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Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $25.70
Manufacturer: San Val
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From her fame as the Oscar-winning actress who uttered the famous line in Moonstruck, "I know who I am," to her lauded role as Mrs. Madrigal, the landlord of indeterminate gender in Tales of the City, to being the cousin of presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, Olympia Dukakis has captured the imagination of a broad audience. Known for her straightforward talk, her lack of pretension, and her ongoing quest to explore ever more aspects of herself and her art, she is a role model to women of all ages.
Olympia Dukakis's award-winning role in Moonstruck made her a household name, but before that overnight success came twenty-eight years of hard work. For nineteen of those years, she was an integral part of running the Whole Theatre Company in Montclair, New Jersey, while she and her husband raised their three children. She managed to "have it all" -- career, family, home -- before having it all became fashionable (even if she did root for the wrong team at her sons' soccer games -- "We're in the blue shirts, Mom"). She also managed to care for her aging mother, who developed Alzheimer's and moved into the family home, completing Olympia's three-generation family.
In Ask Me Again Tomorrow, this internationally renowned film and stage star reveals her struggle to assimilate as a first-generation Greek-American, her long alienation from her mother and how that finally resolved itself, her battles with addiction and her volatile personal relationships, and the efforts it took for her to overcome all of this and achieve excellence in her professional calling. A story told with honesty, humor, and the sincere desire to be shared, Ask Me Again Tomorrow is more than a celebrity memoir -- it's a book that will endure.
During a career that has spanned more than forty years, Olympia Dukakis has worked as an actress, director, producer, teacher, and activist. She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the New York Film Critics Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award, and the Golden Globe Award for her work in the Norman Jewison film Moonstruck. A highly sought-after lecturer on women's issues, on living with osteoporosis (her own) and other health issues, Olympia resides in New York City with her husband, actor Louis Zorich. They have three children, Christina, Peter, and Stefan, and two granddaughters, Isabella and Sofia.
Reviews
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-01-22
Summary: "Honest, moving account of an actress who became an overnight star after 28 years"
Heard ASK ME AGAIN TOMORROW--read and narrated by
Olympia Dukakis, the actress who became an overnight success
in MOONSTRUCK (after 28 years of hard work).
Dukakis is brutally honest in telling her story . . . in doing so, I got
a feel for what it was like growing up as a Greek-American and, also,
about the difficulties she faced in helping to run The Whole Theater
Company in Montclair, New Jersey, for 19 years.
I also was moved by her tale of alimentation from and eventual
reconciliation with her mother, who eventually developed
Alzheimer's and had to be cared for by Dukakis and her family.
There's humor in the story, too . . . she tells of the time when
her Oscar was stolen and how she eventually made over $9,900
as a result of the theft . . . in addition, I was laughing out loud
when I heard how she "borrowed" a cat to make some
money from a commercial . . . all was going well until
her mother walked in and asked, "Where'd you get that?" A
quick response saved the day: "She always forgets!"
This is one book that I'm glad to have heard rather than
read, largely because of Dukakis' outstanding narration . . . it
left me looking forward to Part 2 of this fascinating woman's
life, which seems to have been promised by the subtitle:
A LIFE IN PROGRESS.
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2003-09-19
Summary: "Fascinating Woman"
I don't usually read many biographies but enjoyed this one...Olympia is a fascinating woman.
Reading her accounts of her childhood, her honesty about the
problems with her mother and about finding herself was not only
interesting but made me wish we were friends.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2003-09-08
Summary: "Beautiful"
She is a beautiful woman and that is a beautiful book. Truly inspiring, this isn't the story of an "overnight success". Olympia deals with alot of adversity, both from outside and her own inner struggles. A surprisingly meaty book. The last few chapters actually had me crying.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2003-08-26
Summary: "A Memoir In Progress"
I'll admit that I haven't seen very many of the films that Olympia Dukakis has performed in. If I hadn't received a complimentary copy of this book from HarperCollins (there's my interests declared), I would probably not even have thought about picking up this volume. But pick it up I did, although I was worried for a bit. The quotes on the back cover were ominous: most of them seemed to be compliments from her Hollywood friends explaining how wonderful she was, but paying only lip-service to the book itself. The introduction and prologue are similarly worrying in that Dukakis repeated states that she didn't want to write an autobiography and that she doesn't really know who she is from day to day (hence the title of the book). But fortunately, while this wasn't the best celebrity memoir I've read, it's certainly entertaining enough.
The memoir begins with Dukakis recalling her Academy Award nomination (and win) for her portrayal of Rose Castorini in "Moonstruck". After covering this period of her life, she jumps back to her early childhood and spends a lot of time dealing with what it meant to be a first generation Greek-American. She details some of her early acting work, although much of it has a vaguely superficial feel to it. Towards the end of the book, the sections dealing with her more recent thoughts, she outlines her religious views, which (and I'm not quite sure I picked up on all the details) seem to revolve around the idea of a female goddess. Her religious thoughts and meditations obviously mean a great deal to her, although I'm not sure she quite conveyed why they have such a huge impact on her. She merely tells us how important these things are to her and asserts their relevance repeatedly, but we don't really get to see the impact for ourselves.
Dukakis has a love for the theatre, and most of her book discusses various roles she's played both on and off stage. Helping to run a local theatre gives her a unique perspective on the business and the art, so it makes for quite interesting reading when she discusses how difficult it was for them to make ends meet. She keeps coming back to her theatre, time and time again, and her enthusiasm for her subject is contagious.
The one thing that struck me was that Dukakis didn't quite seem to know how personal she wanted to be. She included some very intimate details, but provided almost no elaboration or context. She mentions a couple of suicide attempts in her early adulthood, but doesn't really explain what brought this depression on other than a few family-related stresses. She discusses having an open marriage, and then closes the subject after a couple of paragraphs. Most stories or thoughts of this nature tend to have their beginning, middle and end all take place within the same page, and then are never discussed again. I honestly do not blame her for not wishing to delve too deeply into what are obviously painful or personal subjects, but I do wonder why she wanted to include them in the first place.
This is a fairly slender book. It clocks in at just under two hundred pages, and has suspiciously wide margins. This makes it a fairly quick read for anyone interested in what Olympia Dukakis has to say. Dukakis has an unfortunate habit of telling rather than showing, and it contributes to the feeling that we have more a collection of facts here than a warm, human story. Still, I can't complain too much; I knew nothing about her when I began this book, but the writing style kept me reading the whole way through. She seems like a fascinating person underneath it all, but we never really feel as though she has taken the reader into her confidence.
Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2003-08-18
Summary: "Not Good Enough"
I admit I am not an actor or an Olympia Dukakis fan but I was curious about this book. She drew me in by going for what most of us know her by--her Oscar for Moonstruck. But the book was too vague in so many places she brushed over her family life with generalities like I was so busy. She just says I got a role in this play but didn't say how she went about it, who she called, who she knew or who helped her. I was disappointed in the ending and her experiences with the ashrams. Those experiences were the ones she really wanted to share to attempt to inspire other women. I enjoyed reading about her Greek heritage in the beginning of the book, much much more.