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Silver Screen Fiend (Audio book) - Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film

English · Audio book

Will be released 06.01.2015

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Zusammenfassung The instant New York Times bestseller from author! comedian and actor Patton Oswalt! a “heartfelt and hilarious” ( USA TODAY ) memoir about coming of age as a performer during the late 1990s while obsessively watching classic films at a legendary theater in Los Angeles. “[Oswalt has] a set of synapses like a pinball machine and a prose style to match” ( The New York Times ). Between 1995 and 1999! Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction. It wasn’t drugs! alcohol! or sex: it was film. After moving to Los Angeles! Oswalt became a huge film buff (or as he calls it! a sprocket fiend)! absorbing classics! cult hits! and new releases at the famous New Beverly Cinema. Silver screen celluloid became Patton’s life schoolbook! informing his notion of acting! writing! comedy! and relationships. Set in the nascent days of LA’s alternative comedy scene! Silver Screen Fiend chronicles Oswalt’s journey from fledgling stand-up comedian to self-assured sitcom actor! with the colorful New Beverly collective and a cast of now-notable young comedians supporting him all along the way. “Clever and readable...Oswalt’s encyclopedic knowledge and frothing enthusiasm for films (from sleek noir classics! to gory B movies! to cliché-riddled independents! to big empty blockbusters) is relentlessly present! whirring in the background like a projector” ( The Boston Globe ). More than a memoir! this is “a love song to the silver screen” ( Paste Magazine ). Informationen zum Autor Patton Oswalt is the author of the New York Times bestseller Zombie Spaceship Wasteland . He has released four TV specials and four critically acclaimed comedy albums! including the Grammy-nominated My Weakness Is Strong . He put together the Comedians of Comedy tour and television series. Oswalt has also appeared on many television shows and in more than twenty films! including Young Adult ! Big Fan ! and Ratatouille . He lives in Los Angeles! California. ...

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Authors Patton Oswalt, Patton/ Oswalt Oswalt
Assisted by Patton Oswalt (Reader / Narrator)
Publisher Simon & Schuster USA
 
Languages English
Product format CD-Audio
Release 06.01.2015, delayed
 
EAN 9781442375130
ISBN 978-1-4423-7513-0
Subjects Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire
Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet

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