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A review by komet2020
Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls by Susan Seidelman
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
It was sometime last summer that I became fully aware of Susan Seidelman, award winning movie and TV director. I was listening to the Jessica Shaw Show on Sirius XM radio in which Seidelman was being interviewed about her life and career. I was enthralled and made a check with my local library to see if Seidelman's new memoir was available (it was). And so I borrowed the book. But with other books I then had on a higher rung of my TBR List, it was only within the last 2 weeks that I took up the book and read it.
I became absorbed in Seidelman's life, from her formative years in the suburbs of Philadelphia during the 1960s and early 1970s as the oldest of 3 children; her life in New York after her college graduation and subsequent admission into and graduation from NYU Film School; her early attempts to be taken seriously by a movie industry during the late 1970s and early 1980s in which women directors were rarer than hens' teeth; her first successes with the movies "Smithereens" (1982) and "Suddenly Seeking Susan" (1985) which helped solidify the flourishing of 'Madonna-mania" which went on to sweep the world (I was then in college and remember that very well - then I thought Madonna would peak after the success of her song Material Girl and disappear - how wrong I was! Kudos to Madonna); and the sheer richness and diversity of Susan Seidelman's life and career from the 1980s to today. She certainly knows how to tell an engrossing and captivating story.
For anyone who enjoys reading well-told, engaging memoirs, look no further. DESPERATELY SEEKING SOMETHING is the ticket.
I became absorbed in Seidelman's life, from her formative years in the suburbs of Philadelphia during the 1960s and early 1970s as the oldest of 3 children; her life in New York after her college graduation and subsequent admission into and graduation from NYU Film School; her early attempts to be taken seriously by a movie industry during the late 1970s and early 1980s in which women directors were rarer than hens' teeth; her first successes with the movies "Smithereens" (1982) and "Suddenly Seeking Susan" (1985) which helped solidify the flourishing of 'Madonna-mania" which went on to sweep the world (I was then in college and remember that very well - then I thought Madonna would peak after the success of her song Material Girl and disappear - how wrong I was! Kudos to Madonna); and the sheer richness and diversity of Susan Seidelman's life and career from the 1980s to today. She certainly knows how to tell an engrossing and captivating story.
For anyone who enjoys reading well-told, engaging memoirs, look no further. DESPERATELY SEEKING SOMETHING is the ticket.