David Carradine The Eye of My Tornado eBook Marina Anderson
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Pop culture/Memoir/autobiography.
This is a significant and very personal book.
This book has been inducted into the Johnny Grant Hollywood
Walk of Fame Library.
"...it was one long rollercoaster thrill... Mr. Toad's
wild ride...intense passion and emotion. He was the eye of my tornado."
Marina Anderson.
David Carradine The Eye of My Tornado eBook Marina Anderson
There is quite a bit of redundancy and the timelines jump around. I attribute this to the highly emotional nature of the contents. The author clearly loved this man's potential, not his reality; a very human condition. I hope the process was cathartic for the author. A frenetic writing style, but the emotions came through to me, even after I put down the Kindle.I find it interesting that after he left Ms. Anderson-Carradine, he got involved with Scientology. The fifth wife is a Scientologist. So, is Keith Carradine and his wife. Kansas Carradine was/is also involved in Scientology. And, Quentin Tarantino is also a Scientologist. Mr. Carradine wanted a big comeback, and let's face it...it seems if one isn't somehow connected with Scientology in Hollywood, that person remains outside looking in.
David Carradine was just like everyone else...only more so. Thank you, Ms. Anderson-Carradine, for all you did to keep him with us a while longer. Mr. Carradine lived and died on his own terms. Few do. He died 'remarkably'...better the way he did than languishing in some nursing home waiting for GOD.
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David Carradine The Eye of My Tornado eBook Marina Anderson Reviews
I wanted to like this book but to be honest it was more about the author. I grew up watching Kung fu and loved it I always felt David carradine had amazing screen presence and if it wasent for his personnel demons I'm sure he would have been a bigger star.
The author just constantly went on about herself and her pets and how special they were it all gets to much in the end. The spiritualists she consulted all telling her exactly what she wanted to hear give me a break!
I felt that a lot of the personal things that he was into sexual practices etc should not have been told for his memory and his family .
It's interesting that none of his family wanted anything to do with her after their separation says a lot. I also think her probing and speculation into the circumstances of his death just went on and on. They all wanted nothing to do with her as well. I finished the book but to be honest I found her painful and it is all her side to the story as often in these stories the other side is not around to defend themselves.
This book is absolutely awful.
Very mixed feelings about this book. It is an interesting read, but more along the lines of more Hollywood darkness and effed up-ness.
I'm a fan of Carradine, loved his Kung Fu series and Kung Fu The Legend Continues as well as Kill Bill and other movies of his. Say whatever you want about him, the man could act and he had talent and charisma. The author of this book I had never heard of, other than in the context of KFTLC and as another ex-wife of his. (There were four others before she came along.)
And she knew that. Marina went into the marriage knowing Carradine and thinking she could change him, fix him. She wasn't a teenager, she was a grown woman who had been married before. She was very good friends with Carradine's then-wife Gail, and honestly, what a low thing to do, to even date him when she knew they were still married (Carradine told her they were separated, but also that he was still in love with Gail.) Does any one with any class snake their husband from their best friend? I don't think so. If she was attracted to him then she should have avoided him until David and Gail were officially separated.
She knew Carradine was physically abusive to Gail. She knew he was a raging drunk with a volatile and violent temper. She knew he was late ALL the time, for everything (even to work, holding production up at least an hour EVERY SINGLE DAY) while working on KFTLC. She knew he was not clean, he was a messy and militant smoker (at least 2 packs a day), often burning holes in his surroundings or even setting things on fire a couple times. She knew he couldn't organize himself to save his life, leaving his belongings wherever, losing track of his appointments. She knew he was an irresponsible pet owner, even recounting a time when he went on an errand with one of the dogs and forgetting him behind--and yet, she desperately wanted *children* with this man! (I can see the headlines on that now "Kung Fu actor Carradine forgets child at airport.") Everyone who knew Carradine warned her away from him. She truly believe that she was the one magical person who would mend his ways and transform him into...someone else. Because their love was just so intense, or something.
She complains about managing his career and it taking every moment of her life (Carradine lost his agent and manager after KFTLC because of his drinking and bad reputation and no one would hire him), because in addition to taking care of his professional life, she also managed every aspect of him--reminding him to get up, dressing him and styling his hair and makeup, telling him what people to chat up, managing his calendar, picking up after him and organizing every aspect of his life. She was a combination of mother and stage mom! And he was an emotional child.
Then there was the aspect of money. She was his manager and agent but he hardly paid her and when he did it was minuscule like pulling teeth. He had no money because it all went to taxes and to alimony. Yet when he started working again, they lived lavish, buying expensive art, getting cosmetic surgery, and traveling to far away places. It seems like as soon as money came in it went right back out again, on extravagant purchases and the menagerie of animals they owned. She claims she single-handedly turned his career around, and that it is because of her he won the role in Kill Bill. I have a hard time believing that. He had a huge body of work, and everyone was aware of his talent despite his addiction and personality problems. She is a nobody.She claims that it was because of her he stopped drinking too (for two years only.) I'm not sure if I believe that either. He was always able to perform while drunk (he spent most of KFTLC in a plastered state, even having to have his lines written on cue cards b/c he couldn't remember anything.)
Then of course there is the sex. That's the hook, isn't it. No one would have cared to read and ex-wife's whining if he'd died of natural causes, but Carradine died in a Bangkok hotel room under very suspicious circumstances, naked and with ropes around his neck, apparently in a failed autoerotic asphyxiation attempt. Marina talks about how deviant he was--his incest with unknown "X", (apparently when X was underage). She talks about his cock piercings and chains, and his fondness for pain during sex. She hints he may have been bi-sexual. She describes how he pissed in the sink.
And yet through it all, over and over, she reiterates how much she truly, madly, deeply and completely loved this man, despite the fact he treated her like nothing and she outed his sexual deviances in court during the battle for money in the divorce proceedings. She couldn't leave him alone even long after the divorce, calling him despite the numerous lies, open hostility and his many subliminal messages that he had moved on. She even still tried to engage with his kids, showing up unexpectedly at one of David's son Tom's art showings. It's rather telling that Bobby, David's brother, cut her off completely after she gave interviews after David's death (it's always after the celebrity dies, isn't it. When they can no longer defend themselves.)
Let's not forget the many psychic readings she includes in the book! It's interesting that every one of them tells her exactly what she wants to hear at the time. Shouldn't they have warned her about how badly things would end??? Or just warned her away in the first place? She had a long description of how David appeared to her in ghost /spirit form (after his death), brushing her cheek, while she was at a book signing. Because a psychic she knows told her so. Sigh.
David Carradine was a difficult, damaged individual, brilliant and talented. I can believe he had problems, that he was an alcoholic, that his sexual appetites were often perverted, that his temper was out of control and so was his life, even as I know that I loved watching his work. (Just think how good an actor he was. He had us all convinced in his role of Kwai Chang Caine, the antithesis of his own personality.)
What I'm not convinced of is Marina Anderson's seeming perfection.
Excellent biography of a unique individual.
Marina Anderson is not a "nobody" who hooked up with a celeb but a woman who has acted and done just about every thing one can do in the movie industry. Check out her resume on IMDB. These were people destined to meet and they were truly in love. David Carradine was a very complicated man but so is Marina, a complicated and interesting woman in her own right. It's all and all a GOOD READ!!
This book further deepens the impression that David Carradine was a sex addict and a drug/alcohol addict with no moral compass, yet she claimed it's a love story. The only sentence I like in this book is her description of DC's eternal sadness, even during happy times. I can understand his sadness. He came to this world to find his way back home, his original true home. Yet he could not find it in this world. Anderson is a material girl. She doesn't have DC's spiritual depth. She took credit for helping him get the role in Kill Bill. But I believe if he didn't do that movie, he could have lived to this day. With HW as the producer of Kill Bill, the movie meant business. It did kill DC eventually -- a price has to be paid for all the fame...And as DC said himself, women were always his downfall.
There is quite a bit of redundancy and the timelines jump around. I attribute this to the highly emotional nature of the contents. The author clearly loved this man's potential, not his reality; a very human condition. I hope the process was cathartic for the author. A frenetic writing style, but the emotions came through to me, even after I put down the .
I find it interesting that after he left Ms. Anderson-Carradine, he got involved with Scientology. The fifth wife is a Scientologist. So, is Keith Carradine and his wife. Kansas Carradine was/is also involved in Scientology. And, Quentin Tarantino is also a Scientologist. Mr. Carradine wanted a big comeback, and let's face it...it seems if one isn't somehow connected with Scientology in Hollywood, that person remains outside looking in.
David Carradine was just like everyone else...only more so. Thank you, Ms. Anderson-Carradine, for all you did to keep him with us a while longer. Mr. Carradine lived and died on his own terms. Few do. He died 'remarkably'...better the way he did than languishing in some nursing home waiting for GOD.
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