Bruce Dern
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Bruce Dern

A Memoir

  1. 355 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 How Does This Happen, Bruce Dern?
  8. 2 Dinner with the Derns
  9. 3 You Can Train All You Want, but the Watch Don’t Lie
  10. 4 The Name Is Stern, Bruce Stern
  11. 5 Sick Brucie
  12. 6 I’m Having Bill Smithers’s Career
  13. 7 ā€œYou Are Not a Leading Manā€
  14. 8 Star of the Second-Best Two-Headed-Transplant Movie of 1971
  15. 9 Jack Job
  16. 10 Saying No to Coppola
  17. 11 I Killed John Wayne
  18. 12 I’m Still Sorry, Burt Reynolds
  19. 13 Saying No to Woody Allen
  20. 14 And I Said No to Bertolucci
  21. 15 Le Dern Hot
  22. 16 Dr. Death El Demento
  23. 17 I Can’t Make It through a Hobbit Movie
  24. 18 Briefer’s Better
  25. 19 Three Days, Two Million
  26. 20 Glencoe Asshole
  27. 21 It’s a Maud, Maud, Maud, Maud World
  28. 22 Cycle Savage Meets Gumby
  29. 23 A Manilow for All Seasons
  30. 24 The Final Frontier, for Now
  31. 25 The Encyclopedia Brucetannica
  32. 26 Hitting the Wall
  33. 27 Apocalypse Marriage, Redux
  34. 28 Making a Monster
  35. 29 Going Right for the Jugular
  36. Acknowledgments
  37. Index