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Sterling Hayden always fascinated me because he seemed like a real person of substance, not merely a movie star. I remember passing him on Madison Avenue in the 1970s as he was coming out of Brooks Brothers, a tall man with a scraggly patriarch beard and the cane that became his trademark in his later years, and what remains in my memory is the impression of how different he was from everyone else on that street in New York on that day. His autobiography, Wanderer, has confirmed that my instincts were correct. "I'm a professional irregular," he once confessed. "The only way I can get by in life is not to be like anybody else." And he wasn't. His life was one adventure after another, beginning with his stark upbringing during the Depression, moving around with his con man stepfather and emotionally needy mother, running away to sea on the sailing ships of New England, suddenly being discovered by Hollywood, marrying a famous movie star, serving in the OSS in Yugoslavia, appearing before the McCarthy people, turning in some fabulous acting in top films (Dr. Strangelove, The Godfather, and The Long Goodbye are my favorites), and taking his four kids on a schooner to Tahiti in defiance of a court order. Two things impressed me about Wanderer. The first is his eloquent command of the English language and his gift for description, which are all the more astounding given his lack of formal education. The second is that unlike so many celebrity tell-all books that reveal who they screwed (literally and figuratively) and who screwed them, Hayden's revelations are about himself. He holds no punches in revealing his demons, which were legion. Wanderer reads like a novel, all the more captivating because it was all true.