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Let's just say it wasn't pretty / Diane Keaton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2014]Edition: First large print editionDescription: xxi, 201 p. (large print) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0804194432 :
  • 9780804194433 :
Other title:
  • Let us just say it was not pretty
  • Let's just say it was not pretty
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Contents:
Introduction: wrong is right -- Prisoners on my wall -- Corrections -- Bad hair days -- The eyes have it -- Turtlenecks and ties, bikinis and bras -- What is beauty? -- Size ten -- The dream or the neighborhood? -- Old is gold -- In one ear and out the other -- Healing humor -- In love with the night.
Summary: The Academy Award-winning film star and best-selling author of Then Again describes the ups and downs of living in a beauty-obsessed world, recounting stories about a makeup artist's embarrassing advice, her trip to Victoria's Secret with her teen daughter and more.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Large Print Book Large Print Book Main Library Large Print NonFiction Keaton, D. K25 Available 33111007546647
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, and deeply affecting look at beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to yourself--no matter what anyone else thinks.Diane Keaton has spent a lifetime coloring outside the lines of the conventional notion of beauty. In Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty, she shares the wisdom she's accumulated through the years as a mother, daughter, actress, artist, and international style icon. This is a book only Diane Keaton could write--a smart and funny chronicle of the ups and downs of living and working in a world obsessed with beauty. In her one-of-a-kind voice, Keaton offers up a message of empowerment for anyone who's ever dreamed of kicking back against the "should"s and "supposed to"s that undermine our pursuit of beauty in all its forms. From a mortifying encounter with a makeup artist who tells her she needs to get her eyes fixed to an awkward excursion to Victoria's Secret with her teenage daughter, Keaton shares funny and not-so-funny moments from her life in and out of the public eye. For Diane Keaton, being beautiful starts with being true to who you are, and in this book she also offers self-knowing commentary on the bold personal choices she's made through the years: the wide-brimmed hats, outrageous shoes, and all-weather turtlenecks that have made her an inspiration to anyone who cherishes truly individual style--and catnip to paparazzi worldwide. She recounts her experiences with the many men in her life--including Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, and Sam Shepard--shows how our ideals of beauty change as we age, and explains why a life well lived may be the most beautiful thing of all. Wryly observant and as fiercely original as Diane Keaton herself, Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty is a head-turner of a book that holds up a mirror to our beauty obsessions--and encourages us to like what we see.

Introduction: wrong is right -- Prisoners on my wall -- Corrections -- Bad hair days -- The eyes have it -- Turtlenecks and ties, bikinis and bras -- What is beauty? -- Size ten -- The dream or the neighborhood? -- Old is gold -- In one ear and out the other -- Healing humor -- In love with the night.

The Academy Award-winning film star and best-selling author of Then Again describes the ups and downs of living in a beauty-obsessed world, recounting stories about a makeup artist's embarrassing advice, her trip to Victoria's Secret with her teen daughter and more.

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