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In this 400 page book there are only about 20 pages that mention Burt Reynolds, but what stands out most to me is his reaction to “downer” remarks from the past Sally Field tried to get out to him: He’d grab his stomach and then take two fingers and act like he was about to puke. Unfortunately, this is the reaction I had to this entire whiny book. The whole 400 pages sound like they were taped as Fields laid on a couch and confessed her lowest moments – many imagined and false – to a very patient therapist. I did not have that kind of patience whatsoever, but read this book on Christmas day straight through. If Sally Field had been handy, I would have given her a sound spanking…. She shows zero appreciation for her major influences in her life and those who gave her sound advice and help. Most notably is her step-father Jacques O’Mahoney who was a college-educated Marine veteran who was quite successful after the war and into the early 60’s doubling for famous Hollywood leads, doing movie stunts the “old way” and starring in various Westerns and twice as Tarzan. Even though he gives Field some of her best advice and guidance (he knew everyone in Hollywood as Field made her way into auditions and short-lived TV series) she continues to deride him through the entire book and makes accusations that simply don’t stick to the wall 50 years later. Her long-suffering mother (who did some acting as well) was there for Field every step of the way and packed her bags and flew to her at moment’s notice when the trauma of the various movie problems over-whelmed Fields. But all Field seems to say of her mother are negative things… I bought this book to hear about the relationship of the recently deceased Burt Reynolds and Field as I care little for Field’s roles. How disappointed I was to learn she barely mentions the fact that she was dating Hollywood’s number one highest grossing actor, instead griping about his every aspect and how he didn’t want to attend every loopy awards show or back her sometimes loopy choices of TV shows and movies. Then Reynolds, like O’Mahoney, just disappear from the book. That rings false to me. The highlight of Field's life was being with Reynolds, but all she could do is complain about feeding him some dinners and walking his dog. You gotta be kidding me.... Here’s an example: Field gets Reynolds to go with her to a big screening of one of the TV series she did and she sits between Reynolds and Paul Newman and STILL complains the whole night about her imaged beefs from her past…. Really? Those are the least of crimes this spoiled self-centered actress perpetrated during her decades of spotty work in Hollywood. She abandoned her children to her mother, her sister, housekeepers as she ran off after man after man and movie after movie. Was it worth it? The book seems as though Field can’t get past her fragmented early childhood despite the love of her mother, her brother and sister and O’Mahoney. It gets old… The entire book has a false ring to it. How could someone with a loving family and all the attention she had be so miserable? I don’t get it…