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Jennifer Grey reclaims her story in 'Out of the Corner,' talks Clark Gregg divorce: 'Never loved him more'
Jennifer Grey is done being a people pleaser.
The "Dirty Dancing" actress, 62, is reclaiming her narrative and no longer "fearing other people's disappointment or discomfort," Grey tells USA TODAY.
In her new memoir "Out of the Corner" (Ballantine, 352 pp., out now), Grey takes readers on a candid tour of her life and career, from her breakout performance in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," which stars her ex-fiancé, Matthew Broderick; to the "Dirty Dancing" role that changed it all; through her Season 11 win on "Dancing With the Stars," sharing lessons on heartbreak, self-worth and family.
"The story we tell is so much more powerful than we realize," she says.
At the heart of Grey's memoir is resilience.
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"There's always a way out," she says. "And if you can see the ways in which you were the architect of your own adversity, then you can be the architect to get yourself the hell out."
As she tried to find her footing in Hollywood, the daughter of Oscar winner Joel Grey ("Cabaret") and actor Jo Wilder had big shoes to fill. Grey dealt with naysayers and a relentless industry that wasn't ready to accept women who
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The Heart Of Adhesive Life – Patrick Swayze’s memoir
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Out of the Corner, by Jennifer Grey
Continued from Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6
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Chapter 12, titled "Reasons to Be Cheerful" tells Grey's life from the beginning of her acting career in 1980 until 1986, when she auditioned for Dirty Dancing. I am summarizing this one chapter in a series of four blog articles. This is the first.
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In October 1980 Grey was hired to be the under-study for the two female roles in an Off-Broadway play called Album.
It as a four-character play, divided into four scenes, chronicling the coming-of-age of two teenage couples during the sixties, struggling with impending adulthood and their awakening sexuality. The music of Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and the Beach Boys served as the soundtrack of their last few carefree years together. ...
The play was a hit, popular as well as critically acclaimed, and once it got the rave review from The New York Times, every show was sold out. The young actors were Kevin Bacon, Keith Gordon, Jenny Wright and Jan Leslie Harding, all exceptionally good. ....
Bruce MacVittie, the boys' understudy, and I were kept backstage for eight shows a week, until maybe a half hour before the curtain came down, just in case one of the actors fell