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By Some Miracle I Made It Out Of There
Tom Sizemore
Atria
April 2013
On Sale: April 9, 2013
240 pages
ISBN: 1451681674
EAN: 9781451681673
Kindle: B008J2GDAC
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Tom Sizemore has been called many things. Brilliant. Brutal.
Fiercely talented. Angry. Drug addicted. In reality, he’s
all of them. He’s a survivor of the Detroit ghetto, the
fifty-year-old father of twin boys, and a veteran of dozens
of movies. He’s also now sober, after his addiction took his
life just about as far down as any human being could go. Through screen-stealing performances in the 1990s movies
True Romance, Heat, and Natural Born Killers, Sizemore was
so in demand that even when it was widely known that he had
a drug problem, directors like Steven Spielberg were
offering him roles and begging him to stay sober for them.
Robert De Niro personally recruited him for the role of Michael Cheritto in Heat after asking him to dinner and expressing
his admiration. Jack Nicholson, Robert Downey, Jr., and
Johnny Depp each went out of their way to befriend him. But
this same man went from romancing Elizabeth Hurley and
Juliette Lewis to being accused of domestic violence by the
world’s most famous madam, and moved from a Beverly Hills
mansion to a solitary-confinement cell at Chino State Prison
and later a desolate, abandoned cabin in a town best known
for being where Charles Manson hid Rosemary LaBianca’s wallet. For years, Sizemore’s days were filled with overdoses,
suicide attempts, and homelessness. The simple fact is that
people don’t come back from where Tom Sizemore landed—yet
miraculously, he did. By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There
is a harrowing journey into the heart of addiction, told in
riveting and often shocking detail—a terrifying cautionary
tale for anyone who’s peered over the abyss of drug abuse.
By turns gritty and heartbreaking, it is also one man’s look
at a particular moment in entertainment history—a window
into the drug-fueled spotlight that sent Robert Downey, Jr.,
to jail and killed River Phoenix, Heath Ledger, and Chris
Farley and many others far before their time.
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Re: By Some Miracle I Made It Out Of There
WOW! This book seems interesting to say the least. I am sure that it will also be heartbreaking at times. I will definitely want to read this book: By Some Miracle I Made It Out Of There by Tom Sizemore
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