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Simon Spotlight Entertainment
October 2009
On Sale: September 23, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 143915385X
EAN: 9781439153857
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Not long before her fiftieth birthday,Mackenzie Phillips
walked into Los Angeles International Airport. She was on
her way to a reunion for One Day at a Time, the
hugely popular 70s sitcom on which she once starred as the
lovable rebel Julie Cooper. Within minutes of entering the
security checkpoint, Mackenzie was in handcuffs, arrested
for possession of cocaine and heroin. Born into rock and
roll royalty, flying in Learjets to the Virgin Islands at
five, making pot brownies with her father's friends at
eleven, Mackenzie grew up in an all-access kingdom of hippie
freedom and heroin cool. It was a kingdom over which her
father, the legendary John Phillips of The Mamas & the
Papas, presided, often in absentia, as a spellbinding,
visionary phantom. When Mackenzie was a teenager,
Hollywood and the world took notice of the charming,
talented, precocious child actor after her star-making turn
in American Graffiti. As a young woman she joinedthe
nonstop party in the hedonistic pleasure dome her father
created for himself and his fellow revelers, and a rapt TV
audience watched as Julie Cooper wasted away before their
eyes. By the time Mackenzie discovered how deep and dark her
father's trip was going, it was too late. And as an adult,
she has paid dearly for a lifetime of excess, working
tirelessly to reconcile a wonderful, terrible past in which
she succumbed to the power of addiction and the pull of her
magnetic father. As her astounding, outrageous, and often
tender life story unfolds, the actor-musician-mother shares
her lifelong battle with personal demons and near-fatal
addictions. She overcomes seemingly impossible obstacles
again and again and journeys toward redemption and peace. By
exposing the shadows and secrets of the past to the light of
day, the star who turned up High on Arrival has
finally come back down to earth -- to stay.
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