Ann-Margret Books

I purchased this book when it was first released and being the big Ann-Margret fan that I am loved everything that was in this book.

When Ann-Margret toured with her one woman show in 1983 I had the pleasure of meeting Neal Peters as well as meeting Ann-Margret and Roger Smith. I had Neal, Ann & Roger sign my book.

This book is packed with goodies and excellent photos. It is worth every penny and more.

An excellent book for any Ann-Margret fans' collection.

....oh yes and if you happen to read this Neal, I was the woman who had asked you to give Ann-Margret that red ceramic heart that I had made. I had met her the night before but didn't have it with me at the time so I asked if you could bring it to her backstage and you did. I was also VERY pregnant at the time with my daughter who is now 24 and is a dance teacher/choreographer!

So thanks again for bringing her that heart.
Jamie

Unbelievable movie!! I LOVED It.
Great cast, great story.
Gary Oldman is by far one of the best actors in the world!!!!

This name may not be a big box office hit but wow will it be once you've watched it! Amy Smart is but one of serveral familiar faces to grace this movie. Full of fun, laughs and surprisingly a moral. This is worth buying, it is definetly worth watching at least twice!!

I first found this flick as a movie rental, noting the cast included Gary Oldman, whom I always enjoyed.

What an enjoyable surprise! The film comes to you with a built-in twinkle in it's eye, having a load of fun playing with the viewer. It's like a mature version of Alice in Wonderland, but instead of different creatures, the adventures are focused on people met on the road or in the towns visited.

The film is sprinkled with star cameos. Gary Oldman, as always, creates a totally unique charactor. But as much as I enjoyed Oldman, Chris Cooper was the best gem of them all. He plays an ex-adman, looking for honesty---need I say more.

But, despite all the fun, the movie does make it's point, without hammering you in the head.

You will not be disappointed with Interstate 60. It is weird, it is thought provoking, it is strange it is my favorite movie EVER (including What the Bleep and The Secret which are close 2nds) It is also one of only 3 movies that I have paid full price for.

I can't describe it. Just buy it and you will like it.

I originally downloaded this movie without having any knowledge of it's content. After watching it 6 or 7 times I purchased the retail version. I showed it to friends and family and all of them at least liked it. Many loved it. I have since purchased copies for 5 of my 6 children. The 6th will get a copy when she's old enough. It isn't a movie for those under 17. It has some pretty rough language in spots but no nudity. The story is original and there's a nice ending. I was amazed that no one has ever heard of it considering the cast... Michael J Fox, Gary Oldman, Kurt Russell, Christopher Lloyd, Ann Margret.. You can sum my thoughts up with 3 words... I Loved It!

Unbelievable movie!! I LOVED It.
Great cast, great story.
Gary Oldman is by far one of the best actors in the world!!!!

This name may not be a big box office hit but wow will it be once you've watched it! Amy Smart is but one of serveral familiar faces to grace this movie. Full of fun, laughs and surprisingly a moral. This is worth buying, it is definetly worth watching at least twice!!

I first found this flick as a movie rental, noting the cast included Gary Oldman, whom I always enjoyed.

What an enjoyable surprise! The film comes to you with a built-in twinkle in it's eye, having a load of fun playing with the viewer. It's like a mature version of Alice in Wonderland, but instead of different creatures, the adventures are focused on people met on the road or in the towns visited.

The film is sprinkled with star cameos. Gary Oldman, as always, creates a totally unique charactor. But as much as I enjoyed Oldman, Chris Cooper was the best gem of them all. He plays an ex-adman, looking for honesty---need I say more.

But, despite all the fun, the movie does make it's point, without hammering you in the head.

You will not be disappointed with Interstate 60. It is weird, it is thought provoking, it is strange it is my favorite movie EVER (including What the Bleep and The Secret which are close 2nds) It is also one of only 3 movies that I have paid full price for.

I can't describe it. Just buy it and you will like it.

I originally downloaded this movie without having any knowledge of it's content. After watching it 6 or 7 times I purchased the retail version. I showed it to friends and family and all of them at least liked it. Many loved it. I have since purchased copies for 5 of my 6 children. The 6th will get a copy when she's old enough. It isn't a movie for those under 17. It has some pretty rough language in spots but no nudity. The story is original and there's a nice ending. I was amazed that no one has ever heard of it considering the cast... Michael J Fox, Gary Oldman, Kurt Russell, Christopher Lloyd, Ann Margret.. You can sum my thoughts up with 3 words... I Loved It!

JOSEPH ANDREWS is a glorious adaptation of the Henry Fielding novel. Done in much the same style as Tony Richardson's previous film TOM JONES. This viewer prefers JOSEPH ANDREWS as a more satisfying film experience. The adaptation from book to movie works better. The performances from all the classic British actors are priceless. The dialogue, filming, editing, costumes and locations are perfectly brought to life. Special mention has to go to Ann-Margret for her performance as Lady Booby. You won't see a more controlled, flawless, hilarious performance in any other film. She is striking to watch. Not only in her beauty, but in the delivery of her lines. Her accent is totally convincing. When has an actress made eating asparagus look soooooooo enticing! JOSEPH ANDREWS is definitely one of the forgotten gems from the 70's. Mixed-up identities and bawdiness at it's best!

The 1742 novel 'Joseph Andrews' was author Fielding's second of three reinterpretations of his friend and rival Samuel Richardson's 1740 bestseller 'Pamela', a book he found so enticing for its sensible virtue and salacious voyeurism that he felt compelled to capitalise on the trend towards moralistic fables. ('Pamela' was the first novel printed in America, by Ben Franklin, in 1744.) In 'Joseph Andrews', Fielding depicts Pamela's brother as he endures a trek home from London in ignominy after his employer, the recently widowed and newly hot-to-trot Lady Booby, has fired him for spurning her advances. A Shakespearean concoction of plot twists ensues, in which Joseph may be Pamela's brother, or not, his fiancee's sister, or not, and Lady Booby's son, or not. In this the story becomes a comic picaresque in the tradition of 'Don Quixote', just the travels of two guys trying to go home, carrying with them a noble mission and the need for self-preservation in the face of many opportunities and threats.

Film interpretations of Fielding always have a tall order, because the author cut his teeth as a hack playwright in 1720s London and developed an infallible sense of how to tease and please an audience for profit. This movie delights just as the 1963 version of 'Tom Jones' does, and for the same reasons (having the same director being the biggest), although it is not shortened as much as 'Tom Jones' and therefore retains much more of Fielding's flavour, balance and scale. Michael Hordern would not have been my first choice for the humble Parson Adams (I would have preferred one more like Roy Kinnear) but he plays the infallibly and perhaps unrealistically upright character with dignity and charm. Ann-Margaret returns a surprising performance as a ridiculously insatiable English gentlewoman, though perhaps by playing Fielding's Lady Booby she could not have refrained from displaying her chest. But the aptly named Natalie Ogle as Joseph's fiancee Fanny tends to lose her shirt a few times too. though more as a victim than a vamp, and that is entirely in keeping with a bawdy 1740s English comedy anyway. All the bare breasts and bottoms (as well as the sexual innuendo) in 'Andrews' are done with a responsible sense of comedic timing and decorum, not merely gratuitously, and as such are both genuinely funny and a statement on the pitiable circumstances of the characters-- or, in the end, their marital bliss. That makes the movie all the more delectable; but it is NOT family fare (and got rated R for it).

As a die-hard 'Pamela' fan I found it a treat to at last get to see this story on DVD and especially to see this character done so well. There has never been a distributed video version of 'Pamela' (and there should be) and though in his book Fielding represents Samuel Richardson's heroine after her marriage to 'Mr B' as haughty and selfish, here director Tony Richardson shows her as warm and compassionate, appropriately satisfied with having taken the high road and thus able to be a good influence on the happy outcome of her brother's trials. Karen Dotrice has the right look, as the character has been depicted in the contemporary Highmore painting series, and the right amount of virtuous prettiness to deserve this thespian's mantle.

But it is Peter Firth who takes the whole show, invariably cute in a 1970s/Mark Hammill goodness, with his tousled blond locks and hairless chest and coy white-toothed smile embodying an innocence and eagerness that the sarcastically grinning Albert Finney did not in 'Tom Jones'. In the scene filmed in the actual Roman baths he is only a sweet-natured trusting boy, more impressed with having climbed a tree to win a prize in front of his fair maiden Fanny at the fair than with the sight of Lady Booby's clinging wet shirt right in front of him. Throughout the movie he has the single-minded virtue of a superhero waiting in disguise, and the viewer pulls for him in every step of the way home.

See this one before 'Tom Jones', as that's how Fielding wrote them, and you'll recognise the author's development of both character and plot that guided him towards his better-known 1749 masterpiece. They're both good movies and far easier for most than reading the books ('Tom Jones' is 933 pages!).

A marvellous adaptation of the Feilding novel, with a interesting and varied cast. It is very bawdy, highly sexual and much in the style of a Shakespeare's "Twelth Night" for the confusion and naughtiness that emits from mistaken identity.
A good version of the story but do follow the age guidelines as it features a lot of adult content and a fairly long scene of full frontal male nudity, in spite of the age of the film.

What can I say? AM's finest moment. Spectacularly sleazy.

Oh, and the rest of the film's nice too, etc.

"Joseph Andrews" is not as witty, charming, and disarming as its predecessor, "Tom Jones", but performances by Ann Margaret and, even moreso, Beryl Reid, lend this film its best moments. The film's hero is a bit bland, his love interest beyond bland, and the film has the feel of "haven't we been here before... and wasn't it funnier then?" There are some genuinely funny moments, but the real reason to see it is the aforementioned Ms. Reid.
The late Beryl Reid, one of the most underrated (and sadly least filmed) character actresses of the film age, is Lady Booby's maid, Slipshod. Her scenes are the best in the film and it's a rare opportunity to see this actress in a role that she can sink her teeth into. See also the hard-to-find "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" and "The Killing of Sister George".

Ann-Margret gives us a wonderful and candid portrait of one of the most fascinating actresses in the business, her strengths and weaknesses, her wins and losses in both her professional and personal life. I have a great deal of respect for her as an actress, a lady and a woman. A good read.

This is a really good book well written, flows nicely and great story.

She has always been one of my most favorite entertainers. She is a truly remarkable woman and reading this book reinforced that fact. I enjoyed every page. Well done, Ann-Margret!

I had the audiotape version, read by the author, and was surprised at how hokey it sounded, given that she is an actress. I mean, I expected a better reading. Not sure how well it represents her, but the book makes her come across as a bit shallow. I've enjoyed her movies, but found this book a bore.

This review is based on hardcover 1994 publication...

Accomplished actress, entertainer, wife, daughter, mother -- Ann-Margret writes an informative, entertaining autobiographical picture of her life, loves, losses, heartaches, and continued triumphs. Candidly, this performer tells of her successes but is also honest about her bouts with alcohol - and her triumph over the illness - more than once. It is interesting to note pride in her heritage from Valsjobyn, Sweden, her birthplace... with a close and loving relationship with her parents and their immigration to the US.

To read Ann-Margret's autobiography is to cry, laugh, & cheer... reading of her downs but mostly ups, with her loving husband and manager Roger Smith, who battled his own nerve disease to remission, and remained at Ann-Margret's side to support her personally and professionally, through hard times and more good times. The loss of her father to cancer; the death of Elvis Presley; her accidental fall from a platform at a performance in Lake Tahoe and finding the astounding strength and determination to come back to the entertainment world so quickly from so many injuries suffered in that fall... tells of the inner strength, stability, astuteness, professional, unselfish and loving human being that is Ann-Margret, who always keeps her positive focus within reach.

Ann-Margret's career began at an early age; even though a "natural talent", her success came with a lot of very hard work, high standards, and fortitude based on a mannerly upbringing and strong support by her parents, friends and husband Roger Smith. Ann-Margret describes in her bio a close and soulmate relationship within the scope of personal as well as professional essence with legendary Elvis Presley. Her upbeat description and tales of her co-stars, including "Duke" John Wayne; Claudette Colbert; Bette Davis; George Burns; directors, producers, along with many supportive individuals.

Her range of talent is wide -- in song, dance... acting on stage, movie screen and television, along with her comedy performances among which are Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Lucille Ball, and the great George Burns. Acting roles she assumed were highly challenging and to her credit she glowed with each performance, in differing genre delving into in-depth characterizations -- her repertoire includes but not limited to "Bye Bye Birdie", "Tommy", "Streetcar Named Desire", "Carnal Knowledge", "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles".

This reader has always been a fan of both Ann-Margret and husband Roger Smith, ignoring the tabloid garbage... cheering and admiring the fortitude of both of these talented persons and their lasting relationship...

And to Ann-Margret I say... thank you for writing your biography, even though it took me some years to get to reading it among my large collection of books. And, I am so glad I did... I am proud to be a "forever fan" of yours. God bless you.

This moviw was a gift for my husband and at first I thought it was just weird! However, after watching the whole mive I've got to say it is at least entertaining. It is full of stars, some before they were very famous. It is very creative and fun to watch.

When I was 18 or so I listened to The Who's music and I also listened to the album Tommy. I can agree that it's not so great, unless you have seen the movie. I finally had the chance to see it recently and I enjoyed enormously.

The movie is a great wink and attempts to laugh at everything, including stardom itself. Nice that it features some performances of the 70s most famous popstars, like Eric Clapton, Tina Turner and Elton John.

Every shot in this movie, from starting with a picknick somewhere in the countryside until Roger Daltrey climbing the same mountainous countryside, is full of nostalgia if you've grown up in the seventies. I can agree with some other reviewers; this movie should not be watched completely sober nor should you be to serious about the plot or characters.

But I don't recall The Who being such a serious band anyway. :-) Enjoy!

I am thrilled that this is finally affordable and on DVD! One of my favorite movies, Tommy captures the lost feeling we all felt in the 70's. We were not sure what we had to hold onto, and music saved a lot of us from drowning in that nothingness. Pete Townsend's opera says it all.

Hard to sum up or interpret the meaning of this film or the motivations of the story composer/writer Pete Townsend, but it's recommended for a look even if not a fan/familiar with the famed rock opera.
Another star would have been awarded had the movie not featured the unwatchable and less than listenable Oliver Reed in the role of Tommy's(Roger Daltrey)stepfather. Mother Ann-Margaret is a little easier on the ears and eyes and shines in a don't-miss scene with beans and soap suds that must have been conceived on strong hallucinogenics.Be warned however that with the exception of "Eyesight to the Blind" "Acid Queen" and maybe another, the majority of songs here are far inferior to the 1969 album versions.
Frankly the music is not as good as the album, even for the all-star cast of Tina Turner, eric Clapton and Elton somebody. First 15 minutes or so are weak and show-tuney, but starts to rock when Clapton appears. There's a message here but who knows what it really is. It's a tale that may be about false prophets, religion or self-awareness, but remains ambiguous enough to be a good topic of discussion. Visually imaginative sets and backgrounds make a feast for the eyes as well as the ears. Save your drug money and see this instead, kids. It is weird!!

I saw this movie when I was young and absolutely loved it. Not a word is spoken, only sung to the Who's rock opera by the same name. I would call this a "modern day silent film". Innovative for its time. Pete Townshend shows that he is one gifted writer and musician.

Briefly, the movie is about a boy who lost his father during World War II before he was born and suffered a tramatic shock when he saw an event. He lost his ability to see and hear and then regains it after a long journey. This is the journey we witness.

When I saw this again the other day, it still had the same impact on me, visually perfect. Since no words are spoken, the story must be conveyed through sight and sound (music), something Tommy is lacking. I grew up in a photographically minded family and remembered my dad liking this movie for the cinematagraphy (he didn't like the Who's music).

This film has a great cast. Roger Daltry, Ann Margret, Tina Turner, Jack Nicholson, Eric Clapton, Elton John and even Keith Moon. It was great to hear Nicholson try to sing, and Elton in those big boots.

You have to like the Who's music to totally enjoy this film, but it still is a visual and musical feast after all these years. Buy and enjoy. This version sounds great on a home theater system!

Oh, if you're too young and don't think you remember the Who's music, think again. All three of the CSIs use the Who's songs as their theme songs. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" ("Who are you"), "CSI: Miami"("Won't Get Fooled Again") and "CSI: NY" ("Baba O'Riley"). All written by Pete Townshend and performed by the Who.

I saw this at the theater when it was released and also purchased the VHS. This is an excellent movie and it really mystifies me as to what took so long for it to be released on DVD when so much plastic is committed to garbage every week for movies that were better left to deteriorate on film (and were a waste of that film to begin with).

This is one of Gene Hackman's lesser known movies but he did a wonderful job of acting, as a long-time married man who meets a new woman bartender (Ann Margaret) on his birthday and begins an affair with her. The film deals with the complications of Hackman's and Margaret's new found love as well as guilt, along with the anguish it causes his wife (Ellyn Burnstyn) and kids. Perhaps Amy Madigan's acting as Hackman's forever-angry daughter is a bit over the top but I felt all of the acting was superb, as was the script. True, adultery is not an acceptable behavior but it happens and in this movie we see the temptations that led to this happening, as well as the effect is has on everyone in a very realistic and emotional portrayal.

As an aside, I also enjoyed the bits of Pat Metheny's music that was used in the score. This is a "talky" movie and contained too much profanity for my tastes but I also thought it fit with the movie. Now that it is on DVD I am looking forward to its release because this is one of my favorites, and I prefer DVD over VHS. Highly recommended if you are a fan of relationship movies.

"Twice in a Lifetime" is a good drama and worth seeing. Unfortunately, this new DVD is not widescreen as Warner Home Video originally announced, but instead is an especially poorly done pan-and-scan presentation. I do not recommend this disc and am posting this as a public service to those who might be misled by Warner's original announcement or Amazon's "technical details," which are incorrect.

Gene Hackman is not handsome or suave. He isn't a tough guy in the mold of Bogart or Cagney though he has a manly presence. He doesn't have a romantic persona on screen, but somehow he carries off a believable middle-age romance with Ann Margret in Twice in a Lifetime. Well, who wouldn't if the object of affection was Ann-Margret?

When a man leaves his family after fifty, dumps his wife, lovely Ellen Burstyn, and separates himself from his angry daughter, Amy Madigan of the short hair do and Ally Sheedy of the Brat Pack fame, well, all hell breaks lose. If blue collar, Mariner and Sea Hawk rooting, Harry MacKenzie wants a second chance at love, he has to face the wrath of all those that love him.

This is an uncharacteristic look at middle-age divorce and love so rare in a Hollywood film. Harry has wrought a moral and ethical riddle. The audience will have to decide.

for anyone waiting for a decent presentation of this fine film, keep waiting. The transfer is old and grainy and is only availabe in full screen. In this day and age of wide screen TV's and the DVD boom, how can a studio still release product without the slightest consideration for FILM FANS.....BEATS ME?

Gene Hackman is my favorite actor, but with technology the way that it is, I would expect a better DVD transfer than this! It's dirty with scratches and spots and dropouts. Plus, it's only in full-frame format. NO WIDESCREEN!
I gave it 1 star because of Gene Hackman's performance but for me, it's unwatchable.
The tragedy is that this may be the only transfer done of this movie, since it's not a block buster.
COME ON GUYS, LET'S SPEND A LITTLE MORE TIME ON THESE MOVIES! THERE ARE A LARGE NUMBER OF GENE HACKMAN FANS OUT HERE!
By the way, same review for TARGET, although it is in widescreen. That was also very disappointing.

Limited general information and sometimes wrong (such as Brigitte's Bardot's "real" name). It mostly consists of listening to the stars' movie trailers which is very uninteresting since they were developed to be shown on screen not radio. Especially silly is listening to Brigitte Bardot's since most of her films shown in the US were dubbed, so you not only are not seeing her but not even hearing her own voice. This is of no value.