Secrets and Stories from Stage, Screen, and Interwebs
Lyons Press
November 2012
On Sale: November 6, 2012
250 pages ISBN: 076278055X EAN: 9780762780556 Kindle: B009W1JCRU Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
One of Comedy Centralβs Top 100 Stand-Up Comedians of All Time, award-winning dramatic actor, and an internet pioneer, Kevin Pollak has done it all for thirty years and is ready to spill the beans. Best known for performances in A Few Good Men and The Usual Suspects, he shares never-before-heard stories of film legends like De Niro, Hanks, Howard, Lemon, Loren, Lucas, Martin, Mathau, Reiner, Scorcese, Singer, Willis, and more. He turned down his first invitation to do stand-up on The Tonight Show because he knew that heβd have a bigger impact if he sat next to Johnny instead of performing onstage. When he gambled for a spot on the most coveted couch in showbiz, he had no agent, no auditions, no prospects. But his gut was right: A year later, his first sit with the king of late night led to three visits a year, every year, until Carson retired. Now a new media entrepreneur, Pollak is laughing proof that you can do anything you wantβexcept have a rational conversation with Rip Torn, whoβs an evil, paranoid $#!%.
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