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My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life
Little Brown and Company
February 2011
On Sale: February 9, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 0316078999
EAN: 9780316078993
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Yep that's me, Hal Needham, on the cover doing a fire stunt.
When you're on fire you don't dare breathe because if you
do, you'll suck those flames right down your throat. I was
Hollywood's highest paid stuntman so I should know. I wrecked hundreds of cars, fell from tall buildings, got
blown up, was dragged by horses, and along the way broke 56
bones, my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few
teeth...I hung upside down by my ankles under a bi-plane in
The Spirit of St. Louis, jumped between galloping horses in
Little Big Man, set a world record for a boat stunt on
Gator, jumped a rocket powered pick-up truck across a canal
for a GM commercial, was the first human to test the car
airbag-and taught John Wayne how to really throw a movie punch. Life also got exciting outside of the movie business. I had
my Ferrari stolen right from under my nose, flew in a
twin-engine Cessna with a passed out pilot, rescued the cast
and crew from a Russian invasion in Czechoslovakia, and once
took six flight attendants on a date. I owned the
Skoal-Bandit NASCAR race team, the sound-barrier breaking
Budweiser Rocket Car and drove a souped-up, fake ambulance
in a "little" cross-country race called The Cannonball Run,
which became the movie I directed by the same name. Oh yeah,
I also directed Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper and several
other action/comedy movies that I liked a bunch. I was a sharecropper's son from the hills of Arkansas who
became a Hollywood stuntman. That journey was a tough row to
hoe. I continually risked my life but that was the career I
chose. I was never late to the set and did whatever I had to
do to get the job done. Hollywood's not all sunglasses and autographs. Let me tell
you a few stories...
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