Above the Line, Shirley MacLaine
Above the Line, Shirley MacLaine
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Above the Line
My Wild Oats Adventure

Author: Shirley MacLaine

Narrator: Shirley MacLaine

Unabridged: 5 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2016


Synopsis

A funny, fierce, imaginative memoir chronicling New York Times bestselling author and Academy Award winner Shirley MacLaine’s remarkable experiences filming Wild Oats in the Canary Islands and the extraordinary memories her time there brought forth of a past life on the lost continent of Atlantis.

Her agent advised her not to get on the plane. The male leads weren’t even cast. The financing was shaky at best. The script had been rewritten countless times. And yet something about Wild Oats lured Shirley MacLaine to the film’s location shoot in the far-off Canary Islands—and straight to the center of one of the most thrilling and paradigm-shifting adventures of her life.

The making of the film reads like a screwball comedy, as the cast and crew face unpredictable daily obstacles with ingenuity, grit, and personal sacrifice. Yet the chaos leads Shirley to a revelatory new understanding of the demise of one of history’s most elusive yet endlessly intriguing places. Scholars have long theorized that Spain’s Canary Islands are the remnants of the mighty lost continent of Atlantis. As the movie set descends into pandemonium, Shirley finds fascinating corollaries between the island’s cataclysmic fate and our own dangerous trajectory. Can we learn the lessons the citizens of Atlantis failed to comprehend?

The answer is borne out of recovered memories from Shirley’s past life on Atlantis and through a series of meditations that reveal the necessity of unfettered imagination when looking for bold new truths, rendering this evocative, irreverent, and honest memoir essential reading for anyone seeking a broader understanding of what it means to be human—both where we came from and where we are going.

About Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine has appeared in more than fifty films, has been nominated for an Academy Award six times, and received the Oscar for Best Actress in 1984 for Terms of Endearment. She also recently starred in the hit TV show Downton Abbey. A longtime outspoken advocate for civil rights and liberties, she is the author of ten international bestsellers. She lives in Malibu, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Catherine on March 30, 2016

Not her best. I wanted to read more about Atlantis, less about show business.......more

Goodreads review by Sally on June 06, 2016

This wasn't the worst book I've ever read, but it was close. The only reason I'm giving even two stars is that some of it was interesting. However, this book either had no editor or some editor who couldn't do his/her job, because the number of writing mistakes, repetitions, pacing and fact-checking......more

Goodreads review by Beth on June 26, 2021

I had recently been to the Canary Islands so thought I would like to read about Shirley's Wild Oats Adventure. Sure was a mixed up "film shoot" there in the Canary Islands. Shirley had heard and believed they were the mountain tops of the lost civilization country named Atlantis. To me there were 3......more