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Chapters: University of Montana-Missoula Faculty, University of Montana Faculty, Carroll O'connor, Gary Strobel, K. Ross Toole, Karen Volkman, Walter Kirn, Julia Galloway, Judy Blunt, Tony Crunk, Chris Offutt, Janine Benyus, Patricia Goedicke, Donald O. Johnston, Rodney K. Smith, Jack Ward Thomas, Joanna Klink, Rudy Autio, Kevin Canty, Harry Haines, John G. Watkins, Eduardo Chirinos. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 77. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 June 21, 2001) best known as Carroll O'Connor, was an American actor, producer and director whose television career spanned four decades. Known at first for playing the role of Major General Colt in the 1970 cult movie, Kelly's Heroes, he later found fame as the bigoted workingman Archie Bunker, the main character in the 1970s CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971 to 1979) and Archie Bunker's Place (1979 to 1983). O'Connor later starred in the NBC television crime drama In the Heat of the Night from 1988 to 1995, where he played the role of Police Chief William (Bill) Gillespie from 1988 to 1994, and Sheriff Gillespie in 1995. At the end of his career in the late 1990s, he played the father of Jamie Stemple Buchman (Helen Hunt) on Mad About You. O'Connor, an Irish Catholic American, was the eldest of three sons born in Manhattan, New York to Elise Patricia and Edward Joseph O'Connor, who was a New York City lawyer. Both of his brothers were doctors; Hugh, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1961, and Robert, a psychiatrist in New York City. O'Connor spent much of his youth in Elmhurst and Forest Hills, Queens, in the same borough in which his character Archie Bunker would later live. In 1941 O'Connor enrolled at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, but dropped out when the United S...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=245805 ... Read more

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It is the genius of Carroll O'Connor that millions of fans will forever confuse him with his most unforgettable creation, Archie Bunker. But O'Connor has lived the kind of rich, momentous life that Archie could never have imagined -- from growing up in Depression-era New York and serving in the merchant marines during World War II to nurturing a fifty-year marriage and enjoying scores of classic Hollywood moments with the likes of Rob Reiner and Jean Stapleton (All in the Family), Howard Rollins (In the Heat of the Night), Clint Eastwood (Kelly's Heroes), and Elizabeth Taylor (Cleopatra).

But Hollywood is also the source of O'Connor's most painful memory: the cocaine addiction and suicide of his son, Hugh. Here, he speaks honestly about both his loss and his efforts to educate others about the horrors of drug abuse.

Candid and insightful, spirited and funny, O'Connor emerges from behind the actor's mask to reveal television history in the making, and with his Irish charm, tell the story of all the families he has been able to call his own. In a career graced with landmark achievements, I Think I'm Outta Here stands as one of the most moving and memorable of all. ... Read more

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good read
Gives good insight into the life of Mr. O'Connor.Very well written.A bit tedious at times, but, again, it was very well written.Worth the time and money to read his story.

Great Memoir
For those looking for a page by page account of O'Connor's groudbreaking work as Archie, this book will not quench your thrist. However, if you are looking for an erudite and honest memior on Carroll O'Connor the man this is book is a must. Carroll writes in a scholastic yet tangible style that captures your interest in the things beyond Archie. I would dare say this book is a must have for any actor or actress as it details the world of the golden stage on or off camera through the eyes of the actor. Sometimes O'Connor was frusturated with the souless monguls at the network or the ticket pandering stage producer, yet he always stands for what matters most to the actor and audience, the final product. Any skilled or novice actor/actress will gain insight into the journey of the stage. When you finish this work you will quickly learn and hopefully absorb the passion O'Connor hadfor not only his work but for his desire to aid humanity as a often quiet and sometimes not so quiet reformer. We need more like him.

Interesting, but not about All in the Family
I'm a huge fan of that show, and believe O'Connor's long portrayal of Archie is the greatest and most groundbreaking acting performance in television history. So the fact that he offers almost no insight into that work in this memoir is a major letdown.
Still, he had a fascinating life and this is a very good read, even though he certainly doesn't always come off as a likeable or tolerant fellow. He has deep, strident beliefs, little affection for those who differ, and he bluntly tells us so.

The final chapter about his beloved son's descent into addiction, madness, and suicide, and a father's inability to stop it, is truly wrenching. That could have been a book by itself.

All In The Mind
I'm not going to say much here; Only that this book may be the least interesting autobiography I have ever read. You know Carrol from "All In The Family" moreso than any other role he has portayed, yet he avoids discussing his tenure on that ground-breaking show from the 70's, instead telling us many things about his early history.
It appears he may feel the show overshadowed everything else he did, so to answer that, left it out of his book.
I was disappointed reading it and would not recommend the book to anyone.

I loved this book!!
It tells the whole story thru the eyes of Carroll O'Connor!
It is a wonderful book to get lost in.
I started out a fan of All in the Family and ended a fan of O'Connor!! ... Read more

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In this warm, informative, exciting and hilarious memoir,Life is a Circus, Shirley Carroll O'Connor, who married a circus ringmaster in 1945, takes you on the early adventures of the first woman publicist under the Big Top for Clyde Beatty, Cole Bros. and Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circuses. ... Read more

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Bravo
Bravo Shriley!!!!
This is Patty --Rosemary Wright's daughter. I know Mom is smiling Shriley. I have a picture of you and Mom sitting behind me at my wedding. email me Love you, Patty

Great Memories
"Life is a Circus" was one of the most refreshing true stories that I have ever read!It took me back in time to my first visit to the circus and years later when I took my children to the BIG TOP!I canhardly wait to take my grandchildren.

Who ever wrote the inside cover ofthis delightful book was 100% right in stating, "When you turn thelast page of "Life is a Circus", you will feel as if you havelaughed and shared memories with a "new best friend" My onlycomplaint was I read the book in an evening and wanted to read more!

The 'Feel Good' book everyone should have.
Shirley O'Connor's first book,"Life is a Circus" is undeniably a three-ring circus of hercharmingly warm and humorous experiences with the "Greatest show on Earth". Most of us only dream of running awayto join the circus,Ms. O'Connor had the circus practically run away to joinher!She shares with us her amusing trials and insights in livingside by side with the circus community: the clowns,the side showartists,the aerialists and trapeze performers and,with myriad laughter,theanimals. Ms. O'Connor's delightfully true story of herself as a youngbride sharing her honeymoon with a leopard nervously roaming the back seatof the bride and groom's jalopy will leave you wondering what otheroutragous adventures lie ahead for these newlyweds;she doesn't let us down!With her circus experiences Ms. O'Connor gained some of the valuablelessons that brought her to a future as a pioneer in a then untried fieldof women in commercial public relations. One has to marvel at theapproaches she must have used during that neoteric time.Every enjoyablepage of "Life is a circus" is filled with a delicious freshnessof 'feel good' experiences that will leave you wishing that you,too couldrun away with the circus,no matter what age you may be.So grab a bag ofpeanuts and snag a front row seat in your own private Big Top with ShirleyO'Connor's "Life is a circus".

Great Book!
I really enjoyed "Life is a Circus" by Shirley Carroll O'Connor.It is a warm humorous love story and a first hand insight into what it was like being part of circus life in a bygone era.Shirley writes about of being a newly wed on a Circus train, learning the ropes and class system ofCircus life, living on the road and about the friends the bride made amongthe performers and side show acts. What better training for a woman wholater became one of Hollywood's top Press Agents than sharing your life(and car) with wild and dangerous animals.O'Connor's perspectives andinsights into the Circus culture can be appreciated by circus fans oranyone who likes a good autobiographical story.Her idea of a bad day waswhen she (literally) lost a heard of elephants in downtown Hollywood.Ifound myself smiling and laughing my way through this book. Buy, borrow,or check this book out of the library, it is a great read. ... Read more

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Chapters: Carroll O'connor, Gary Strobel, K. Ross Toole, Walter Kirn, Judy Blunt, Tony Crunk, Chris Offutt, Janine Benyus, Patricia Goedicke, Donald O. Johnston, Rodney K. Smith, Jack Ward Thomas, Joanna Klink, Kevin Canty, Harry Haines, John G. Watkins, Eduardo Chirinos. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 67. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 June 21, 2001) best known as Carroll O'Connor, was an American actor, producer and director whose television career spanned four decades. Known at first for playing the role of Major General Colt in the 1970 cult movie, Kelly's Heroes, he later found fame as the bigoted workingman Archie Bunker, the main character in the 1970s CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971 to 1979) and Archie Bunker's Place (1979 to 1983). O'Connor later starred in the NBC television crime drama In the Heat of the Night from 1988 to 1995, where he played the role of Police Chief William (Bill) Gillespie from 1988 to 1994, and Sheriff Gillespie in 1995. At the end of his career in the late 1990s, he played the father of Jamie Stemple Buchman (Helen Hunt) on Mad About You. O'Connor, an Irish Catholic American, was the eldest of three sons born in Manhattan, New York to Elise Patricia and Edward Joseph O'Connor, who was a New York City lawyer. Both of his brothers were doctors; Hugh, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1961, and Robert, a psychiatrist in New York City. O'Connor spent much of his youth in Elmhurst and Forest Hills, Queens, in the same borough in which his character Archie Bunker would later live. During World War II he was rejected by the United States Navy and instead enrolled in the United States Merchant Marine Academy for a short time. However, he left that institution and became a merchant seaman. O'Connor...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=245805 ... Read more

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Chapters: Mike Mansfield, Jeannette Rankin, Jeff Ament, Carroll O'connor, Ron Wigginton, Hank Green, Larry Krystkowiak, Donald Grant Nutter, Denise Juneau, Eugene Debruin, R. Thomas Flynn, Phillip O. Foss, Shannon Hale, Douglas Warrick, Molly Wood, John R. Horner, George Montgomery, James R. Browning, Susan Livingstone, John Patrick Williams, Christine Kaufmann, Paul B. Lowney, Kim Barnes, Diane Sands, Paul G. Hatfield, Judy Blunt, David Askevold, Reynold C. Fuson, Nicole Lefavour, Robert Balch, John Mutorwa, John Dahl, Kathy Callaway, Jim Messina, Kevin Goodan, Sidney Runyan Thomas, Ed Skoog, Garrison Courtney, Greg Glazner, Ted Geoghegan, Kellie Wells, Griff Williams, John Warner, Henrietta Goodman, Gloria Sawai, Robert Wrigley, Stephanie Trudeau, Richard G. Shoup, Jewel Lansing, Joey Jayne, Brady Wiseman, Richard Robbins, Mike Mcgrath, Susan Yuzna, James A. Rice, David Nelson, Carson Cistulli, Luana Ross, Meg Oliver, William Daniel Murray, Daniel Kemmis, Harry Haines, Herbert Inch, Earl Cooley, Ken Peterson, Bruce Crippen, Gary Svee. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 232. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jeffrey Allen Ament (born March 10, 1963 in Havre, Montana) is an American musician who serves as the bassist for the American rock band Pearl Jam. Along with Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder, he is one of the founding members of Pearl Jam. Ament is also known for his work prior to Pearl Jam with the 1980s Seattle, Washington-based grunge rock bands Green River and Mother Love Bone, and is particularly notable for his work with the fretless bass, upright bass and twelve-string bass guitar. Ament was also a member of the side project band Three Fish. In 2008, Ament released his first solo album, Tone. Jeff Ament was born in Havre, Montana and grew up in the town of B...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=580209 ... Read more

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January 1973PLAYMATE: Miki GarciaCOVER: Deanna Baker, Lenna Sjooblom, Ellen Michaels, Linda Summers, Marilyn ColePICTORIALS: Playmate Reviewpresents the 1972 Playmates including Deanna Baker, Susan Miller, Mercy Rooney, Lenna Sjooblom, Ellen Michaels, Linda Summers, Marilyn Cole; Pete Turner's Turn-Ons is six pages of photos by the pre-eminent photog; Dominique Sanda and Michael Bates in shots from the making of Impossible Object.INTERVIEW: Carroll O'ConnorFEATURES: Symposium on Fear with Red Adair, Denton Cooley, M.D., Aaron Henry, Jack Palance, Karl Wallenda, Robin Olds; Fiction by Herbert Gold, Candy-Coated Nightmares In Nirvana Bay, John Cheever, Triad: The Widow, The Passenger, The Belly, Sean O'Faolin, The Inside Outside Complex, and Paul Theroux, Dessert At The Belvedere; Paintings by LeRoy Neiman from Super Bowl (Miami-Dallas); article by William F. Buckley, To China with Nixon; sketches by artist Charles Bragg, The Forces of Death and the Forces of Life; humor by Art Buchwald, Advantage, God; two-page Vargas Girl; Little Annie Fanny visits Daddy Bigbucks.PAGES: 260 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Saturday Evening Post, published by Saturday Evening Post Society on October 1, 1989. The length of the article is 2189 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: Carroll O'Connor calls it luck. (heart surgery saves the TV star's life)
Author: Glenn Esterly
Publication: Saturday Evening Post (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 1989
Publisher: Saturday Evening Post Society
Volume: v261Issue: n7Page: p58(3)

Article Type: Biography

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John Carroll O'Connor, best known as Carroll O'Connor, was an American actor, producer and director whose television career spanned four decades. Known at first for playing the role of Major General Colt in the 1970 cult movie, Kelly's Heroes, he later found fame as the bigoted workingman Archie Bunker, the main character in the 1970s CBS television sitcoms All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place. O'Connor later starred in the NBC television crime drama In the Heat of the Night from 1988 to 1995, where he played the role of Police Chief William Gillespie from 1988 to 1994, and Sheriff Gillespie in 1995. At the end of his career in the late 1990s, he played the father of Jamie Stemple Buchman on Mad About You. ... Read more