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I blame Dennis Hopper : and other stories from a life lived in and out of the movies / Illeana Douglas.

by Douglas, Illeana, 1965-

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Flatiron Books, 2015.

791.43028 D7342i

Douglas, Illeana, 1965-

Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.

Television actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.

Actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography

9781250052919 (hc.)

1250052912 (hc.)

293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Prologue -- I blame Dennis Hopper -- They came from within: love and romance at the drive-in -- Camelot -- In the key of Liza -- Chance encounters -- Me doing Dreyfuss doing Tracy -- Screaming for Marty -- What's it like to work with Robert De Niro? -- Happy just to be alive -- Uncle Roddy -- A director to die for -- A woman's picture -- You're a tuning fork -- The roulette wheel of insanity -- Easy to assemble -- Epilogue.

"In 1969 Illeana Douglas' parents saw the film Easy Rider and were transformed. Taking Dennis Hopper's words, "That's what it's all about man" to heart, they abandoned their comfortable upper middle class life and gave Illeana a childhood filled with hippies, goats, free spirits, and free love. Illeana writes, "Since it was all out of my control, I began to think of my life as a movie, with a Dennis Hopper-like father at the center of it." A testament to the power of art and the tenacity of passion. An exploration of the way movies can change our lives. Douglas describes how a good Liza Minnelli impression helped her land her first gig and how Rudy Valley taught her the meaning of being a show biz trouper. From her first experience being on set with her grandfather and mentor, the Academy Award-winning actor Melvyn Douglas (star of Ninotchka (1939), Hud (1963), and Being There (1979)) - to the moment she was discovered by Martin Scorsese for her blood-curdling scream and cast in her first film, to starring in movies alongside Robert DeNiro, Nicole Kidman, and Ethan Hawke, this is a love letter to movies and filmmaking. Douglas packs each page with hilarious anecdotes, bizarre coincidences, and fateful meetings that seem, well, right out of a plot of a movie. The story of one woman's experience in show business, and a reminder of why we all love the movies: for the glitz, the glamor, the sweat, passion, humor, and escape they offer us all. Illeana Douglas has starred in films like Goodfellas, Cape Fear, To Die For, Picture Perfect, Ghost World, as well as TV shows from Six Feet Under to Welcome to Sweden."--Provided by publisher.

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