Full name: With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant

Author: Richard E. Grant Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780879519353 0879519355

First comes Grant's first big break, the starring role in Bruce Robinson's Withnail and I, the cult film that set Grant's career on a path bound for stardom--"I had no notion that, almost without exception, every film offered since would be the result of playing an alcoholic-out-of-work actor." Like Dante's Virgil he guides the reader through the hell of the making of Hudson Hawk. He knows he's an insider when Carrie Fisher reminds him, "You're no longer a tourist, you're one of the attractions." This heady mixture of eating spaghetti with the Coppolas, window-shopping with Sharon Stone, and working with and learning from the best actors and directors in Tinseltown will be irresistible to anyone who loves movies or aspires to be a Hollywood player. Similar books: My Movie Business by John Irving In Spite of Myself by Christopher Plummer My Own Two Feet by Beverly Cleary Then Again by Diane Keaton My Name Escapes Me by Alec Guinness Messages From My Father by Calvin Trillin Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli Myself When Young by Daphne Du Maurier Looking Back by Lois Lowry Life Itself by Roger Ebert Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck The Bill from My Father by Bernard Cooper The Elephant to Hollywood by Michael Caine Kiss Me Like A Stranger by Gene Wilder Traci Lords: Underneath It All by Traci Lords On Writing by Stephen King When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover