Heres the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice Ebook
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FREEHERES THE STORY: SURVIVING MARCIA BRADY AND FINDING MY TRUE VOICE EBOOK Maureen McCormick | 304 pages | 15 Sep 2009 | HarperCollins Publishers Inc | 9780061490156 | English | United States Read Here's the Story Online by Maureen McCormick | Books Greetings friends! The book was first published in October and found itself at number four on the New York Times Bestseller list. So, I was almost decade late getting around to reading the book. However, I am sure I am just one among many fans who had not ever read it. I am certainly no book reviewer though! As more devout fans of The Brady Bunch know, several books have been written about the series. She concludes her story about being on the show by the end of chapter nine. The book has twenty-nine chapters. The original plan had Maureen playing Jan, the middle child, with an older girl playing Marcia Brady. The story was changed up to use younger children and Maureen was moved to Heres the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice role of the oldest sister. She states that the children were asked to bring a couple of personal items from their home to decorate the set. She states the show Heres the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice opened with poor reviews and she was slightly embarrassed. At the time, she wished she were cast on a hipper show. It is funny to think how many kids who loved the show would have imagined being thrilled to be a part of it or even on a TV show at all, while the one they admired so wished she were on a hipper show. Maureen couples the happy memories of being on the Brady set with her own troubled home life. She was one of four children to parents who fought a lot. To add to the challenges of home life, she had a mentally disabled brother. Her mother was a hoarder that did not Heres the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice or clean. He wanted to make Shakespeare. He used to go outside and smoke through his frustrations. During our last season, he would take extended trips to a tiny bar just beyond the studio gates. She was there for a good time — and a good living. She was a free spirit. He recalled he could always count on Florence to deliver a joke or gag. Remembering the talent of Ann B. She was just quiet. Between scenes she sat in a chair off to the side, working on a needlepoint project, happy as a lark. Perhaps Ann one day complained about a specifically burdensome day with the kids and this Heres the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice cast her as one who did not like working with kids. It happens. Also, she never had children of her own, so her way of relating to them may have also given a false impression of not liking to work with them. The book makes no mention of a feud or bad blood between the two. She does write that Susan Olsen later told her that Eve Plumb was jealous of the attention Maureen got on the show and felt like she was in her shadow. Eve was my best friend. Fans of the show would likely enjoy chapters three to nine very much. The rest of the book takes on a much darker turn. The remainder of the s and into the s saw her always looking for work as an actress while being addicted to cocaine. It is sad to think of such a beautiful young woman engaging in such a destructive habit. However, she did and she did it often. There is no mention of her ever considering pursuing some other line of work. At the time of the book, her most recent appearances on television had been on the reality series Celebrity Fit Club and Gone Country. The pair have been married over 30 years! Learning to ask for help is as important as learning the value of helping other people…. After all is said and done, I love life. I love people. And I love being me…well, most of the time. If you have read this book and would like to share your own thoughts or have thoughts on this review to share, please do so in the comments section! I am a lifelong fan of the Brady Bunch. I love it for it's wholesomeness, it's absurdity and how it serves as a time capsule for a time that really never existed, but so many of us wish it did. Through the years I've enjoyed the Brady Bunch spinoffs however Heres the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice livedrevivals in pop culture, books, reunions, movies and spoofs. Now, I am excited to be revisiting the show after nearly a decade's hiatus from viewing. I am a parent now, so there may be some new perspectives never before experienced. I hope my fellow fans, lovers and haters alike of the Brady Bunch will join me on this blogging adventure and share your own thoughts and observations. View all posts by bradybunchreviewed. Like Liked by 1 person. Only very briefly, around 3 paragraphs. Pages in the hardcover edition that I own. Suggest that you Google or YouTube for these interviews. By the time the book was written, The King of Pop had a lot of negative press surrounding him. She might have excluded some details regarding her association with him. Like Like. Yes, I loved her book. I especially love how she was introduced to her husband. Jerry Hauser, her TV husband, Wally was instrumental in helping her get help for her addictions. I just love this book! Like Liked by 2 people. Maureen is a lot more open about Michael Jackson in her interviews versus her book. Here are a few interviews. She is very flirtatious with Heres the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice and seems to be having a great time. And to think, if things were different she could have been in Raiders of the Lost Ark! Maureen certainly grabbed the best title of any of the Brady books. One of the most poignant quotes from her book was when she said that millions of girls wanted to be like Marcia Brady, including herself. Maureen went through a lot of dark times addiction, etc after her Brady Bunch years. I find the fact that she found her way out of those dark times to continue her acting career, to be uplifting and redeeming. Ross is one of my truly most favorite people ever. This alone makes her so endearing to me. Hi Mike, I have this book on my Kindle and read it on plane flights. I have a few more chapters to go. Thanks for your consideration. Reblogged this on Maureen McCormick Blog. I adored the Marcia character, but I got a different take on Maureen. From the book I was very saddened by the dysfunction and pain of her family life. But what struck me was the way it appeared that she seemed to have absolutely no scruples about taking drugs. Maybe it was just poor writing, but it was portrayed that she was offered drugs and just took them. Also, the trips with her brother to Hawaii to search for mushrooms—no compunction at all. Same with the abortions. They all seemed to be done without a thought—like selecting snacks. It was this depressing thread that made me toss the book. I have never read a book that seemed more devoid of conscience. Thanks for sharing those thoughts. It has a lot of sordid events. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Skip to content Heres the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice friends! Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice by Maureen McCormick Marcia Brady, eldest daughter on television's The Brady Bunch, had it all—style, looks, boys, brains, and talent. No wonder her younger sister Jan was jealous! For countless adolescents across America who came of age in the early s, Marcia was the ideal American teenager. Girls wanted to be her. Boys wanted to date her. But what viewers didn't know about the always-sunny, perfect Marcia was that offscreen, her real-life counterpart, Maureen McCormick, the young actress who portrayed her, was living a very different—and not-so-wonderful—life. Now, for the very first time, Maureen tells the shocking and Heres the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice true story of the beloved teen generations have invited into their living rooms—and the woman she became. In Here's the Story, Maureen takes us behind the scenes of America's favorite television family, the Bradys. With poignancy and candor, she reveals the lifelong friendships, the hurtful jealousies, the offscreen romance, the loving support her television family provided during a life-or-death moment, and the inconsolable loss of a man who had been a second father. But The Brady Bunch was only the beginning. Haunted by the perfection of her television alter ego, Maureen landed on the dark side, caught up in a fast-paced, drug-fueled, star-studded Hollywood existence that ultimately led to the biggest battle of her life.