Research Catalog

Title

The full burn : on the set, at the bar, behind the wheel, and over the edge with Hollywood stuntmen / Kevin Conley.

Author

Conley, Kevin, 1960-

Publication

New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.

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Description

214 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.); 25 cm.

Summary

Journalist Kevin Conley takes readers inside one of the most fascinating and dangerous jobs in the world. With access to many of the legends of the field, including Uma Thurman's double for Kill Bill and the genius behind the Jason Bourne movies, Conley gives a passenger's-seat view of the stuntman's life: the history, the culture, and the tricks of the trade, showing how--and why--stuntmen do what they do. What's the greatest stunt ever performed? Why is the divorce rate among stuntmen so high? What's it like to go to work not knowing whether you'll come back? What's it like for your wife? What's the scariest trick a stuntman does? Conley delivers the answers in the form of vivid tales from his subjects' lives--and one from his own, when he subjects himself to the rite of passage known as the "full burn."--From publisher description.

Subject

• Stuntman
• Stunt performers
• Stunt performers > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The Art of the Crash -- 2. Nine on the Balls Meter -- 3. Is There a Problem, Officer? -- 4. Gravity and Blondes -- 5. The Craziest Stuntman in the World -- 6. Wonder Women and Titty Twisters -- 7. One Wide, One Tight, Good Luck -- 8. Skid and Burn -- 9. I Never Saw This in Hooper.

ISBN

• 1596910232 (hardcover)
• 9781596910232 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^2008017883

OCLC

• 226038377
• SCSB-11545681

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library