Then Again - Diane Keaton [0]
Copyright © 2011 by Diane Keaton
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Keaton, Diane.
Then again / by Diane Keaton.
p. 00-6878-4
eISBN: 978-1-58836-942-0
1. Keaton, Diane. 2. Keaton, Diane—Family. 3. Motion picture actors and actresses—United States—Biography. I. Title.
PN2287.K44A3 2011
791.43’028092—dc23 2011023752
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
Think
Part One
Chapter 1 - Dorothy
Chapter 2 - Jack
Part Two
Chapter 3 - Manhattan
Chapter 4 - Big Year
Chapter 5 - The List
Chapter 6 - The Uphill Climb Versus the Downhill Slide
Chapter 7 - Di-Annie Hall
Chapter 8 - Something Big for a Small Family
Part Three
Chapter 9 - Artistic
Chapter 10 - This Isn’t Sometimes, This Is Always
Chapter 11 - Aftermath
Chapter 12 - Hello
Chapter 13 - The Gray Zone
Chapter 14 - Then Again
Dedication
In Memory Of
Photo Insert 1
Photo Insert 2
Photo Insert 3
Photography and Artwork Captions and Credits
Acknowledgments
About the Author
I always say my life is this family, and that’s the truth.
Dorothy Deanne Keaton Hall
THINK
Mom loved adages, quotes, slogans. There were always little reminders pasted on the kitchen wall. For example, the word THINK. I found THINK thumbtacked on a bulletin board in her darkroom. I saw it Scotch-taped on a pencil box she’d collaged. I even found a pamphlet titled THINK on her bedside table. Mom liked to THINK. In a notebook she wrote, I’m reading Tom Robbins’s book Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. The passage about marriage ties in with women’s struggle for accomplishment. I’m writing this down for future THINKING … She followed with a Robbins quote: “For most poor dumb brainwashed women marriage is the climactic experience. For men, marriage is a matter of efficient logistics: the male gets his food, bed, laundry, TV … offspring and creature comforts all under one roof…. But for a woman, marriage is surrender. Marriage is when a girl gives up the fight … and from then on leaves the truly interesting and significant action to her husband, who has bargained to ‘take care’ of her…. Women live longer than men because they really haven’t been living.” Mom liked to THINK about life, especially the experience of being a woman. She liked to write about it too.
In the mid-seventies on a visit home, I was printing some photographs I’d taken of Atlantic City in Mother’s darkroom when I found something I’d never seen. It was some kind of, I don’t know, sketchbook. On the cover was a collage she’d made out of family photographs with the words It’s the Journey That Counts, Not the Arrival. I picked it up and flipped through the pages. Although it included several collages made from snapshots and magazine cutouts, it was filled with page after page of writing.
Had a productive day at Hunter’s Bookstore. We rearranged the art section and discovered many interesting books hidden away. It’s been two weeks since I was hired. I make 3 dollars and thirty-five cents an hour. Today I got paid 89 dollars in total.
This wasn’t one of Mom’s typical scrapbooks, with the usual napkins from Clifton’s Cafeteria, old black-and-white photographs, and my less-than-thrilling report cards. This was a journal.
An entry dated August 2, 1976, read: WATCH OUT