"These are memoirs of a kid born in New York City in 1925. His dad, George Senior, was a pianist, composer, and orchestra leader at Proctor's Vaudeville Theatre, and his mother, Helen, played in a classic dance troupe. Hanky-panky ensued. They married, and I soon was the result...
I write like I talk. A long time ago I tried making 'talking and telling the truth' one and the same. That isn't just difficult; it means painfully reviewing things you've been led to believe since you were a child. That's very hard to do. Like many, I have marched along adhering to conventions (sex, color, church, party, gang) without examination. There's a wonderful, protective 'togetherness' in that anonymity. You obey or are damned, less joined together than stuck together. You become an echo rather than a voice.
This book is about what happens when you stop fearing and think.
I like writing, but warmed-over BS is not on the menu. You are the most important thing in life. Every phrase in the book – awkward or not – is how I think and question everything. I wrote every word as if we were sitting together. I want you to think, too..." – George Kennedy, from the preface
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1: Plenty of Nothin’
- 2: Hell, Oh Dolly
- 3: To Have and to Have Not
- 4: California
- 5: And Then I Slept With…
- 6: Let the Good Times Roll
- 7: Cool Hand Luck
- 8: Days of Wine and Roses
- 9: All in the Family
- 10: The Legend of Derek Bo Peep
- 11: The Naked Gone
- 12: For Aspiring Actors
- 13: Dearth on the Nile
- 14: The Eiger Sanction
- 15: Cogito Ergo Sum
- 16: Jimmy Stewart
- 17: Good Old Dependable
- Filmography
- Lyric Permissions