“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 60s 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.
關於作者：
Meredith Baxter has been an actor for 40
years and has five children. She achieved early success in
the comedy Bridget Loves Bernie; the acclaimed ABC drama
Family and the popular NBC sitcom Family Ties. Baxter
makes appearances speaking on breast cancer, domestic violence,
alcoholism and general life experiences. She lives in Santa
Monica, California with her partner, Nancy Locke.
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