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Article: Oh brother! Jodie Foster's ire irks Buddy
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 29, 1997
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NEW YORK There will be no more cozy Thanksgiving dinners with his
mother and three sisters. From now on, it seems, Jodie Foster's only
brother is on his own.
"Mom did the damage control, and has had the family cut me
off," he says, eyes blazing with anger. "They have excommunicated
me."
Lucius "Buddy" Foster's crime is to have published Foster Child
(Dutton, $24.95), a no-detail-spared biography of his celebrated
sister, the double-Oscar-winning star and movie director.
"Everything was always, `you CAN'T do that to Jodie.'
Everything was Jodie," he says. "We had to maintain the facade that
the family was perfect.
"But you know what? I don't regret doing the book. It has set
me free. . . ...