![]() ![]() Like the way she threw her body through the wall those years on SNL, the way she always seems to inhabit her characters with her entire self, to feel fully possessed by whatever it is she’s tasked to do or wants to be. But they do work, within the context of her story, because it’s so clear throughout all these pages that Shannon actually means these things. If I were to pull out any of the platitudes that she offers from the text, I’m not sure they’d feel like much. Shannon offers a sort of advice from time to time, a philosophy of hard work but also talking to everyone, making connections, and not being afraid to come up with absurd schemes. #HELLO OLLY TV#After making her mark on SNL, Shannon went on to have roles in a string of films and TV shows, including A Night at the Roxbury, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Wet Hot American Summer, Hotel Transylvania, Enlightened, The Other Two, and The White Lotus. Shannon writes that he “gave me a kind of freedom few other girls had.” “Super-charismatic,” he also had a quick temper and sometimes struggled with alcohol: “I either adored my dad or was frustrated and at the end of my rope.” It’s the complexity and intensity of this relationship, combined with Shannon’s incredible humanity, that seems to have built this particular star-or superstar, if you will. He “encouraged mischief,” tearing clothes off of mannequins to make his daughters and their friends laugh. ![]() Read More: How Celebrity Memoirs Got So Goodīut it was also the extraordinary relationship she has with her father, James Shannon, “the Mama Rose to my Gypsy Rose,” that kept her steady enough to push on. ![]()
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