More recently, she only agreed to star in Miss You Already in order to play opposite Toni Collette, who she describes as "one of the greatest actresses." Drew has focused on her family over her career As a result, she has cut back on her work as an actress. Necessity being the mother of invention, the idea to launch her own film company, Flower Films, which has produced Never Been Kissed, Charlie's Angels, Donnie Darko, 50 First Dates, and How to Be Single, among others, came out of not just wanting better roles, but roles where she wasn't the "bad girl" because that was not how she saw herself.īut even today after her many successes, Drew had problems getting quality roles like her 2009 turn as Little Edie in Grey Gardens. And even though she credits the 18 months she spent in lockdown with not only cleaning up her substance abuse issues but also with instilling her with discipline, when she got out, she was a pariah, not able to land any roles, much less decent roles for at least three years thereafter. Because she achieved fame at such a tender age, her stay in rehab at 12 and being institutionalized by her mother at the age of 13 were fodder for the tabloids. Despite achieving fame at a young age, Drew has had a rough careerĭespite this remarkable ancestry, Drew has had a rough go of it as an actress. 16 pages of color photos.The Drew line extends back even further to strolling country players in Great Britain in the 1700s, such as great-great-great-great grandfather Thomas Haycraft Lane and great-great-great-great grandmother Louisa Rouse Lane, but that is as far as recorded history takes us, so it is possible it goes back even beyond that. The fact that 12-year-old Barrymore bought drugs from a dealer is described as""so far beyond sordid it's almost unimaginable,"" and her settling for a rose tattoo when she wanted daisies is a""fiasco."" Only devoted""Drewbies"" will find stuff to phone home about. Attempts to spice up the book with overwrought writing look silly. But too many sound like they came from quickie movie-promotion interviews, as she gushes over costars, directors and lovers. Barrymore's quotes, about topics ranging from her bisexuality to her spirituality, are interspersed with some wry observations and show her interesting mix of worldliness and immaturity. In rehab at 13, Barrymore revitalized her career, but her personal life has been filled with a string of boyfriends and two brief marriages-including a memorable one to zany comedian Tom Green. A fifth-generation actress-and alcoholic-from the distinguished Drew and Barrymore acting families, she was raised by an actress mother (without dad John Drew Barrymore) who partied with her young daughter at Hollywood nightspots. But the biography itself-one of a few about the under-30 actress-is a retread of secondary-source quotes, many from Barrymore's teenage autobiography, Little Girl Lost. fame at age seven led to a drug-filled adolescence, a rebirth as a teen sex symbol and an eventual maturation as a film actress. And those photos, revealing changes in Barrymore's weight, appearance and demeanor, suggest a complicated story of the Charlie's Angels star's journey. A glib account of the tumultuous life of this child star turned Hollywood A-lister, Ellis and Sutherland's slapdash biography devotes more space to photo credits than to bibliography.
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