By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There: A Memoir (30 page)

Me with actor Michael Wincott (on the right) and another friend. We worked together early in my career, on
Born on the Fourth of July
and
Strange Days.
(Copyright Tom Sizemore)

On
Devil in a Blue Dress
. That was a terrific movie I made in between
Natural Born Killers
and
Strange Days
. (Copyright Tom Sizemore)

Me playing Scrooge in a Wayne State University production of
A Christmas Carol.
My little brother Paul played Tiny Tim. Wayne State was where I first started to get positive feedback about my acting. (Copyright Tom Sizemore)

On the set of
Flight of the Intruder
with my costar Brad Johnson, the late Mace Neufeld, the legendary producer, and my former manager Suzan Bymel. (Copyright Tom Sizemore)

On the set of
Hustle
, the Pete Rose movie, which was directed by the great Peter Bogdanovich. Peter told me he didn’t worry about people’s reputations because John Ford’s wife had told him, “If you want to stay in the movie business, never believe everything you hear and only believe half of what you see.” (Copyright Tom Sizemore)

On the set of
Red Planet
with Simon Baker, during an all-too-rare moment when everything wasn’t going awry. (Copyright Tom Sizemore)

On the set of
Robbery Homicide Division
. I was working with my
Heat
director, Michael Mann, and doing some of the best work of my career, but my life was on the verge of falling apart. (Copyright Tom Sizemore)

On the set of
Black Hawk Down
with William Fichtner. I stayed sober on the set by playing a lot of chess with Ewan McGregor; I think he beat me 664 games in a row. (Copyright Tom Sizemore)

On the set of
Flight of the Intruder
. Willem Dafoe, whom I’d met on
Born on the Fourth of July
, was in it, as was Rosanna Arquette—someone Edie Falco and I thought of as the epitome of a famous actress when we were struggling. (Copyright Tom Sizemore)

My twin sons, Jayden and Jagger. If they misbehave, I give them a “time out” but I try to tell them, “I don’t approve, but I love you.” (Copyright Tom Sizemore)

On the set of
Strange Days
. It was my second time working with Juliette Lewis while we were involved. We worked for 17 weeks of all night shoots. (Copyright Tom Sizemore)

Me photographed by Sean Penn at the famous hotel, Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood. Sean used to take photos of his celeb friends at the Chateau and was the guy I always called whenever I got into a jam with a woman because he’s really good with women. (Copyright Sean Penn)