THEN AGAIN

The highly successful actress Diane Keaton, best known for ANNIE HALL, writes and reads this irksome, confusing, and eccentric memoir, which is, nevertheless, charming at moments in its truthfulness. Emphasizing her thoughts and feelings in a stream-of-consciousness style, Keaton writes her own story on a parallel track with her mother's biography. The variety of the collage of words is at odds with her monochromatic reading. The famously quirky actress doesn’t seem motivated to dramatically deliver the highs and lows of her quite fascinating life. She addresses particular segments of her experiences, including her relatively recent adoption of two children, but details of her professional life and her perspectives on acting are disappointingly absent. W.A.G. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: DECEMBER 2011]