Making It So: A Memoir

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Because I didn’t do enough to protect my mother,” he says. “Because I didn’t respect my brothers enough, though I liked them very much.” He is even ashamed, he says, of skipping the entrance exam to grammar school, deciding instead to roam Mirfield’s hills alone. “I suspect that might just have been fear. Fear that I might pass, be elevated into this different world, which I couldn’t have handled, I know I couldn’t have handled it. Perhaps I did myself a big favour.” Now, he presents his long-awaited memoir, Making It So, a revealing portrait of a driven artist whose astonishing life – from his humble and hardscrabble beginnings in Yorkshire, to the dizzying heights of Hollywood and worldwide acclaim – proves a story as exuberant, definitive and enduring as the author himself.

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His life was fascinating and he’s a total dog, having numerous affairs with much younger women breaking up his family in the process but taking responsibility instead of glossing over his less stellar moments. He also talks in detail about Star Trek even about specific episodes so trek fans will find this a treat. If you expect to find juicy gossip in this book, you'll be disappointed. There isn't any. Well, may just a small blurb about Tom Hardy. Stewart spoke with Entertainment Weekly about his forthcoming book in a new interview, where he spoke about his experience writing the memoir.

I would have liked to have said to him, ‘Dad, there were so many aspects of you and your life that have taken me by the hand and led me on my way through adulthood and into old age. You are, in many respects, an example to me. And in other respects, you are still a bad man.’” It’s not a get-out,” he says. “But an understanding, yes.” Then he goes on, “I always used to feel that my father and his violence is what had the biggest impact on my life. There have been times when I have been violent. Rarely to other people, and never to my children. But I can get angry. And it comes from my father.” The book paints the picture of a man genuinely dedicated to the Arts, in particular to his career as a Shakespearean actor. It is clear that he finds true joy and passion in embodying complex characters and that his whole life experience is coloured by his gentle sensibilities. He is rather serious by nature and finds true meaning in works of art and performances by actors he admires, which naturally leads him to imbue meaning in everything he does.

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While I knew about much of his major stage work, I enjoyed following his journey from local groups as a young teen to some of the world's most prominent theaters and productions. He also spends a good deal of time on his early home life and family, and reveals his later struggles balancing the punishing work schedules and his marriages and children. He is open and honest about his triumphs and his failures. It is fascinating to read an 83 year old man have an almost childlike wonder and awe at the world around him and the people he meets. Full disclosure: I am a HUGE Star Trek fan. I can remember watching one episode of the TOS when it first came out, and then watching reruns as a teenager after school.

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I’ve got ideas. I’d like to do more comedy. Laughter is glorious’: with his wife Sunny Ozell. Photograph: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images Now, he presents his long-awaited memoir, Making It So, a revealing portrait of an artist whose astonishing life—from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire, England, to the heights of Hollywood and worldwide acclaim—proves a story as exuberant, definitive, and enduring as the author himself.