De stem van de aarde|Elizabeth Fuller 9038907230

||boek: De stem van de aarde|Een innerlijke zoektocht in het land van de aboriginals|Elmar

||door: Elizabeth Fuller

||taal: nl
||jaar: 1998
||druk: ?
||pag.: 255p
||opm.: paperback|zo goed als nieuw

||isbn: 90-389-0723-0
||code: 1:000164

--- Over het boek (foto 1): De stem van de aarde ---

Na dood van haar echtgenoot vertrekt Elizabeth Fuller naar Australië, waar ze in een huis gaat wonen dat gebouwd blijkt op heilige aboriginalgrond. Ze ontmoet Max Eulo, een aboriginal die haar meeneemt op een tocht door het uitgestrekte en mystieke binnenland van Australië. Elizabeth leert zo de manieren van aboriginals, de hoeders van de aarde voor wie de grond de bron van alle leven vormt. Van hen leert Elizabeth Fuller te luisteren naar de stem van de aarde, luistert naar zichzelf.

[bron: https--www.bullseyeshop.nl]

Aangeslagen door tegenslag en verdriet, gaat de Amerikaanse schrijfster Elizabeth Fuller met haar twaalfjarige zoon naar Australië. Ze betrekt er een huis dat gebouwd is op heilige aboriginalgrond en komt in contact met een heilzame aboriginalgeest. Deze praat met haar, geeft advies en laat haar kennis maken met de spirituele kant van het leven. Dankzij deze geest ook ontmoet ze Max, een aboriginal die haar meeneemt op een tocht door het uitgestrekte en mystieke binnenland van Australië. Zo komt ze terecht in een wereld die haar volkomen vreemd is en waarin ze zich aanvankelijk slecht op haar gemak voelt. Maar ze beleeft er ook het zinvolste en spannendste avontuur op aarde. Ze leert de manier van leven en vooral ook de manier van denken kennen van de aboriginals, deze 'hoeders van de aarde', voor wie de grond de bron van het leven vormt. Van hen leert Elizabeth Fuller te luisteren naar de stem van de aarde. En wie luistert naar de stem van de aarde, luistert naar zichzelf.

[bron: https--www.dekaft.be]

Verdriet en teleurstelling drijven de Amerikaanse schrijfster Liz voor enige tijd naar Australië. Het huis dat zij en haar tienerzoon Chris daar betrekken, blijkt gebouwd te zijn op heilige Aboriginalgrond. Als Liz in contact komt met de geest van een Aboriginaltovenaar wordt duidelijk dat dit volk haar belangrijke dingen kan leren. Ze ontmoet Max, een volbloed Aboriginal, die Liz en haar zoon begeleidt naar zijn geboortedorp in het binnenland. Aanvankelijk voelen zij zich daar weinig welkom. De spiritualiteit van deze mensen en het land openen echter Liz' ogen, waardoor ze haar angst en verdriet overwint en met hernieuwd inzicht in zichzelf en haar omgeving haar leven weer oppakt. Fuller baseerde dit boek op gebeurtenissen uit haar eigen leven. Geen literair hoogstandje, maar een toegankelijke beschrijving van een bewustwordingsproces onder invloed van de Aboriginalcultuur. Een duidelijk inzicht in deze cultuur geeft het boek echter niet. Fuller schreef eerder acht boeken en twee toneelstukken, waaronder 'Me and Jezebel'.

Karin van Hoof [bron: nbd biblion]

When You See the Emu in the Sky: My Journey of Self-Discovery in the Outback

Although admonished by her parents and friends for leaving her second husband of only 18 months to fend for himself while she pursued an unexplained urge to visit the Outback, Fuller, a nonfiction writer (Nannies, etc.) and playwright living in New York, pulled her son out of his sixth-grade class and headed for Australia. In a rented house in Manly, she encountered Aborigine spirits in the form of strange music and footsteps in the night. A ouija board put her in touch with "Dwango", a spirit dwelling in the basement, who told her she would meet a man who would take her someplace she needed to go. Soon, Max, a full-blooded Aborigine, took Fuller and her son "Back o'Bourke" (beyond the point of no return), to the Outback where he grew up. Initially fearful, both Fuller and her son soon experienced life close to the earth, the spirits and the universe, and grew well beyond their former selves. Comparisons between this book and Marlo Morgan's Mutant Message Down Under are inevitable, but Fuller's story is more personal. Drawn to a strange, mystical world, she ended up facing the earthly realities she had feared most--her grief over her first husband's death, the bad reviews of her acting and the closing of her play, as well as the impending death from AIDS of her close friend and co-star. This tale offers readers a little adventure, a little human pathos, a little magic.

[source: https--www.publishersweekly.com]

When You See the Emu in the Sky is the journey of Elizabeth Fuller - vital, energetic, and free, yet saddled with unspoken grief. At home in Connecticut, she has remarried, happily, after the death of her first husband, and she has found success in her writing. But as her dearest friend, an actor who portrays Bette Davis on stage, begins to waste away from AIDS, a terrible loneliness stares her in the face again. Her response: to gather her twelve year old son and flee to a place she has dreamed of since childhood.

Australia represents adventure. But events, uncanny and inexplicable, soon beckon her on a trip she has made no preparation for. It is an adventure of the soul, where the signposts are a large white cockatoo, spirits who visit in the night, and a full-blooded Aborigine named Max Eulo, who becomes her friend and guide to a culture thousands of years old.

The tiny Aborigine village of Enngonia, where she is a guest, is worlds apart from everything Elizabeth has known. But when her heart seems most wrenched and she feels most out of place, she senses a gateway opening - and she enters through it. "The unknown paths are the gifts of life", an Aboriginal spirit counsels her. "Stay close to the earth and you will touch the stars."

And she does - in a journey that is comforting, transforming, and wonderful.

[source: https--www.amazon.com]

--- Over (foto 2): Elizabeth Fuller ---

Elizabeth L. Fuller, American writer, playwright.

Background

Fuller, Elizabeth L. was born on September 22, 1946 in Cleveland. Daughter of Lewis F. and Isabel Brancae.

Education

Student, Ohio State University, 1965-1966.

Achievements

Elizabeth L. Fuller has been listed as a notable writer, playwright by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• Me and Jezebel - Acting Edition Me and Jezebel - Acting Edition
• Me and Jezebel: When Bette Davis Came for Dinner-And Stayed-And Stayed-And Stayed-And- by Elizabeth L. Fuller (1-May-1992) Mass Market Paperback Me and Jezebel: When Bette Davis Came for Dinner-And Stayed-And Stayed-And Stayed-And- by Elizabeth L. Fuller (1-May-1992) Mass Market Paperback
• Me and Jezebel - Acting Edition by Elizabeth L. Fuller (1995) Paperback Me and Jezebel - Acting Edition by Elizabeth L. Fuller (1995) Paperback
• Nannies: How I Went Through Eighteen Nannies for One Little Boy Before I Found Perfection in a Former Marine Sergeant Named Margaret Nannies: How I Went Through Eighteen Nannies for One Little Boy Before I Found Perfection in a Former Marine Sergeant Named Margaret
• Having Your First Baby After 30 Having Your First Baby After 30
• When You See the Emu in the Sky: My Journey of Self-Discovery in the Outback When You See the Emu in the Sky: My Journey of Self-Discovery in the Outback
• Me and Jezebel: When Bette Davis Came for Dinner--and Stayed Me and Jezebel: When Bette Davis Came for Dinner--and Stayed
• Me and Jezebel: When Bette Davis Came for Dinner -- And Stayed ... And Stayed ... And Stayed ... And ... Me and Jezebel: When Bette Davis Came for Dinner -- And Stayed ... And Stayed ... And Stayed ... And ...
• Nima: A Sherpa in Connecticut Nima: A Sherpa in Connecticut

books

• When You See the Emu in the Sky: My Journey of Self-Discovery in the Outback (Trying to escape from grief over the death of her first h...)
• Me and Jezebel: When Bette Davis Came for Dinner -- And Stayed ... And Stayed ... And Stayed ... And ... (A star-struck fan recounts the story of how her dream cam...)
• Me and Jezebel: When Bette Davis Came for Dinner--and Stayed (The intimate, funny, and true story of a Hollywood legend...)
• Nima: A Sherpa in Connecticut

Connections

Married John Grant Fuller, November 17, 1978 (deceased November 7, 1990). 1 child, Christopher Lewis. Married Reuel Dorman, September 23, 1996.

Father: Lewis F. Brancae
Mother: Isabel Brancae
Spouse: Reuel Dorman
Spouse: John Grant Fuller
child: Christopher Lewis Fuller

[source: https--prabook.com/web/elizabeth_l.fuller/633360]

A VERY BETTE CHRISTMAS [2005-11-20]

Elizabeth Fuller

"I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life." Bette Davis.

"Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition." Bette Davis.

On May 28th 1985, star-struck Elizabeth Fuller's childhood dream came true when Bette Davis, known as the First Lady of the Silver Screen, came to dinner at her Connecticut cottage and stayed. Four weeks later, as a hotel strike in New York City dragged on, Bette was still there, and running the Fuller household with an iron fist. The events of those four weeks became the basis for Fuller's book and show, Me & Jezebel, which has played Off-Broadway, in Sydney, and recently opened in Prague.

A Very Bette Christmas is a new holiday play with music by Elizabeth Fuller, starring Tommy Femia as Bette Davis.

Before speaking with Broadway To Vegas about A Bette Davis Christmas, the author was taking advantage of pre-holiday sales - buying lime green, queen size flannel sheets at Penny's and make-up at Macy's.

In addition to sheets and make-up the playwright also owns a mink coat, ball gown and wrist watch which belonged to Bette Davis.

Bette Davis

"Bette Davis came to my house by accident for dinner," recalled Fuller. "I had invited her best friend, Robin Brown, and Bette came in tow. Bette had been staying with Robin. Out of the blue Bette called and said "Darling, there is a New York hotel strike and Robin has been suddenly called to an emergency in Maine. Can I stay with you for a night or possibly two?"

"So, in she moves - for 32 days - which first was a book then became a Broadway play," she said referring to Me & Jezebel, "The play opened in Prague two weeks ago," she continued about the production which is performed in the Czechoslovakian language.

As to whether she had approved the translations Elizabeth responded, "Oh, please, I'm still working on English."

"I have a London agent. I have the posters and everything looks fine. It's in rep so it could go on for many months."

"And, it was just translated into Italian and French. It ran in Australia and we got rave reviews but the producers got in a fight."

Getting royalty checks can also seem alike a fist fight.

"The theaters, for the writers, is like one step below being a Carney act. You don't get your money!" exclaimed the author of 10 books including When You See the Emu in the Sky (translated into eight languages); Nannies: How I Went Through Eighteen Nannies Before I Found Perfection in a Former Marine Sergeant Named Margaret, and Everyone is Psychic.

"Bette Davis stayed for 32 days in my home," Fuller reiterated. "She wrote me a letter that I have framed and she wrote three pieces of poetry that she hid throughout the house, which I also have framed."

"Bette and Robin were contemporaries, explained Elizabeth about Bette and their mutual friend. "They met as young girls on the beach in Maine and remained life long friends. They both started out in the theater together. When Bette died she had a feud going on with a daughter and she left Robin her most personal possessions - which was a beautiful Piaget pearl and sapphire bracelet watch. Bette wore it in a lot of her photographs. And she left her the mink coat and a satin ball gown. When Robin passed away six years ago, she left it to me."

Davis's personal life was as dramatic as her acting. She was married four times. She had a daughter, B.D., with her third husband, William Grant Sherry. She adopted two children, Margot and Michael, while married to her fourth husband, Gary Merrill.

"I have the mink coat in storage," continued Elizabeth. "It's very ratty because Bette wore it. I have the watch in a safe deposit box."

"I have put them on display at different theaters but I have to be assured that everything would be safe. They are priceless possessions."

So are Fuller's memories of Bette Davis.

"Bette was totally amazing," continued Elizabeth. "I kept saying when is she just going to kick off her shoes and be real. My late husband, John said - Liz, she's never acted a role in her life!'"

"We had the most amazing experiences, "repeated Elizabeth. "I had a four-year-old son at that time. I remember the first day she was here she wanted to go get something and I had to pick my son up from pre-school. I had promised him that I would take him to McDonalds. He gets in the back seat and starts kicking her seat and saying he wants to go to McDonalds."

"Finally she goes - 'For Christ sake, take the kid to McDonalds!'"

Paul Newman

"When we are at McDonald's, of course, she is recognized. People were coming over to McDonald's asking for her autograph. I asked her if she wanted me to get rid of them. She goes, "What for?" I said 'I guess being famous must have its drawbacks.' And she looked at me and goes, "Being a Goddamn nobody has it's drawbacks!"

"Paul Newman lives in Westport and she really hated him because he wouldn't sign autographs. She didn't like it. She said he was somebody who should pay with autographs, because his fans pay at the box office."

"He would always say, 'Bette, we should get together for dinner one night.' She said to me, 'Imagine me having a spaghetti dinner, with Paul Newman. Having a salad drenched in his crappy, creamy Ranch,'" said Bette referring to his delicious Newman's Own dressings, whose profits go to charity.

"She was just hostile towards the poor guy," Elizabeth emphasized. "He was always gracious to her. But, she was annoyed because he wouldn't sign autographs. And, that is his reputation around town. Nobody will go up to him. But with Bette, anybody could go up to her," said Elizabeth about the star who was nominated for an amazing 10 Best Actress Oscars. She won the Best Actress Oscar twice, for Dangerous in 1935 and Jezebel in 1938. In 1977, Bette was the first woman to receive the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award.

"When I was a little girl growing up in Cleveland my grandmother and I used to sit at her linoleum table and write Bette Davis fan letters," divulged Elizabeth. "My grandmother would take me all over Cleveland to see Bette Davis movies. Who knew that one day Bette Davis would be in my house answering my phone."

"I remember one time my son's pediatrician had called. Bette met me at the door and said - "Elizabeth, Christopher's pediatrician called and said tomorrow make the appointment at two. And, then they called right back and said, 'Oh, make it at 2:30. And, I said, Make up your Goddamn mind!'"

"She said what we would all love to say," observed Elizabeth.

"Of course the nurse in the pediatrician's office had no clue she was talking to Bette Davis."

"This play A Very Bette Christmas is faction (a play on the words fact and fiction), I think," quipped the playwright who also created the board game Fleece the Flock (1989), which poked fun at TV evangelists and was featured in Playboy. "A Very Bette Christmas is a fantasy and it's crazy fun."

Tommy Femia as Bette Davis

"She was very gracious with her fans. She loved them," Elizabeth stressed. "This is what Tommy Femia portrays so well," said Elizabeth about the 5-time Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs (MAC) Award-winner for Outstanding Impersonation. "I was able to sit with him and tell him about her flip floppy personality. If a director - or whomever she was working with - wasn't any good, slow on the take - she could just chew him up. But, she admired strong personalities, because she was one and she didn't suffer fools. And, she had a soft side, too."

The production is directed by Mark S. Graham who has served on the Board of the Westport Playhouse and as general managed at Lucille Lortel's White Barn Theater. "He knew all of Bette's nuances so we were both able to fill Tommy in on the real Bette Davis. And, he is brilliant."

"The show takes place in 1966 as a run through at NBC for a real show that evening. There's a snowstorm and the Elf and Bette are the only two that made it. The Elf is a Russian who defected from a circus, so he stands in for Liberace, Brenda Lee, Bing Crosby, Joan Crawford," she said referring to Daniel John Kelly, a seasoned actor who just wrapped up a production of The Cherry Orchard at Yale Rep. He joins in the outrageous festivities onstage as an Elf and sidekick to Miss Davis. Peter Morris plays the part of the Director of the television special.

"Hats, wigs and costumes are by Jon Jordan and makeup by Mark Manalansan. He created the Bette Davis face," Fuller proudly reported. "Those are the same guys that did Hairspray, so we have wigs and costumes that are phenomenal. Liberace's wig and coat are funny."

Jon Jordan and Mark Manalansan are respectively the hair & makeup supervisor and makeup artist at Broadway's Hairspray.

Currently in previews, A Very Bette Christmas officially opens December 1 with performances through January 8 at Don't Tell Mama in New York City.

Laura Deni [source: https--www.broadwaytovegas.com/November20,2005.html]