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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.43028092
EAN: 9780470106372
ISBN: 0470106379
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: April 20, 2007
Publisher: Wiley
Sales Rank: 450435
Studio: Wiley
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Bruce Dern has worked with practically every iconic actor and director in the last fifty years, and he’s not afraid to say what he thinks about all of them. His career has run the gamut from B movies to Z movies to becoming an Oscar nominee, and he’s created some of the most indelible performances in modern cinema. Now, in this uniquely funny memoir, he looks back over his amazing career, telling one memorable story after another and giving key insights into how placing artistic challenge over career development has kept one of Hollywood’s greatest actors from also being one of its most rich and famous.
People love reading about red carpet regulars, and Dern doesn’t disappoint. He writes candidly and unforgettably about working with Alfred Hitchcock, John Frankenheimer, Claude Chabrol, Jack Nicholson, Paul Newman, Bob Dylan, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Jane Fonda, John Wayne, and many more. Readers will discover why he turned down potentially career-making roles in The Godfather, Marathon Man, and Gandhi; why his prestigious family disowned him over a typo in the New York Times; and why, after he was already famous, he agreed to star in The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant, the second best two-headed transplant movie of 1971.
As Dern’s career moves full steam ahead in the HBO series Big Love and Astronaut Farmer (his forthcoming film with Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton), Things I’ve Said, but Probably Shouldn’t Have is the book not just Dern fans and Hollywood enthusiasts will be talking about this season.
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Even though I haven't seen most of the films he talks about, his stories and comments about his films and the people he worked with make for a very lively book. I have now ordered a few of the films he talks about.
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I've heard the expression ....once I started reading I couldn't put it down till I was finished but this is the first book that worked that way for me. I found the style that Mr Dern used to describe his history and the movies he was a part of to be very conversational and quite an easy read for me. Of course growing up watching him in the movies made a big difference as I knew all the pictures he was talking about and the people.
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Bruce Dern didnt have high visibility for me as an actor, but he can dish with the best. He knew and worked with a lot of people in the movie industry and they are all here in his book. I enjoyed it quite a lot. Mr. Dern is quite a character, and not a boring one. To read this book is to gain insight into just how egocentric actors can be.
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I have always collected character actors that I really admire, Bruce was one of my first, he could creep me out like no one else. I learned he was actually from a prominent Chicago family and was amazed. I've always kind of wanted to know what made him tick. This book is answering that in spades. It sounds just like what I thought he might and it is fascinating so far. I'm not quite finished but the stories are wonderful. He knows all the great ones. I didn't expect to love him, and I don't, ... Read More
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At last a tell all memoir from the last remaining hold out of the famous Actors Studio in New York, the man who worked with Gadg and Robert Lewis and Lee Strasberg and Joseph Lewis and Stella Adler and all the rest of them. I didn't realize Bruce Dern was such a plutocrat and that the upper class snob character he portrays in THE GREAT GATSBY was a perfect fit for him, but in this book he comes out as a trust fund kid in a big way and he never loses that expansive country club manner. He was from ... Read More
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