Jodie's brother digs up dirt on Foster child

Sunday Star-Times | August 31, 1997| | Copyright

FOSTER CHILD: An Intimate Biography of Jodie Foster, by Buddy Foster and Leon Wagener, Heinemann, $39.95.

Reviewed by IAIN SHARP

BLABBER-MOUTHED creep though he is, shamelessly cashing in on his sibling's success, it's hard not to feel sorry for Jodie Foster's older brother Buddy. For a brief period in the 1960s he was a moderately successful child actor, but he was soon eclipsed by Jodie (five years his junior) -- an infant prodigy blessed with a photographic memory and a dedicated approach to the acting profession that put her adult co- stars to shame. By the age of 14 Buddy was a has-been ...

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