"This Is Your Captain Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage Through Hollywood, Faith & Life" is the new memoir from Gavin MacLeod, in which "The Love Boat" icon name drops major Hollywood stars and opens up about his alcoholism and suicidal tendencies.
"The big stars are the best," MacLeod writes of working on "The Love Boat." "I pinched myself every single day."
He also provides personal anecdotes about Robert Redford, Cary Grant and Bette Davis, among other Hollywood heavyweights.
A slump later in MacLeod's career, around the time he appeared on TV's "McHale's Navy" lead the actor into heavy drinking, which he eventually gave up in the early 1970s. "I never craved another drink," he writes of his newfound sobriety. "I see people get drunk in front of me and I feel compassion for them. I celebrate life sober."
Macleod also celebrates life as a "grateful" born again Christian, and says he will...
"The big stars are the best," MacLeod writes of working on "The Love Boat." "I pinched myself every single day."
He also provides personal anecdotes about Robert Redford, Cary Grant and Bette Davis, among other Hollywood heavyweights.
A slump later in MacLeod's career, around the time he appeared on TV's "McHale's Navy" lead the actor into heavy drinking, which he eventually gave up in the early 1970s. "I never craved another drink," he writes of his newfound sobriety. "I see people get drunk in front of me and I feel compassion for them. I celebrate life sober."
Macleod also celebrates life as a "grateful" born again Christian, and says he will...
- 10/23/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Gavin MacLeod jauntily helmed The Love Boat for nine seasons, but the 82-year-old's upcoming autobiography, This Is Your Captain Speaking: My Fantastic Voyage Through Hollywood, Faith & Life, reveals that his real life wasn't always quite so sunny and carefree. Despite securing a spot in television history with his roles as Captain Merrill Stubing and Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the book, out Oct. 22, also chronicles darker times, which include a battle with depression and alcoholism. (He got sober in 1974.)He suffered two heart attacks and watched two marriages crumble, only to remarry second wife Patti Steele. These days,...
- 7/30/2013
- by Kathy Ehrich Dowd
- PEOPLE.com
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