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- Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 298 pages, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations.
- Summary
- 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 them. In this memoir, he looks back over his 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. He writes candidly 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, why his prestigious family disowned him, and why, after he was already famous, he agreed to star in The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant.--From publisher description.
- Uniform Title
- Things I've said, but probably shouldn't have (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Things I've said, but probably shouldn't have (Online)
- Things I've said but probably shouldn't have: an unrepentant memoir.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Hardback edition published as : Things I've said but probably shouldn't have: an unrepentant memoir.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- 1 How Does This Happen, Bruce Dern? -- 2 Dinner with the Derns. -- 3 You Can Train All You Want, but the Watch Don't Lie. -- 4 The Name Is Stern, Bruce Stern. -- 5 Sick Brucie. -- 6 I'm Having Bill Smithers's Career. -- 7 You Are Not a Leading Man . -- 8 Star of the Second Best Two Headed Transplant Movie of 1971. -- 9 Jack Job. -- 10 Saying No to Coppola. -- 11 I Killed John Wayne. -- 12 I'm Still Sorry, Burt Reynolds. -- 13 Saying No to Woody Allen. -- 14 And I Said No to Bertolucci. -- 15 Le Dern Hot. -- 16 Dr. Death El Demento. -- 17 I Can't Make It through a Hobbit Movie. -- 18 Briefer's Better. -- 19 Three Days, Two Million. -- 20 Glencoe Asshole. -- 21 It's a Maud, Maud, Maud, Maud World. -- 22 Cycle Savage Meets Gumby. -- 23 A Manilow for All Seasons. -- 24 The Final Frontier, for Now. -- 25 The Encyclopedia Brucetannica. -- 26 Hitting the Wall. -- 27 Apocalypse Marriage, Redux. -- 28 Making a Monster. -- 29 Going Right for the Jugular. -- Acknowledgments. -- Index.
- LCCN
- 2014434220
- OCLC
- ssj0001561463
- Author
Dern, Bruce.
- Title
Bruce Dern [electronic resource] : a memoir / Bruce Dern with Christopher Fryer and Robert Crane.
- Imprint
Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
- Edition
Paperback edition.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Fryer, Christopher.
Crane, Robert, 1951-
- Added Title
Things I've said but probably shouldn't have: an unrepentant memoir.