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The Making of an Accidental Actor
Scribner
October 2010
On Sale: October 5, 2010
288 pages
ISBN: 1439169993
EAN: 9781439169995
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
IN 2008, as he attempted to enter Canada to film a
television series, Harry Hamlin—the former star of L.A. Law
and once People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive—was detained at
the border for unresolved narcotics convictions. And so
begins Full Frontal Nudity, a laugh-out-loud-funny memoir in
which Harry digs deep into his past to recount the wacky
experiences of his childhood, the twisted path that led to
his alleged criminal behavior, and the series of fortuitous
mishaps that drove him to become an actor. Harry was reared
in suburban California in the late 1950s by a gin-gulping,
pill-popping housewife mother and a rocket scientist father
with a secret life. On its surface, his childhood was not
unlike his peers’, except that he was kicked out of the
fourth grade for writing a book report on Mein Kampf and,
when he was eleven, his parents gave him a subscription to
Playboy for Christmas. Curious by nature, chock-full of
boyish charm and good looks, Harry experimented with
mystical religion and set off for Woodstock, only to
narrowly avoid lighting the whole of Yellowstone National
Park on fire. At eighteen, he was ready to matriculate at
Berkeley and become the architect he always wanted to be.
But fate—this time in the form of a large Hells Angel, a few
purple microdots, and an evening in the tree houses of La
Honda—got in the way.Sharp and bawdy, Full Frontal Nudity
spans the years from Harry’s childhood through his time at
Berkeley (which he was asked to leave after he was accused
of running a brothel), to Yale, then on an extended vacation
in the Yucatán, and finally to the American Conservatory
Theater, where Harry played his first lead role—as the
buck-naked star of Equus. Full Frontal Nudity is an uproarious memoir that captures an
era and describes the unlikely origins of a star.
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