'Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty. And I should be dead.'
So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, taking us along on his journey from childhood ambition to fame to addiction and recovery in the aftermath of a life-threatening health scare. Before the frequent hospital visits and stints in rehab, th...
'Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty. And I should be dead.'
So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, taking us along on his journey from childhood ambition to fame to addiction and recovery in the aftermath of a life-threatening health scare. Before the frequent hospital visits and stints in rehab, there was five-year-old Matthew, who travelled from Montreal to Los Angeles, shuffling between his separated parents; fourteen-year-old Matthew, who was a nationally ranked tennis star in Canada; twenty-four-year-old Matthew, who nabbed a coveted role as a lead cast member on the talked-about pilot then called Friends Like Us. . . and so much more.
In an extraordinary story that only he could tell - and in the heartfelt, hilarious, and warmly familiar way only he could tell it - Matthew Perry lays bare the fractured family that raised him (and also left him to his own devices), the desire for recognition that drove him to fame, and the void inside him that could not be filled even by his greatest dreams coming true. But he also details the peace he's found in sobriety and how he feels about the ubiquity of Friends, sharing stories about his castmates and other stars he met along the way. Frank, self-aware, and with his trademark humour, Perry vividly depicts his lifelong battle with addiction and what fuelled it despite seemingly having it all.
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is an unforgettable memoir that is both intimate and eye-opening - as well as a hand extended to anyone struggling with sobriety. Unflinchingly honest, moving, and uproariously funny, this is the book fans have been waiting for.
作者简介
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Matthew Perry is a Canadian American actor, executive producer, and comedian.
目录
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Foreword by Lisa Kudrow
Prologue
1. The View
INTERLUDE: New York
2. Another Generation Shot to Hell
INTERLUDE: Matman
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Foreword by Lisa Kudrow
Prologue
1. The View
INTERLUDE: New York
2. Another Generation Shot to Hell
INTERLUDE: Matman
3. Baggage
INTERLUDE: Dead
4. Like I’ve Been There Before
INTERLUDE: Zoom
5. No Fourth Wall
INTERLUDE: Holes
6. Bruce Willis
INTERLUDE: All Heaven Breaking Loose
7. The Benefit of Friends
INTERLUDE: Pockets
8. Odyssey
INTERLUDE: Trauma Camp
9. Three’s Not Company, Three Ruins Everything
INTERLUDE: Violence in Hollywood
10. The Big Terrible Thing
INTERLUDE: The Smoking Section
11. Batman
Acknowledgements
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I never imagined I’d be fifty-two and single and not playing fun, dumb games with very short, cute kids running around repeating nonsense words that I had
taught them all just to make my beautiful wife laugh.
For years I thought I wasn’t enough, but I don’t feel that way anymore. I think I’m just the right amount. But still, each morning, when I wake up, there are a few brief moments when I am hazy, lost to dreams and sleep, and don’t exactly know where I am, I remember my stomach and the scar tissue that comes with it. (I finally have rock-hard abs, but they aren’t from sit-ups.) And then I swing my legs off the bed and tiptoe to the bathroom, so that I don’t wake … um, no one. Yessiree, I am as single as can be. I look in the bathroom mirror, hoping to see something there that would exp... (查看原文)
马修派瑞去年刚出了一本回忆录『Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing』，亲自口述，音犹在耳。贴上Goodreads上的一篇 书评 ，权当向老友告别。 一句话概括：这本书讲述了老友记、马修派瑞的感情史，以及那件“最可怕的事情”——他与酗酒和毒瘾的斗争。这部分诚实到令...
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