAY</i>).