Breathing Out: A Memoir

Peggy Lipton, David Dalton, Coco Dalton

St. Martin's Publishing Group, Apr 1, 2007 - Biography & Autobiography - 320 pages

Peggy Lipton's overnight success as Julie Barnes on television's hit The Mod Squad made her an instant fashion icon and the "it" girl everyone-from Elvis to Paul McCartney-wanted to date. She was the original and ultimate California girl of the early seventies, complete with stick-straight hair, a laid-back style, and a red convertible. But Lipton was much more: smart and determined to not be just another leggy blonde, she struggled for a way to stay connected to her childhood roots, though her coming of age had not been an easy one. And when she fell in love with Quincy Jones, that wasn't easy, either: their biracial marriage made headlines and changed her life.

Lipton's passionate and complicated seventeen-year marriage to Jones plunged her into motherhood and also into periods of confusion and difficulty. Her struggle to keep moving forward in the world while maintaining a rich inner life informed many of her decisions as an adult. When Lipton's marriage to Jones ended, she returned to television, appearing in David Lynch's Twin Peaks as well as in The Vagina Monologues and other stage productions. But her most recent triumph has been her overcoming a surprising diagnosis of colon cancer in 2003.

Breathing Out is full of fresh stories of life with the pop culture icons of our times, but is also a much more thoughtful book about life in the limelight, work, motherhood, and marriage. It's a refreshing and real look at the life of an actress who became, in many senses, a woman of her times.

Contents

• Changeling: 3
• Family Secrets: 12
• The Man in the Fedora: 20
• Donny: 28
• The Dark Side of the Moon: 35
• Landing on Mars: 41
• Enter Earl: 49
• Chez Rock Hudson: 51
• Smile: 55
• Back at the Ranch: 57
• Married Men: 60
• Weve Got a Ticket to Ride: 63
• Meeting Paul: 68
• Same Time Next Year: 74
• Dont Open the Door: 77
• Exit Adonis Raging: 81
• Blue: 83
• Moonflowers: 87
• Heard the Word: 90
• The Train Was Coming Right at Us 92 223: 92
• The Peyote and the Plumber: 94
• Was as a Hippie Cop 27 I Met Him at the Slave Girl Market: 101
• How Not to Audition: 104
• The Zeitgeist Kids: 107
• Canary with a Broken Wing: 110
• Love Stinks: 113
• Imaginary Siblings: 115
• Enter the Lair: 120
• Hide Me: 123
• Skip to My Lou: 126
• Once More with Feeling: 129
• The Dog Days of Summer: 133
• Earthquake: 135
• Hallucinate Vincent Price: 137
• What Kind of Fool Am I?: 140
• 41: 138
• The PainsintheNeck Fight Back: 148
• Julie Gets Suspended: 151
• The King and I: 153
• The Emperors New Clothes: 155
• 45: 164
• The Story of: 169
• The Dream Goes Sour: 171
• Meet Quincy: 173
• Fade Out: 180
• Rita: 182
• Black and White: 185
• A Tangled Tale: 189
• Sparks Fly: 193
• Food Adventures: 195
• Become the Wicked Stepmother: 198
• Happy Birthday Quincy: 200
• A Storm in the Brain: 203
• Help Me Bear: 209
• The Little Studio that Could: 211
• Thriller: 217
• Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?: 219
• Causeway Road: 222
• The First Female Jewish Black President: 224
• Travolta: 227
• Breaking Up: 229
• Breakdown: 232
• Breakup: 236
• Gurumayi: 240
• My Mothers Hands: 244
• Being Momma: 249
• Being Momma: 251
• Dislocation: 254
• Kidada Takes Off: 259
• Rashida Graduates: 263
• India: 266
• Love from Twin Peaks: 272
• Depression: 281
• My Aunt Pearl: 284
• Moving Ahead: 286
• Aaliyah: 289
• Loss: 291
• Coming Back: 292
• Life Change: 296
• Thanksgiving: 302
• Acknowledgments: 305
• Index: 307

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About the author

Peggy Lipton (1946 - 2019) was an American actress and singer. She appeared onstage in The Guys and The Vagina Monologues and on television in Alias, the WB's Popular, and David Lynch's Twin Peaks. She lived in New York and Los Angeles. She is the author of the memoir Breathing Out.

David Dalton has written a number of books, including Piece of My Heart: A Portrait of Janis Joplin and Faithfull: An Autobiography. Coco Pekelis Dalton is the author of Everything I Know I Learned on Acid. The Daltons live in upstate New York.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Breathing Out: A Memoir
• Authors: Peggy Lipton, David Dalton, Coco Dalton
• Contributor: David Dalton
• Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2007
• ISBN: 1429906618, 9781429906616
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts; Biography & Autobiography / Rich & Famous; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Social Science / Popular Culture