Research Catalog

Title

Cheech is not my real name : but don't call me Chong! / Cheech Marin with John Hassan.

Author

Marin, Cheech

Publication

New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hassan, John

Description

viii, 260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "A memoir by the counterculture legend discusses how he formed one of the most successful comedy duos of all time, became a representative of the recreational drug movement, forged a successful solo career, and amassed a collection of renowned Chicano art, "--NoveList.
• Cheech Marin writes candidly about growing up as a wisecracking kid in south central LA, resisting the draft, and his chance meeting with Tommy Chong--and how they formed one of the most successful comedy acts of all time, breaking up, reuniting, and still performing together to this day. Cheech the storyteller takes the reader on a wild ride along his strange and wonderful path to fame that saw the son of a policeman become the face of the recreational drug movement. He describes his early artistic aspirations to become a potter, his brief stint as a magazine reporter when he interviewed Little Richard, and his surreal and unlikely ascent to the top of the comedy world. Cheech also details how his passion for Chicano art led him to assemble the world's finest private collection, and how he bested the likes of Anderson Cooper to win Celebrity Jeopardy! Written with his trademark comedic flair and replete with colorful characters both famous and obscure, this is a fresh, funny, and unstintingly honest account of an incredible life and career that represents a "new high" in autobiography.--From book jacket.

Subject

• Marin, Cheech
• Comedians > United States > Biography
• Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography
• Hispanic American motion picture actors and actresses > Biography
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Entertainment & Performing Arts
• Comedians
• Hispanic American motion picture actors and actresses
• Motion picture actors and actresses
• United States

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.

Contents

What are you? -- Up on the rooftop -- In the dead of night -- A change of scenery -- Father Marin? -- A Hard Day's Night -- What else have they been lying about? -- A cross-fire hurricane -- A big day of castrating -- Meeting Tommy Chong -- We want tits! -- Do you have a nickname? -- One small problem -- What happened to the leopard you had last night? -- Bank error in your favor -- Who's Lou Adler? -- Dave's not here -- Hitting the road -- If you could please not do that dog bit -- In and out of dry dock -- Weeniegate -- Hooray for Hollywood -- Up in smoke -- A lesson in show business -- You're slouching -- You're into video, I'm into film -- Born in East L.A. -- Tito, Banzai, and Ramone -- Ladies and gentlemen, Chet Pussy!! -- Louie, Alex, and me -- Tin Cup -- Nash Bridges -- The late Henry Moss -- Chicano art -- The night Kate Middleton asked me to dance -- Endings, reunions, and new beginnings.

ISBN

• 9781455592340
• 145559234X
• 9781478934844 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781478934851 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781455592326 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2016030657

OCLC

• ocn953598682
• 953598682
• SCSB-1882166

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library