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HAL NEEDHAM Signed -Ins HC Book Stuntman! : My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed By
- HAL NEEDHAM
- Signed
- Yes
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- Yes
- Edition
- First Edition
- Type
- Autobiography
- Features
- Signed By HAL NEEDHAM
- ISBN
- 9780316078993
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316078999
ISBN-13
9780316078993
eBay Product ID (ePID)
108385829
Product Key Features
Book Title
Stuntman! : My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Rich & Famous, Personal Memoirs, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Acting & Auditioning, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
19.4 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-021821
Reviews
The Twentieth Century produced two amazing men, Albert Einstein and Hal Needham. Both were geniuses, but one was a truly outrageous, gifted, unique, and fearless director who touched all of our lives with wisdom, kindness, and LAUGHTER!, Hal Needham set the gold standard for Hollywood stuntmen and every page of his memoir reads like the greatest movies -- it's full of incredible stories as told by a real man of action., "Hal Needham has always seemed to be a guy who has total command in every situation he is in. I can't imagine having a better director for my acting debut in "Hooper" than Hal-and now that he finally put his life story on paper, I can't imagine a book I'd rather read."
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
791.430/28092 B
Synopsis
Yep that's me, Hal Needham, on the cover doing a fire stunt. When you're on fire you don't dare breathe because if you do, you'll suck those flames right down your throat. I was Hollywood's highest paid stuntman so I should know. I wrecked hundreds of cars, fell from tall buildings, got blown up, was dragged by horses, and along the way broke 56 bones, my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth...I hung upside down by my ankles under a bi-plane in The Spirit of St. Louis , jumped between galloping horses in Little Big Man , set a world record for a boat stunt on Gator , jumped a rocket powered pick-up truck across a canal for a GM commercial, was the first human to test the car airbag-and taught John Wayne how to really throw a movie punch. Life also got exciting outside of the movie business. I had my Ferrari stolen right from under my nose, flew in a twin-engine Cessna with a passed out pilot, rescued the cast and crew from a Russian invasion in Czechoslovakia, and once took six flight attendants on a date. I owned the Skoal-Bandit NASCAR race team, the sound-barrier breaking Budweiser Rocket Car and drove a souped-up, fake ambulance in a "little" cross-country race called The Cannonball Run , which became the movie I directed by the same name. Oh yeah, I also directed Smokey and the Bandit , Hooper and several other action/comedy movies that I liked a bunch. I was a sharecropper's son from the hills of Arkansas who became a Hollywood stuntman. That journey was a tough row to hoe. I continually risked my life but that was the career I chose. I was never late to the set and did whatever I had to do to get the job done. Hollywood's not all sunglasses and autographs. Let me tell you a few stories..., The incomparable, indestructible Hal Needham broke 56 bones and his back - twice - as a stuntman in movies and TV shows like Mission Impossible and The French Connection. He hung upside down from an airplane in Spirit of St. Louis, jumped between galloping horses in Little Big Man and he taught John Wayne how to really throw a punch.When his stunt career working with the likes of Kirk Douglas and Steve McQueen was over, Needham's adventures continued. He directed the classics Smokey and the Bandit and Cannonball Run, starring his roommate Burt Reynolds. He owned the Skoal Bandit NASCAR team and the Budweiser Rocket Car, which broke the sound barrier. Needham shares all the outrageous stories that could only come from a man who earned a living risking his life., The highest-paid Hollywood stuntman of the 1960s and 70s and director of the classic Smokey and the Bandit tells incredible stories from his high-speed, high impact life., The classic no-holds-barred memoir from Hollywood's most legendary stuntman -- an inspiration for Brad Pitt's character Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood -- is "full of incredible stories as told by a real man of action" (Arnold Schwarzenegger). Yep that's me, Hal Needham, on the cover doing a fire stunt. When you're on fire you don't dare breathe because if you do, you'll suck those flames right down your throat. I was Hollywood's highest paid stuntman so I should know. I wrecked hundreds of cars, fell from tall buildings, got blown up, was dragged by horses, and along the way broke 56 bones, my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth...I hung upside down by my ankles under a bi-plane in The Spirit of St. Louis , jumped between galloping horses in Little Big Man , set a world record for a boat stunt on Gator , jumped a rocket powered pick-up truck across a canal for a GM commercial, was the first human to test the car airbag-and taught John Wayne how to really throw a movie punch. Life also got exciting outside of the movie business. I had my Ferrari stolen right from under my nose, flew in a twin-engine Cessna with a passed out pilot, rescued the cast and crew from a Russian invasion in Czechoslovakia, and once took six flight attendants on a date. I owned the Skoal-Bandit NASCAR race team, the sound-barrier breaking Budweiser Rocket Car and drove a souped-up, fake ambulance in a "little" cross-country race called The Cannonball Run , which became the movie I directed by the same name. Oh yeah, I also directed Smokey and the Bandit , Hooper and several other action/comedy movies that I liked a bunch. I was a sharecropper's son from the hills of Arkansas who became a Hollywood stuntman. That journey was a tough row to hoe. I continually risked my life but that was the career I chose. I was never late to the set and did whatever I had to do to get the job done. Hollywood's not all sunglasses and autographs. Let me tell you a few stories...
LC Classification Number
PN1998.3.N3835A3
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