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a personal self protrait of Anthonu Quinn, 373 pages ... Read more

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too indulgent to be of use
I undderstand as an autobiography one gets to write it their way but this goes too far. This is a several hundred page sobfest from someone who didn't seem to suffer much.
Quinn grew in poverty, yes like so many others, but it's apparent what he was starved for was spiritual attention and guidance, like so many others. Reading his life story as a youth you see a fellow who has too much energy then wastes it craving happiness. Growing up in the 1920's Hollywoood was this big dream machine that did actually take in young talent and gave them a chance. Regardless of their skin color Hollywood was indeed a supficial lover who did deliver the goods to those lucky enough to be talented and in the right place.
Quinn had the inner turmoil to act, and let that turmoil bubble out. But Quinn's downfall was that as great and powerful actor he may have been, he was a terribly weak man. He had it rough for sure, dealing w/ a flamboyant uncle and a father who died too early for the son to ever eclipse, butinstead of seeing the impediment to his success removed or the rival now gone, he saw this as a ghost he could not defeat and who might revive and destroy him.
His life and the book had far too much tawdry sex, I just don't care about anyone's first sexual experiences; and much of what he describes would today be classified as sexual abuse. Perhaps these segments added to his sense of shame and that kept the inner turmoil going.
Anthony Quinn tells of having to choose between joining the white kids to fight the Mexicans or joining the Mexicans to fight off the Whites; after it all he has beaten up himself and who was the winner?

Quinn Was Haunted By Ghosts
Anthony Quinn was a great actor as well as an excellent visual artist, writer and not very good professional boxer in his youth. He had his problems, most of which were psychological. He didn't believe in death and was haunted by ghosts throughout his long life. He even carried on conversations with those ghosts. His most frequent ghostly visitor was "Boy" who was the embodiment of his own youth. He argued constantly with "Boy" about whether he had achieved his true purpose in life. The "Boy" kept Anthony "relativity sane" by always reminding him of the truth and mocking him when the actor/artist began to believe his own legend. Quinn was also a driven man. He spent his life seeking the perfect love of a woman; a woman for whom he would the first, last and only man in her life. Even his loving mother and grandmother both of whom literally worshipped the ground he walked upon, failed to meet Quinn's standards because of course they had both shared their love with men other than Quinn (his grandfather and father to be specific).
Quinn opens this autobiography with a lengthy session with his psychoanalyst. This is the same vehicle he uses to tie the various parts of his life story together. It's all rather depressing because of this clinical approach. Quinn had a fabulous and interesting life that started with his birth in a mud-floored hut in Mexico while his father was fighting with Poncho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. His mother had been fighting at his side on the front lines until her pregnancy had resulted in her being sent home to have her baby.
Because he grew into a famous movie star, the book is fascinating with lots of Hollywood reference points. I happened to have read Quinn's second autobiography "One Man Tango" before I discovered this one. The second autobiography is so good that I decided to read this one to see if had additional information about the actor's life. It did, but it was of a mostly depressing nature. If you only read one of Quinn's autobiographies "One Man Tango" is far better. It was written shortly before his death and the writer was a much older and wiser man. He was still haunted by his ghosts, especially "Boy" who he encountered even while taking his daylong bicycle trips around the hills of his Italian villa.
Reading this book will give the reader a peek at the great actors driving forces as well as his demons, but it will also leave the reader depressed. When I found that Quinn had written two autobiographies I thought that fact a bit odd, but it's easy to see why he did the second one. This one only scratches the surface and subsurface of his character. This volume is good for additional information, but "One Man Tango" is infinitely superior in every way, not the least of which is it was published in 1997 a year after the birth of his thirteenth child when Quinn was a senior, senior citizen (age 82), but barely willing to acknowledge it. When one realizes all the baggage Quinn was carrying it amazing he was able to accomplish anything. Quinn was a true larger-than-life Mexican-American success story and he wouldn't let you forget that fact. He was tireless in his 86-year search for the perfect love of a woman, and his search involved bedding the most beautiful women in Hollywood and the rest of the world. He wanted to make love to and impregnate every woman in the world. He was a vigorous, randy man with an unquenchable thirst and a posse of real ghosts. A good read, but there are better ones. Quinn believed "the inability to accept love is 'the original sin', sadder than all others." He believed that in life and art he had to keep moving forward or he would surely die and join the members of his ghostly entourage without ever having found or accepted true love.
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on June 13, 2001. The length of the article is 554 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Anthony Quinn: Hombre universal.(actor)(TT: Anthony Quinn: universal man.)(TA: actor)
Author: Guillermo García Oropeza
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: June 13, 2001
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 47Issue: 2504Page: 36

Article Type: Biography

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128 page magazine en Espanol with model Eva Ekvall (Miss Venezuela 2000) on the cover and features on Kate Hudson, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Quinn, Princess Caroline of Monaco, and Prince William, plus fashion layouts, celebrity news and photos, and much more! Text in Spanish. ... Read more