This memoir by the Academy Award nominee "proves that Dern off-screen is every bit as unpredictable, compelling and explosively honest as he is onscreen" ( Newsday ). One of Hollywood's biggest personalities, Bruce Dern is not afraid to say what he thinks. He has left an indelible mark on numerous projects, from critically acclaimed films to made-for-TV movies and television series. His notable credits include The Great Gatsby, The 'Burbs, Monster, Django Unchained, and Nebraska, for which he won the Best Actor award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. He also earned Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor in Coming Home and for Best Actor in Nebraska. In Bruce Dern: A Memoir, Christopher Fryer and Robert Crane help the outspoken star frame the fascinating tale of his life in Hollywood. Dern details the challenges he faced as an artist in a cutthroat business, his struggle against typecasting, and his thoughts on and relationships with other famous figures, including Elia Kazan, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Nicholson, Paul Newman, Bob Dylan, Matt Damon, Jane Fonda, John Wayne, and Tom Hanks. He also explores the impact of his fame on his family and discusses his unique relationship with his daughter, actress Laura Dern. Edgy and uncensored, this memoir—filled with "amusing, illuminating, and occasionally heartrending anecdotes" ( Philadelphia Inquirer )—is a wild ride and an insider's view of fifty years in the film industry.

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Publisher

The University Press of Kentucky

Year

2014

ISBN

9780813147130

Topic

Medien & darstellende Kunst

Subtopic

Schauspielerei & Vorsprechen

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
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