Watch Me

A Memoir

By: Anjelica Huston

Narrated by: Anjelica Huston

Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston’s “tireless fascination with the world is thrilling” (Elle), and Watch Me is an “elegant and entertaining” (Chicago Tribune) account of her seventeen-year love affair with Jack Nicholson, her rise to stardom, and her mastery of the craft of acting.

Picking up where her first memoir A Story Lately Told leaves off, Watch Me is a chronicle of Anjelica Huston’s glamorous and eventful Hollywood years. “With a conversational intimacy, inhabiting the role of the new best friend” (San Francisco Chronicle), she writes about falling in love with Jack Nicholson and her adventurous, turbulent, high-profile, spirited relationship with him and his intoxicating circle of friends.

She writes about learning how to act; about her Academy Award-winning portrayal of Maerose Prizzi in Prizzi’s Honor; about her collaborations with many of the greatest directors in Hollywood, including Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Richard Condon, Bob Rafelson, Mike Nichols, and Stephen Frears. She movingly and beautifully describes the death of her father John Huston and her marriage to sculptor Robert Graham.

She is candid, mischievous, warm, passionate, funny, and a fabulous storyteller. Watch Me is a magnificent memoir “from a lady so simultaneously real, tough, vulnerable, privileged, and candid, I want to hear whatever she tells me” (Lisa Schwarzbaum, The New York Times Book Review).

A Portrait Of The Last Great Hollywood Generation

Written in vignettes, both guarded and wise. Anjelica isn't so much introspective as a great observer of life around her, and fills the memoir with lovely imagery and observations that can only come from Irish Storyteller blood. There is much heartbreak and loss as the generations pass, but also hope in the family's children. The memories of Robert Graham are especially moving and brought me to tears on several occasions. Here is a time capsule of the Hollywood Elite of the 70s and 80s, as well as a portrait of an insecure but privileged girl who finally finds her voice, strength, beauty and gratitude.

I thought she would be a better writer.

Would you try another book from Anjelica Huston and/or Anjelica Huston?

I found this memoir to be lacking in writing chops, word usage and just plain…I thought she would be smarter. Too much who's who in her hollywood world. I expected her to spend more time on an intellectual life and what she thought about the world and her place in it. No. More of a boyfriend journal. She is kind of a poor lucky rich girl. Not interesting at all.

Excellent memoir

I loved the way this memoir is written takes you to what holywood is allabout

Could she be any less engaged in her own story?

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

While I did listen to the entire book I cannot say that had I known what it would be like, I might have passed on it.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

Her relationship with Jack Nicholson, which I knew existed but did not know the details. Her relationship with her husband, who died, was interesting only in that if he had not died, she probably would have divorced him.

Would you be willing to try another one of Anjelica Huston’s performances?

No, this was terrible. She was reading a book, not telling me a story about her life. I was very disappointed in how she delivered her message. She sounded bored with her own life, and made me bored with it, too.

Could you see Watch Me: A Memoir being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

No, her life is not that interesting.

Amazing, honest, interesting story.

I not only loved every chapter of Anjelica’s book, I feel like I know her at least a little bit now. I first listened to her book A Story Lately Told, it was a few years ago. Now I’ve grown to love her more as she’s shared more of herself with us in Watch Me. I could feel her vulnerability, her determination, and at times her hurt and grief. There is nothing better than an author telling their own story in their own voice. She’s a beautiful writer, articulate and intelligent, sensitive and real. I highly recommend this book.