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Martin Sheen on NBC at 8 PST "Who Do You Think You Are' (Original Post) grasswire Feb 2012 OP
It was great - lots of interesting tidbits in his ancestry csziggy Feb 2012 #1

csziggy

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1. It was great - lots of interesting tidbits in his ancestry
Fri Feb 3, 2012, 11:50 PM
Feb 2012

Hubby said that during the show it was either mentioned or there was an ad that said he wrote a book about his family history.

Here is the Amazon blurb:

Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son
Book Description
Publication Date: May 8, 2012
In this remarkable dual memoir, film legend Martin Sheen and his accomplished actor/director son Emilio Estevez share the stories of their lives while charting a spiritual journey through the Spain of their ancestors.While much has been written over the years about this prominent entertainment family, neither Martin Sheen nor Emilio Estevez has told his story in book form before. In Along the Way, they break that silence together, offering a striking, often stirring, frequently funny story of two very different kinds of faith—told from two viewpoints that are as different as they are eloquent.

Spanning more than fifty years of family history, this chronicle of a creative father and son is partially set against the background of Hollywood. But the heart of the story lies along the Camino de Santiago—the thousand-year-old pilgrimage path, also known as “The Way,” across northern Spain, from which Sheen’s father emigrated to the U.S. and to which Estevez’s own son has returned to live. There, Estevez directed his father in the filming of The Way, a major film to be released in October, 2011, and which has already garnered praise at the Toronto Film Festival. Along the Way celebrates the authors’ profound bond with each other, offers candid insight into their lives and careers, and explores the differing paths of spirituality they have taken through a multigenerational saga that has come full circle beneath the Iberian sun. What emerges is a raw, strikingly intimate portrait of two seekers whom readers will come to know as strong men of many important roles, perhaps the greatest of which are as fathers and sons.

http://www.amazon.com/Along-Way-Journey-Father-Son/dp/1451643683/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328327383&sr=1-1
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