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February 22, 2003
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of A B-Movie Actor
Bruce Campbell is the man. Everyone knows it. If you ever watch his acting you would see and recognize this fact. But if you were too blind to see it through his acting then, just listen to him talk about his acting, film, and numerous other topics to soon discover his brilliance.
Jim got me a signed copy of his book a couple months back. It took me awhile, but I've finally gotten around to reading it. It's not a terribly difficult read and ended up taking all of one snowed in weekend between shoveling contests. Rest assured though this is classic Campbell with comments and views on life and movie making that are great.
I'm not typically one to read autobiographies either, but I'd recommend this to anyone thinking of starting to make movies. Mr. Campbell shares with the reader many of the issues that had arisen during the filming of his numerous low budget extravaganzas. Granted, I'm still unsure how many of these issues were brought upon themselves by themselves, but it does let you realize that everything will go wrong somehow. The trick seems to be to keep on laughing about it. :)
It's worth buying. Or at the very least loaning from the local library. I'm just happy mine has been signed, too bad I've almost ripped the back cover off...
Posted by Dan at February 22, 2003 07:12 AM