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- Sales Rank: #185037 in Books
- Published on: 2008
- Binding: Hardcover
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Compelling at times, and brutally candid
By James J. Bjorkman
Maureen McCormick, of course, is famous for having played "Marcia Brady" on most of the numerous "Brady Bunch" episodes/sequels. She is like Leonard Nimoy, forever struggling with the positives and negatives of embodying an enduring and iconic TV character (William Shatner, on the other hand embraces it, but that's another story altogether). She is that strangest of celebrities, being famous enough to have movies made about her life, and yet unable to find steady work in a profession where celebrity is a major asset.
"Here's the Story" is a chronicle of her life, from child pageant winner to major TV/film star to Hollywood bit player. If she is holding much back, it must be really intense or inviolably private, because, as is the custom nowadays, she discusses her struggles with drugs and family in a candid and straightforward manner.
Those looking for salacious details won't be disappointed, but McCormick is careful not to get too graphic. Her chapters on the five-year run of "The Brady Bunch" 1969-1974 are surprisingly spare. She hones in on the most salacious events, though there weren't all too many of those, and skips the mundane and the non-controversial. This no doubt helps raise the book's profile in the media, but it makes for an uneven read, as if the author is skipping to the good parts for you, and not letting you do it.
For instance, we learn little about each year of the show beyond what attraction she felt for others - apparently all of the men except Sherwood Schwartz caught her eye - and her first gropings with what became of succession of boyfriends. There is a great summary of Barry Williams which he may or may not find flattering, and the description of his swinging bachelor pad (when he was about 15) is a riot. Her relationship with Barry is what everybody wants to know, and she plays that up to the fullest. The problem, though, is that there really isn't that much "there" there.
Otherwise, she has a few sometimes quirky anecdotes about the series and that is about it. Even those don't really satisfy. She mentions in passing that she visited the White House in 1970, but we don't get a feel for Richard Nixon beyond the fact that he made a small slip when answering a question. There is a picture of her on Marine One, the Presidential helicopter, but stuff like that doesn't even get a mention. It must have been cool to have access to stuff like that as a child! Tell us about the perks, Maureen! Or how about your appearances on "The Dating Game"! But we get nothing. Likewise, she gives a few anecdotes about episodes filmed on location in Hawaii and the Grand Canyon, but nothing controversial there.
She does say some embarrassing things about the other females in the Brady cast, especially Eve Plumb. Apparently, McCormick felt that if she was going to bare her own soul, she might as well bare some other peoples', too. One wonders exactly what the others really feel about these candid stories, but they do make for good reading. One understands Eve Plumb's current attitude a bit better after reading this.
It is only after the show ends that the story picks up and McCormick hits cruising altitude. Unfortunately, though, she picks and chooses there, as well. We get a paragraph about a (apparently first) boyfriend here, a page there, but it all seems jumbled, as if she barely remembers what happened during her first dates. I don't know about you, but I remember my teen dating days pretty well, so her claim that she doesn't even know who took her virginity seems just a tiny bit far-fetched. The pictures provided make one curious what she feels about having been with these guys now, but she is very careful to avoid any judgments like that. But the book would have been so much better if she had. "I can't believe I was with that guy, he was such a Guido who ate with his fingers!" That kind of thing. But, again, we get nothing beyond the superficial.
The same problem continues throughout the book. Basically, she says "I was out of control," but we get very few examples. What is missing is the juicy detail, the truly telling anecdote. Making the flat statement "I had sex for drugs" is not the same as actually relating the experience. It is the same as an author telling, and not showing. McCormick tells, she does not show. She might claim that she doesn't remember, but if she doesn't remember, what is she actually writing about anyway?
The final third of the book focuses almost exclusively on her relationship with the man who would become her husband, her problems with her family over the family trust, and confronting her own inner demons. It is this section that is both the most complete and the least interesting. Whereas previously she had truly shocking things to describe and didn't, in this part she has totally mundane things to relate, and does. On and on. And on. And on.
The book does one thing very well. It gives you enough information so that you can read between the lines about her personal life. Thus, by simply stating "I was a drug addict" but not going into extreme detail about how much she really did every day, or saying, "we fooled around" without providing details, we are invited to fill in the blanks. There are an awful lot of blank-filling opportunities.
In addition, her tales about her recent struggles with her brother, Kevin, and her father are told almost dispassionately, but one gets the nagging sense that there is more to the story. We get a few anecdotes that imply that Kevin is mean-spirited, borderline crazy, and basically a Svengali with her dad, but apparently the courts don't agree (her dad's real attitude is a complete mystery). It comes out as the standard "kids fighting over the inheritance before old man is dead." And, yes, she says over and over how worried she is that her dad is being mistreated and so on, but there are damn few concrete illustrations of this. If he simply want to be with Kevin and not her, for whatever reason, isn't that his right?
This is the true weakness of the book, the absence of "the other side." Everything about her family struggles is filtered through McCormick's perspective, which, to me at least, isn't always completely trustworthy. Anyone who hears only one side of a domestic dispute knows you need to hear the other side or at least take things with a very large grain of salt. This is no exception. McCormick really is flaunting the power of celebrity here, able to paint her situation in her own colors, while the other side is unable to respond. That undermines her tale and is a true flaw. If she had invited her father and brother to respond in the book, without censoring, this could have been a much, much more compelling read. Apparently, everyone including Dr. Phil agrees with her completely about every major conclusion that she draws in this area, but, strangely, her viewpoint never really wins out. Strange - unless you keep reminding herself that this is her side, and her side only.
To the extent that you are transfixed by her stories about her brothers, which, to be honest, aren't all that interesting, this book could use some sort of follow-up or even sequel, even if just an online blog or something of that nature. She has pretty much covered what most people are interested in, though, and unless she feels like really getting down to the nitty gritty, this will have to do. Like it or not, the country is still interested in her story, and she does a good job delivering. It just could have been so much better.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Did you like Marcia Brady? You will LOVE Maureen McCormick!
By De Omnibus Dubitandum.
We all like the "Brady Bunch". We all like "Marcia". Maureen McCormick is so much MORE than just "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!"
She has lived a real life and faced struggles, addictions, and obstacles that would defeat "Wonder Woman" and Maureen fought on, survived, and regain her life and her family despite terrible losses and tragedy. I admire her!
Maureen writes beautifully and honestly and you can not put this book down until you finish! I hope there is a sequel in maybe another 10 years or so, and I wish Maureen and her family well. I also thank her for all the joy she has given to the world as a "Brady", without which, Maureen, we might never have know of you!
"Every Blessing to you and your family!
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