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New York Times bestselling author, comedian, and actor Patton Oswalt shares his entertaining memoir about coming of age as a performer and writer in the late '90s while obsessively watching classic films at the legendary New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles. Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakeable addiction. It wasn't drugs, alcohol, or sex. It was film. After moving to L.A., Oswalt became a huge film buff, absorbing classics and new releases at least three nights a week at the New Beverly Cinema. Silver screen celluloid became Patton's life schoolbook, informing his notions of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships. Set in the nascent days of the alternative comedy scene, Oswalt's memoir chronicles his journey from fledgling stand-up comedian to self-assured sitcom actor, with the colorful New Beverly collective supporting him all along the way. Ideally timed for awards season, when everyone's mind is on Hollywood, Silver Screen Fiend follows up on the terrific reception of Oswalt's New York Times bestselling debut, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland . Already a beloved fixture on the comedy stage, on television, and in film--not to mention his 1.87 million Twitter followers--Oswalt announces, with this second book, that he's also here to stay on the page.

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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1451673213
ISBN-13
9781451673210
eBay Product ID (ePID)
159791251

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Book Title
Silver Screen Fiend : Learning about Life from an Addiction to Film
Author
Patton Oswalt
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Film / General, Popular Culture, Comedy, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
11.9 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pn2287.O745a3 2015
Reviews
"[An] astute, acerbic, and footnote-crazy chronicle of life as a "movie freak mole man." ... Oswalt is a true cinephiliac, equally appreciative of the artistry of Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast and Doris Wishman's Bad Girls Go to Hell .", Oswalt's prose is sparkling.... A coming-of middle-age meditation, Oswalt's homage to films is both hilarious and heartfelt.", Silver Screen Fiend is both a love letter to artistic obsession and string of caution tape around it. Patton describes the ecstatic demands of the arts (in this case, Stand-up and Film) with insight, fond pity, and unfailing humor. This is a book for anyone who strives to be great, or is bored in an airport., Immediate and vital... [ Silver Screen Fiend is] enough to make any reader seek out the many films that made him hibernate in the first place.|9781451673210|, [Oswalt has] a set of synapses like a pinball machine and a prose style to match....Oswalt's writing gives off the hallucinogenic shimmer of the true obsessive, packing all the sharpness and bite of his stand-up., I loved this book. It feels like a great one sided conversation from your funniest friend. It made me feel less alone in the precious hours I read it. But now it's gone and I have nothing., Clever and readable...Oswalt's encyclopedic knowledge and frothing enthusiasm for films (from sleek noir classics, to gory B movies, to cliche-riddled independents,to big empty blockbusters) is relentlessly present, whirringin the background like a projector.
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2014-017626
Dewey Decimal
792.7/6028092 B
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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