The Billy Bob Tapes
图书信息
| 作者 | Thornton, Billy Bob |
| 出版社 | William Morrow |
| ISBN | 9780062101792 |
| 出版时间 | 2012-05-01 |
| 字数 | 34.2万 |
| 分类 | William Morrow,进口书,外文原版书,小说 |
读书简介
Raised in small-town Arkansas, Billy Bob Thornton grew up amid a rich storytelling tradition. See, the South is just different than other places. . . . You can feel the ghosts there. As a kid, he would sit on the porch listening to his family or some old man down the road spinning yarns about colorful neighbors. These stories didn't have to be made up. The characters were already there, so the stories just came out of the characters we knew. Thus was borne his Oscar-winning masterpiece Sling Blade and now The Billy Bob Tapes a narrative based on late-night conversations with Kinky Friedman and other friends who gathered 'round to hear Billy mine a cave full of ghosts. Billy grew up shooting squirrels, playing drums in VFW clubs, and dreaming of rock 'n' roll stardom or pitching for the St. Louis Cardinals. Then at sixteen he took a drama class to meet chicks and met Mrs. Treadway, who noticed the young man's talent and encouraged him as an actor and writer. "You don't know what it's like to be a drama teacher in a small town in Arkansas where nobody really cares," she said, "but let me tell you something. You can do this." Everything I've accomplished since, I can trace back to this woman, Maudie Treadway.The colorful characters, stories, and experiences of his youth would find their way into Billy's work, in his films and music, and in his perspective and attitude. It's like the old saying goes: you can take the boy out of the hills, but you can't take the hills out of the boy. That boy did leave the hills for Hollywood Hills. A true fish out of water, he recalls stories of miserable jobs, the cheapest accommodations, and physical hunger but also a devoted writing partner Tom Epperson, a life-changing acting teacher in L.A., and a compassionate nurse who snuck him milk shakes when he was near starvation. But there was always the dream of being an actor, and his fortunes turned when he served hors d'oeuvres as a catering waiter to legendary director Billy Wilder, who advised him, "Write about your interesting life." Billy's long career in Hollywood yields stories of inspired collaborations and failed ones, true friendships with other actors and musicians, and good friends gone too soon. In The Billy Bob Tapes, he reflects on the critics, the culture around fame, and the challenges of conveying an artistic vision in film. Most striking is Billy's clear-eyed perspective about the magic of entertainment, and how we perceive it in a rapidly changing world. With passion, unvarnished honesty, wry humor, and a little help from friends Angelina Jolie, Robert Duvall, Dwight Yoakam, Tom Epperson, and Daniel Lanois, Billy Bob finally talks.
目录
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Billy Bob Thornton
Behind the Scenes
“Why a Book Now?”
“Cave Full of Ghosts”
Chapter One: Alpine, Arkansas: God’s Country
Chapter Two: Character Study
Chapter Three: It’s Real Hard to Get Away with Shit
Chapter Four: My Mom and the Gift
Chapter Five: Don’t Ever Call Him Daddy
Chapter Six: Uncle Don and Them
Chapter Seven: Testifying Turkey Ass and Pawn Shop Prosthetics
Chapter Eight: “Dangerous News in Safe Town”
Chapter Nine: “In the Day”
Chapter Ten: “Saturday Afternoon a Half a Century On”
Chapter Eleven: “Providence”
Chapter Twelve: My Unremarkable College Career
Chapter Thirteen: “The Acid Room”
Chapter Fourteen: Dear Billy Bob
Chapter Fifteen: “Breakin’ Down”
Chapter Sixteen: “Pie in the Sky”
Chapter Seventeen: “An Island of My Own”
Chapter Eighteen: Rewriting Othello: The Othie and Desi Show
Chapter Nineteen: Let’s Don’t Start No Circus
Chapter Twenty: “When I Come Around”
Chapter Twenty-One: “Dead End Drive”
Chapter Twenty-Two: “Was That My Only Ride?”
Chapter Twenty-Three: “Hey Joe Public”
Chapter Twenty-Four: “Never Been Dead in My Life”
Chapter Twenty-Five: “The Walking Extinct”
Chapter Twenty-Six: To Billy Bob, from a Big Fan–Billy Wilder
Chapter Twenty-Seven: October 3, 1988
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Burt Reynolds Prophecy
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Sling Blade
Chapter Thirty: John Ritter
Chapter Thirty-One: You People
Chapter Thirty-Two: Viva la Independence
Chapter Thirty-Three: Black and White
Chapter Thirty-Four: A Singular Vision
Chapter Thirty-Five: Things are Fucked Up at the North Pole
Chapter Thirty-Six: On the Front Porch: Conversations with Daniel Lanois
Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Simple Plan
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Pushing Tin
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Bandits
Chapter Forty: Angie
Chapter Forty-One: My Term as Mayor of the Sunset Marquis
Chapter Forty-Two: “Game of Shadows”
Chapter Forty-Three: The Ballad of the Alamo
Chapter Forty-Four: “There’s Always Somebody Watchin’ ”
Chapter Forty-Five: I Don’t Hate Canada
Chapter Forty-Six: My New Year’s Resolution: Try to Calm the Fuck Down
Chapter Forty-Seven: Jayne Mansfield’s Car
Chapter Forty-Eight: High Definition in a Cracker Box
Chapter Forty-Nine: Let’s Go See Movies Again
Chapter Fifty: Billy the Dad
Acknowledgments
Photo Section
About the Authors
Copyright
About the Publisher
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