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Bezig met laden... Take Your Shirt Off and Cry: A Memoir of Near-Fame Experiencesdoor Nancy Balbirer
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. This book was a delight to read - I really enjoyed the behind-the-scenes peeks into Ms. Balbour's acting career. I appreciated the sheen of humor that she casts over her stories, so that even in her frustrations and despair, you're still managing to laugh along with her. Well, I read this because I wanted to know what goes on in the heads of all those actors who go to LA dreaming of "making it", and uh... don't get famous. It did that, and I also found out what my opinion on David Mamet is (he sucks, he's terrible, why do people continue to listen this blowhard on anything). The book isn't terribly exciting, or terribly informative, or terribly well written, or terribly anything except terribly average. Which, because I wanted a terribly average actor's terribly average life story, was perfect. Thank God she didn't play it off like it was some sort of tragedy, just ordinary adult frustration and disappointment. That would have been terribly terrible. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. This book is really entertaining and fun to read even though it deals with the painful struggle of trying to make it as actress in Hollywood. Nancy's portrayal of her experiences as an aspiring actress is candid and self-aware but most of all her perspective is always so funny! Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. I enjoyed this book. It wouldn’t be on the top of my list to read again, but overall it was humorous and a nice way to spend an afternoon. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
One woman's laugh-out-loud account of the oddities, indignities, and outright absurdities of a life in show business. In this strikingly candid memoir, Nancy Balbirer distills two decades of drama school, auditions, bit parts, cameos, and off-Broadway plays into an account by turns hilarious and horrifying . From studying theater in college under the searing purism of David Mamet ("Being a woman in [show] business, you'll be asked to do only two things in every fucking role you ever play: take your shirt off and cry. That's it. Take your shirt off and cry.") to weathering advice from her brazenly insensitive L.A. agent ("I didn't think it was possible. But you managed to bore Luke Perry") to scoring a Saturday Night Live audition based on a drunken Debra Winger impersonation, Balbirer's adventures are sometimes bizarre, sometimes painful, and always unforgettable. Between run-ins with an eccentric cast of all-too-real characters, including an infatuated acting teacher who introduces Nancy to the joys of firearms, a former sex symbol desperately seeking a toilet, and a jazz musician who fancies himself a reincarnated Jack Kerouac, Balbirer wrestles with her own ambitions and disappointments, struggling to determine what she really wants and who she really is. She may not be destined for Hollywood stardom, but as Take Your Shirt Off and Cry makes clear, she is definitely a one-of-a-kind talent. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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