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Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate: How I was the Child Star of the Worst Movie Ever Made and Lived to Tell the Story
Growing Up with Manos The Hands of Fate How I was the Child Star of the Worst Movie Ever Made and Lived to Tell the Story Author:Jackey Neyman Jones For Jackey Neyman Jones, who played Debbie in Manos: The Hands of Fate, the ?worst movie ever made? is, at its heart, a home movie that just happens to be shared with the world. Equal parts memoir/family saga/film book, Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate shares the behind-the-scenes story of the making of Manos: from creator Hal Warren?s a... more »lleged bet with TV producer Stirling Silliphant that ?anyone could make a movie,? to the tragic suicide of John Reynolds (Torgo), right up through the newest Manos-related projects that are carrying the film into the digital age. Jackey?s stories dispel much of the Manos mythology while crystallizing a unique time and place in America, where a crew of actors with a bad script and a rented camera set out to make a bad movie?and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Jackey Neyman Jones is a professional artist living in the Great Northwest. Laura Mazzuca Toops is a writer/editor with more than 30 years? experience in business and fiction writing. She is the author of three historical novels.« less