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Chargement... Nothing General About It: How Love (and Lithium) Saved Me On and Off General Hospital (édition 2021)par Maurice Benard (Auteur)
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Instant New York Times bestseller! The Emmy Award-winning star of General Hospital chronicles his astonishing and emotional life journey in this powerful memoir--an inspiring story of success, show business, and family, and his struggle with mental illness. "This shocking true story is General Hospital on anabolic steroids." -- Mehmet Oz, M.D., Emmy Award-winning host of The Dr. Oz Show Maurice Benard has been blessed with family, fame, and a successful career. For twenty-five years, he has played one of the most well-known characters on daytime television: General Hospital's Michael "Sonny" Corinthos, Jr. In his life outside the screen, he is a loving husband and the father of four. But his path has not been without hardship. When he was only twenty, Maurice was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. In Nothing General About It, Maurice looks back to his youth in a small town and his tenuous relationship with his father. He describes how his bipolar disorder began to surface in childhood, how he struggled to understand the jolting mood swings he experienced, and how a doctor finally saved his life. For years Maurice was relentless in his goal to be a successful actor. But even after he "made it," he still grappled with terrifying lows, breakdowns, and setbacks, all while trying desperately to maintain his relationship with his wife, who endured his violent, unpredictable episodes. Maurice holds nothing back as he bravely talks about what it was like to be medicated and institutionalized, and of how he learned to manage his manic episodes while on the set of GH. Nothing General About It is also an incredible love story about an enduring marriage that demonstrates what those vows--for better, for worse, in sickness and in health--truly mean. Maurice also pays tribute to the community that has been there for him through thick and thin, and ruminates on the importance of both inherited and created family. A shocking, riveting, and utterly candid memoir of love, adversity, and ultimately hope, Nothing General About It offers insights and advice for everyone trying to cope with mental illness, and is a motivational story that offers lessons in perseverance--of the importance of believing in and fighting for yourself through the darkest times. Nothing General About It includes a 16-page insert featuring approximately 50 photographs. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This did do much better when it came to General Hospital. I knew the basics of a lot of the stories in this book from having seen and read interviews with Benard over the years, still I liked getting more detail on his friendship with the show’s beloved makeup artist and also when there are so many toxic stories about powerful people in Hollywood, it’s refreshing to read about Wendy Riche and Shelley Curtis being decent humans and supportive bosses all while they steered GH through one of its best eras. The off-screen relationship with Ron Hale (Sonny’s dad), Maurice’s thoughts on his on-screen son’s portrayal of bipolar, and his nerves playing opposite Tony Geary for the first time, were also good to read about.
I did think this could have had more Brenda/Vanessa Marcil, but I guess I would think that no matter how much of her was featured here because I just loved them together, I particularly would have liked to hear about shooting the scenes where Brenda wore the wire. Also, as far as GH, time after time Maurice mentions taking actors under his wing, teaching them his acting method, and although I’m not an actor, I still would have enjoyed a bit more insight into what exactly that entails, how he prepares for a scene, how he shakes it off afterwards, etc., the guy is seriously good at his job, I would have liked to have known a little more about how he does it, what goes into it.
I do get though that I must be in the minority wanting to hear more about actors working lives rather than their personal lives or every book published wouldn’t focus more on the latter. In Maurice’s case, his personal life is probably the more important part of his story to share anyway. I appreciated how candid he is at all times, even with stuff that doesn’t put him in the greatest light like how he treated his girlfriend/wife early on, and I have nothing but admiration for his continued willingness to talk so openly about his mental health struggles, the realities of living with depression and anxiety as well as how medication and therapy have helped him. Mental health has a presence on nearly every page of this book, harrowingly described at times yet there’s plenty of hope here. ( )