
Untied
A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering
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Meredith Baxter
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Meredith Baxter
I remember Sarah asking me, when I’d just begun therapy with her, what I looked for in a man.
After a few moments of silent, tense deliberation I had it.
"Hair", I blurted. "He has to have hair".
Meredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic television actress, most well-known for her enormously popular role as hippie mom, Elyse Keaton, on Family Ties. Her warmth, humor, and brilliant smile made her one of the most popular women on television, with millions of viewers following her on the small screen each week. Yet her success masked a tumultuous personal story and a harrowing private life. For the first time, Baxter is ready to share her incredible highs, (working with Robert Redford, Doris Day, Lana Turner, and the cast of Family Ties), and lows (a thorny relationship with her mother, a difficult marriage to David Birney, a bout with breast cancer), finally revealing the woman behind the image.
From her childhood in Hollywood, growing up the daughter of actress and co-creator of One Day at a Time Whitney Blake, Baxter became familiar with the ups and downs of show business from an early age. After wholeheartedly embracing the 60's counterculture lifestyle, she was forced to rely on her acting skills after her first divorce left her a 22-year-old single mother of two. Baxter began her professional career with supporting roles in the critically panned horror film Ben, and in the political thriller All the President's Men.
More lucrative work soon followed on the small screen. Baxter starred with actor David Birney as the title characters in controversial sitcom Bridget Loves Bernie. While the series only lasted a year, her high-profile romance with Birney lasted 15 volatile and unhappy years. Hiding the worst of her situation from even those closest to her, Baxter’s career flourished as her self-esteem and family crumbled. Her successful run as Nancy on Family was followed by her enormously popular role on Family Ties, and dozens of well-received television movies.
After a bitter divorce and custody battle with Birney, Baxter increasingly relied on alcohol as a refuge, and here speaks candidly of her decision to take her last drink in 1990. And while another ruinous divorce to screenwriter Michael Blodgett taxed Baxter’s strength and confidence, she has emerged from her experiences with the renewed self-assurance, poise, and understanding that have enabled her to find a loving, respectful relationship with Nancy Locke, and to speak about it openly.
Told with insight, wit, and disarming frankness, Untied is the eye-opening and inspiring life of an actress, a woman, and a mother who has come into her own.
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Not quite as expected
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Fascinating Honest Insightful Relatable Life Story of a Courageous Woman
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A great listen
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Truth be told
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Elyse Keaton was drunk half the time
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Overall, it was very candid and compelling – a fascinating celebrity bio.
What a life!
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I'd recommend audiobook to a friend. It's a nice alternative to turning pages, and it allows be to do other things while I listen.What was one of the most memorable moments of Untied?
What stands out most to me is her lonely childhood experiences: as a small child coming home from school, calling her mother's name and her mother not answering because Meredith had called her "Mommy" instead of Whitney. Having to call her selfish, uncaring mother by her first name was heart-breaking --and it set the stage for the dysfunctional relationship they would have throughout their lives.What about Meredith Baxter’s performance did you like?
She did an excellent job of narrating. Her voice and tone are clear and concise, and she knows how to capture an audience. It's storytelling at its best. It probably helped that she is an actor as well.Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
It's an emotionally compelling autobiography. I felt joy, sadness, angry and compassion.Any additional comments?
I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It's a well written book.Raw, Honest and Heartfelt
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This takes nothing away from the story itself and other reviewers definitely disagree with me .... it's just my thoughts. I would still highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a good autobiography.
Melodramatic
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Would you consider the audio edition of Untied to be better than the print version?
Yes, I think it is quite possibly more authentic since it is her story read in her voice, and since she has a voice I like and recognize from the tv is brings a more personal element to it. I felt like I was listening to a friend.What was one of the most memorable moments of Untied?
Now I wish I had the book so that I could quickly flip back through and remind myself since it has been weeks since I finished it. Therefore the most memorable moments were the overall feelings of surprise that she was so naive yet I saw her as a role model mom when I was growing up.Have you listened to any of Meredith Baxter’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No, not aware she had any others.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No, I listen as I walk the dog so that would be a very long walk.Any additional comments?
My thanks to Meredith (as we apparently are now on first name basis since I read the book! ha!) for sharing such intimate information about her life. I work with people and their emotions and this will be a book I am sure to recommend. Biographies are a useful tools to learn about people and how they have found their path to success which is so often not the path that people expect. I love the surprise of who I think they are vs who they are through their own eyes. It reinforces how many assumptions we make, good or bad, about people every day. I hear so many young people stating the desire to be famous and feel they really could benefit from knowing the truth behind the characters we see on the screen.You think you "know" a celebrity...
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Self effacing pleasant to read
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