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| Plot Summary of My Fractured Life |
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"This is the story of the seemy side of Hollywood."
Mandy Flipp, Resident Scholar
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""My Fractured Life" by B-movie actor Rikki Lee Travolta (Infinity Publishing) provides a very realistic picture of the life of an actor in Hollywood, and it's a very sad picture.
This is the story of a man who wants to be an actor, but settles for being famous. In a self-medicated world of cocaine abuse and sexual addiction, he comes to terms with the idea that audiences care more about how he looks with his shirt off than whether he can act.
The characters of the book are superbly richly drawn; there is not a stereotype among them. Television stars, agents, and even adult film actors are shown as real people with insecurities, guilt, and shame. It is not the story of drug addicts on the street; it is the very real story of drug addicts who attend PTA meetings.
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Jeff Condon, Resident Scholar
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"The unwanted offspring of Hollywood, Jesse Newman and Rikki Lee Travolta battle through the turmoil of emotional childhood abuse. In a sorrowful quest for the emotional acceptance that eludes them from their distant and abusive families, as young men they turn to careers themselves in Hollywood in the hopes that fame will provide a substitute for love.
Newman is blessed with the skills to succeed as an actor. Travolta is a guy who looks good with his shirt off. Through the luck of sleeping with the right casting agent, Travolta is the one who ends up with the successful career in Hollywood while his more talented but less lucky best friend Newman falls off the figurative face earth facing dejection after dejection as an actor and in his personal life.
While one man's star rises and the other's falls, they both fall into the terrible web of alcohol and drug addiction, ultimately destroying one if not both.
In this exploration of the sordid elements of an actors life, Travolta writes with great passion and an authentic if self-deprecating voice.
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Barb Hevner, Resident Scholar
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Plot
job/profession:
- actor/actress
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Phys disability/mental struggle?
Yes
Struggle with
- drugs
Story of entertainer?
- TV Drama Actor
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- actor/actress/producer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
- emotionally unstable
- wild
Biography of famous person?
Yes
Ethnicity
- American Indian
Nationality
- Italian
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Physique
- very athletic
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 5 (an average amount)
United States
Yes
The US:
- Southeast
- Midwest
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- Los Angeles
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
- wealthy
- rude people
- Chicago
Misc setting
- Fancy Mansion
- sewers/subways
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Book makes you feel?
- thoughtful
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- Dry-cynical
- parody
- satire
- sarcastic/sardonic
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- actual description of hetero sex
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- race
- love/sex
- decency
- selfishness
- capitalism
- justice system
- wicked white people
- wicked men
- wicked women
- wicked rich people
- dying
- religion
Unusual Style:
- a lot of play on words
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- a lot of stream of consciousness
Writer's slant towards subject:
- somewhat unfavorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
Is this a biography of several people?
Yes
Autobiography?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- A few 1-5 B&W
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
A LOT of info about personal vices?
Yes
Lot of titilating info about love life?
Yes
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 0-25% of book
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