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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.45028092
EAN: 9781439153857
Edition: First Edition
ISBN: 143915385X
Label: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Manufacturer: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 292
Publication Date: September 23, 2009
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Studio: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
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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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This book disturbed me so much I can't properly express my feelings. I gave it four stars only because I couldn't put it down. It is a wonder MacKenzie or any of John Phillip's children reached adulthood. Ms Phillips told a horrifing survival story as bad as Stephen King or Dean Koontz could ever write. My heart goes out to her and I wish her only happiness and good things for the rest of her life. She has truly been to hell and back. How she forgave her father I will never know. He should have been in jail for child abuse for years. I can only hope where ever he is, he is paying the price.
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Bought this for my sister, age 55. Just talking with her today and she is currently reading it. She says it is an excellent read.
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This book is so hard to follow. Ms. Phillips talks about her drug abuse and seems to jump from age to age leaving the reader wondering how old she is? She talks about sexual abuse by her father but she kept returning knowing it was wrong. She seems to be justifying all the drugs, sex and crazy behavior.
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Great seller - received book in a timely manner and it was as described. I would use this seller again.
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High On Arrival
WOW! what a book! This lady pulls no punches, she never makes herself look good just to save face. She leaves nothing out! You will learn things about her that you never knew. This book is really about Mackenzie Phillips and John Phillips. By reading this book, you not only get a window into Mackenzie's life but her fathers also.
She does a lot of self-examining in the book (she could be a mental health professional).
The entire book tells stories of her many, many binges on drugs, so many that my head was swirling (it is a small wonder and grace of God that she is still alive today).
The book ends with her last appearance on The Rachel Ray show, just a year ago,
she missed that show do to another drug binge. She says she finally has her life together and knows she will never do drugs again, I certainly hope so, for if she doesn't she will die like her father did and this lady deserves to have a happy life for whatever life she has left on this earth, Lord knows her 1st 50 weren't so great!
This book is worth every penny you pay for it and more!!
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