Anthony newley biography book
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Before working with spirits, Joellyn St. Pierre spent over twenty years in theater, performing in seven Broadway productions, including A Chorus Line and Pippin. While many of her friends suffered from AIDS, she studied death and dying, which led her to another twenty years as a death midwife, communing with unresponsive patients.
A lifelong spiritual aspirant, she learned the ancient Greek culture's rich history of communing with the dead beneath the mentorship of Dr. Raymond Moody and has also studied with the medium James Van Praagh. After a short sabbatical, St. Pierre experienced an event on the winter solstice of 2017 that led her back to spiritual work.
St. Pierre now resides in Virginia Beach with her husband, Richard, and their three dogs, Bodhi, Leela, and Nestor. With a passion for reading and education, she is always learning something new. She intends to travel more once teleportation is invented.
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Review by Annabel
The children of celebrity couples inevitably have a hard time growing up, especially when their parents split. You need only think of the late Carrie Fisher, daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher as a prime example. Carrie was canny and secure enough in her writing which was later transformed into a book and followed by other volumes of memoir. We all felt for Carrie, sympathised with her and her health issues, yet we really needed to read all about those behind the scenes life with the stars too. Carrie milked it, and we loved her for it, and it grew to become about her rather than her parents.
Alexander Newley has a similar yet completely different tale to tell. The son of Joan Collins and Anthony Newley, he has become an artist, and has poured all his angst and insecurities into his paintings. Quartet, his publisher is to be congratulated on producing this superb volume: he has written a memoir about his growing up, including more than twenty of h
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Unaccompanied Minor: A Memoir
Born with a famous name to an unhappy marriage, Alexander Newley is the son of the Hollywood stars Joan Collins and Anthony Newley. Their life was one of almost unparalleled privilege and glamour but under the glossy veneer there was trouble: drugs, infidelity, insecurity and emotional trauma. Both Joan and Anthony were infantilised after being thrust into the spotlight so young, rendering them ill-equipped to care for Alexander and his sister Tara when they were born. This book, written with humour and compassion, tells the story of Alexander's nomadic childhood; the disintegration of his parents' marriage; and his battle to make sense of the past. It is also a meditation on art, identity and inheritance, and a portrait of London and Hollywood during the swinging sixties and the seventies. Complementing Alexander's vivid and razor-sharp prose are more than twenty of his own artworks depicting the people who played a pivotal role in his early years