Out Came The Sun

Out Came The Sun
Mariel Hemingway in Toronto
by Live Music Head





















In this evening’s conversation
with the Toronto Star's Richard Ouzounian
at the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon,
Hemingway talked about the protectiveness
of film director Peter Bogdonavich

toward the family of Dorothy Stratten,
around the time she portrayed the murdered Playboy Playmate
in the 1983 biopic, Star 80.
She also talked about her troubled sister,
1970’s supermodel-turned-actress Margaux,
and Lipstick,
the rape and revenge film they did together in ‘76.
She talked a lot about the dysfunctional Hemingway family,
the long list of suicides in it,
including that of her grandfather Ernest
(Nobel Prize-winning writer) in 1961
and Margaux's in 1996,
and the importance of opening up and talking about mental illness.
And of course she talked about Woody Allen,
and Manhattan,
the film she did for him in 1979 when she was only 16 years old,
which subsequently got her nominated for
a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award.
In fact, she told a long-winded, detailed story about
the time Allen came to visit her family in Idaho 

after making the film,
and went hiking with her and her father.
Imagine that... Woody Allen hiking in Idaho!
Mariel is a storyteller,
and one of them extraordinary and fantabulous women
(and as beautiful up close as she is on screen, lemme tell you!)
who has survived a lot of heartbreak and tragedy,
only to go forward leading a positive, happy and healthy life 

of well-being,
inspiring countless people,
especially women,
all over the world.
She was sipping herbal tea
when she so graciously signed my copy of her book,
and I can’t wait to read it...