In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Diane Keaton talks about her new memoir, Brother & Sister, and the troubled sibling at its center
Jack and Dorothy Hall were concerned about their son’s behavior but didn’t seek professional help. It was a time when psychological issues were less talked about, and Keaton thinks her civil engineer father found the idea of therapy “kind of threatening.” But when the Vietnam draft began, they arranged for a psychiatrist to see him and he received a deferment.
“I think it’s hard for anyone who has a sibling who’s out there, throwing themselves into the world and getting recognition,” says Keaton. “I wouldn’t be happy to have a sister like that. Nobody wants to be compared.” “I became addicted to watching horror movies, hoping the films would have some gruesome murder of a woman….” Hall wrote in a letter to Keaton, which she includes in her book.Diane Keaton's brother Randy HallRELATED VIDEO: Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson Star in New Romantic Comedy Hampstead
By the time he was 65, Hall was showing signs of dementia and had to be institutionalized. But, surprisingly, it wasn’t a purely dark time for him. Before his dementia worsened, he continued to make art.
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