Here’s an excerpt from an interview I did with the Toronto Sun. You can also watch a video of the interview here.
The moon also rises on Mariel Hemingway
By MIKE STROBEL, Toronto Sun
Here’s what Hemingway’s granddaughter, Mariel, thinks of our Moonlight Megalopolis:
“I love Toronto. It’s an awesome city. Very metropolitan, very European in a sense, but with an American feel.
“It’s a great city.”
Mariel Hemingway is 49. Yes, the kid in Lipstick, and Woody Allen’s teen lover in Manhattan is pushing 50.
She’s here with my former comrade in arms Linda Leatherdale to promote Cambria, an eco-friendly countertop firm.
“What I appreciate about Toronto and Canada in general is the environmental awareness,” Hemingway tells me. “If my grandfather was still alive, he’d be very much into the environment.”
Ernest shot himself four months before Mariel was born. There have been seven suicides in her family.
“Most of my life was about survival,” she says. “After my sister (Margaux) died, I thought, oh, jeez, maybe I’m next.
“Now I know a life of not being afraid at all.”
She’s more than a survivor. She’s working on her fourth book, a lifestyle guide with new beau Bobby Williams, who is one lucky stuntman. “Age is really a gift,” Mariel tells me. “A gift of understanding yourself, a gift of wisdom, a gift of ‘I don’t give a hoot.’
“I actually love myself. I know that sounds creepy. But I really appreciate who I am and that comes from life’s experience.”
The full article is here.
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