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Donny Osmond was stumped when it came to choosing a title for his eagerly anticipated autobiography. He was partial to Survived Donny Osmond-And You Can, Too. Then he was torn between One More Joke About the Teeth and the Old Lady Gets It and I Suffered for My Art, Now It's Your Turn. Finally, he knew he had to call it Life Is Just What You Make It. Here's the reason why:
A television star by the age of six, a veteran of Las Vegas by eight, Donny at age eighteen had four separate careers successfully underway. He was a member of the Osmond Brothers, a solo artist, half of a duo with his sister, Marie, and a co-host of the immensely popular late-1970s television variety show The Donny & Marie Show. With numerous hits under his belt (23 gold records by the time he was thirteen) and legions of screaming fans, this polite boy from Utah with the golden voice and those pearly whites was one of the biggest teen idols of his time.
But by the early 1980s, public perception had changed. The kid everyone loved to love had grown up to be the young man everyone loved to hate. Unable to convince record company executives he could sell records as a mature artist, his music career appeared to be over. His squeaky- clean image had become so unfashionable that Michael Jackson even advised him to change his name. Donny was on the verge of calling it quits when his 1989 song "Soldier of Love" made it all the way to number two on the charts.
In Life Is Just What You Make It, Donny describes how he kept his faith, his dignity, and his sense of humor through creative, emotional, and financial setbacks. For the first time ever, Donny reveals his battle with social phobia, a common but debilitating anxiety disorder that threatened to ruin not
A television star by the age of six, a veteran of Las Vegas by eight, Donny at age eighteen had four separate careers successfully underway. He was a member of the Osmond Brothers, a solo artist, half of a duo with his sister, Marie, and a co-host of the immensely popular late-1970s television variety show The Donny & Marie Show. With numerous hits under his belt (23 gold records by the time he was thirteen) and legions of screaming fans, this polite boy from Utah with the golden voice and those pearly whites was one of the biggest teen idols of his time.
But by the early 1980s, public perception had changed. The kid everyone loved to love had grown up to be the young man everyone loved to hate. Unable to convince record company executives he could sell records as a mature artist, his music career appeared to be over. His squeaky- clean image had become so unfashionable that Michael Jackson even advised him to change his name. Donny was on the verge of calling it quits when his 1989 song "Soldier of Love" made it all the way to number two on the charts.
In Life Is Just What You Make It, Donny describes how he kept his faith, his dignity, and his sense of humor through creative, emotional, and financial setbacks. For the first time ever, Donny reveals his battle with social phobia, a common but debilitating anxiety disorder that threatened to ruin not