For Jackey Neyman Jones, who played Debbie in Manos The Hands of Fate, the worst movie ever made is, at its heart, a home movie that just happens to be shared with the world. Equal parts memoirfamily sagafilm book, Growing Up with Manos The Hands of Fate shares the behind-the-scenes story of the making of Manos from creator Hal Warren's alleged bet with TV producer Stirling Silliphant that anyone could make a movie, to the tragic suicide of John Reynolds Torgo, right up through the newest Manos-related projects that are carrying the film into the digital age. Jackey's stories dispel much of the Manos mythology while crystallizing a unique time and place in America, where a crew of actors with a bad script and a rented camera set out to make a bad movie-and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Jackey Neyman Jones is a professional artist living in the Great Northwest. Laura Mazzuca Toops is a writereditor with more than 30 years' experience in business and fiction writing. She is the