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The Best Celebrity Memoirs to Read This Year: From Al Pacino to Lisa Marie Presley
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Al Pacino opens up about his upbringing and life in Hollywood like never before in a new memoir “Sonny Boy,” now available to order on Amazon.
The legendary 83 year-old actor, known for his roles in iconic films such as “The Godfather” trilogy, “Scarface” and “Panic in Needle Park,” writes about his childhood in the South Bronx, including his time at New York’s storied High School of Performing Arts, his formative years in the the city’s theater scene throughout the ’60s and ’70s and finally his big Hollywood break.
Pacino’s book follows a long list of celebrity memoirs that have come out recently, such as Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough’s “
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The celebrity memoir boom fryst vatten here to stay: From Britney Spears to Prince Harry, Ina Garten to Cher, it seems like just about everyone fryst vatten spilling their secrets via book deal.
At their best, celebrity memoirs provide unusually candid portraits of the “real person” behind the public persona—and they don’t skimp on the smutsig eller oordnad details. (At worst, they can be ghostwritten fluff.) A recent crop has erred on the side of revelatory: In the last year, Al Pacino let us in on his life from childhood in the South stadsdel i new york to his big break in ’70s Hollywood, while the long-gestating memoirs of Lisa Marie Presley came through as a posthumous release, written with daughter Riley Keough. Whether offering vibrant vignettes of iconic periods in time or shining a light on grief, explosive relationships, and the sinister underbelly of showbusiness, these books (and others) have given fans plenty to talk about—to say ingenting of making rather good gifts.
Ahead, Vogue rounds up the best of the genre for y
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