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Other things required no calibration, since the book was Mia Farrow's memoir, What Falls Away (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; 370 pages; $25). An author as hot as Farrow doesn't go on a book tour. Barbara, Oprah and Larry date her up. She was, after all, involved in a show-biz shocker. Four and a half years ago, she discovered that Woody Allen, her lover of 12 years and the father of one of her 14 children (four natural, 10 adopted), was also the lover of her 21-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi. This at a time when Farrow...
...juicy book and a good one. It may even be a bit of a trendsetter. Like Katharine Graham in her recently published autobiography, Personal History, Farrow questions her own passivity in dealing with men and blames herself. Farrow had advantages from the start. She was born to Hollywood royalty (her mother was movie star Maureen O'Sullivan; her father, John Farrow, a director). Among her contemporaries were Candice Bergen and Liza Minnelli. Farrow went on to a major movie career of her own (Rosemary's Baby, The Great Gatsby). She married Frank Sinatra while still in her teens, and, later...
Near the beginning is a charming section on growing up in Hollywood--the elaborate children's parties, the famous and talented who came to her parents' dinners, the ceremonial arrival of the Farrows--nine strong--at the Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd, where the family had its own pew. In such a heady environment, it isn't surprising that Mia's godmother was gossip columnist Louella Parsons or that Charles Boyer lived next door. But celebrity seems to follow her. Her girlhood pet was the real Lassie's grandson. When she retreated to the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh...
...FARROW She portrays herself as the Misunderstood Matriarch in a life-with-Woody memoir...
...addition, much could be inferred about the meaning behind her works by simply listening to Kingston recount her stories using her own intonations and gestures. When she assumed the voice of her mother, she spoke in a soft lilting voice that was vaguely reminiscent of Mia Farrow: "I can't stop working. When I stop working, I hurt. My head, my back, my legs hurt. I get dizzy. I can't stop." However, in speaking as her younger alterego, Kingston acquired an oft-frustrated voice, touched with a confused innocence: "I don't want to hear Wino Ghosts and Hobo...