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Cargando... Revenge of the Nerd: Or . . . The Singular Adventures of the Man Who Would Be Boogerpor Curtis Armstrong
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"Risky Business. Revenge of the Nerds. Better Off Dead. Moonlighting. Supernatural. American Dad. New Girl. What do all of these movies and television shows have in common? Curtis Armstrong. A legendary comedic second banana to a litany of major stars, Curtis is forever cemented in the public imagination as Booger from Revenge of the Nerds. A classically trained actor, Curtis began his incredible 40-year career on stage but progressed rapidly to film and television. He was typecast early and it proved to be the best thing that could have happened. But there's more to Curtis' story than that. Born and bred a nerd, he spent his early years between Detroit, a city so nerdy that the word was coined there in 1951, and, improbably, Geneva, Switzerland. His adolescence and early adulthood was spent primarily between the covers of a book and indulging his nerdy obsessions. It was only when he found his true calling, as an actor and unintentional nerd icon, that he found true happiness. With whip-smart, self-effacing humor, Armstrong takes us on a most unlikely journey--one nerd's hilarious, often touching rise to the middle. He started his life as an outcast and matured into...well, an older, slightly paunchier, hopefully wiser outcast. In Hollywood, as in life, that counts as winning the game"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Or rather I suspect they are a sop to readers as instead Armstrong loves to write about his nerd-cred and social-justice bona-fides. Here's the thing: his performances convey that. He's not one of the despicable actors; everything about him is lovable on some level, even when he is obliquely admitting to Hollywood excess taking their toll on his marriage.
The prose is lively and funny. There are moments of deep personal honesty, and his descriptions of the weirdness of working on several of the other (non-Moonlighting) dysfunctional sets are pretty great (shades of [b:With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant|29077304|With Nails The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant|Richard E. Grant|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1455271768s/29077304.jpg|124585], though in fairness to Armstrong, Grant's funnier Willis anecdotes are somewhat further into Bruce's insanity-trajectory), but it feels like the book he really wanted to write isn't a memoir. Let's hope he gets to write that one next. (