By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There by Tom Sizemore

By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There by Tom Sizemore

Tom Sizemore has been called many things. Brilliant. Brutal. Fiercely talented. Angry. Drug addicted. In reality, he's all of them. He's a survivor of the Detroit ghetto, the forty-eight-year-old father of twin boys, and a veteran of dozens of movies. He's also now sober, after his addiction took his life as far down, arguably, as any human being could go. Through screen-stealing performances in the 1990s movies True Romanceand Natural Born Killers, Sizemore was so in demand that even when it was widely known that he had a drug problem, directors like Steven Spielberg were offering him roles. But he is also the man who went from romancing Elizabeth Hurley and Sharon Stone to being accused of domestic violence by the world's most famous madam, who moved from a Beverly Hills mansion to a solitary confinement cell at Chino State Prison and later a desolate, abandoned cabin. This is a harrowing journey into the heart of addiction. It's one man's look at a particular moment in entertainment history-a window into the drug-fueled spotlight that killed River Phoenix and sent Robert Downey, Jr., to jail.

“A relentlessly candid and shockingly honest look at a nightmare world of drugs and sex and jail from which this talented actor has managed to extricate himself; but at considerable cost to himself, to his career and to his familyVery readably written and absolutely riveting throughout, this is a kind of horror story and cautionary self-revelation with a hopeful conclusion, thus encouraging for those fighting similar battles. A real page-turner!” -- Legendary director, writer, and actor Peter Bogdanovich"A brutal cautionary tale." * NY Daily News *

Tom Sizemore rose in prominence as an actor throughout the 1990s, establishing himself as a memorable tough-guy character. Born in Detroit, he got his start in Born on the Fourth of July and has since starred in Devil in a Blue Dress, Strange Days, Wyatt Earp, Natural Born Killers, Heat, Saving Private Ryan, and Black Hawk Down, among many others. Sizemore recently costarred in Fox’s television pilot Exit Strategy and had a recurring guest-star role on Hawaii Five-O. Sizemore has counseled both teens involved in substance abuse and recovering addicts and is actively involved with the Hollenbeck Youth Center in East Los Angeles.

Anna David is the author of the novels Party Girl and Bought, the anthology Reality Matters, and the memoir Falling for Me. She is the executive editor of the addiction and recovery website The Fix, is doing graduate work in drug and alcohol counseling at UCLA, and speaks at colleges across the country on addiction.

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ISBN 13	9781451681673
ISBN 10	1451681674
Title	By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There
Author	Tom Sizemore
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Atria Books
Year published	2013-04-25
Number of pages	240
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