Article: Foster Child: A Biography of Jodie Foster.

Celebrity biographies penned by family members invariably include a foreword explaining that the book is a selfless act of love, not an attempt to cash in on the author's famous kin. Hundreds of pages of filth usually follow, all presumably written in the name of love and never, ever for six-figure advances. In the introduction to the new biography of Jodie Foster written by her brother, former child star Buddy Foster, the author makes a similar claim about family love and setting the record straight. What's surprising is that he does just that. Foster has forged a loving portrait of his famous sibling, that reveals more pride and affection than animosity and that gets ...

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