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Read [Hal Needham Book] * Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life Online ^ PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life I was a sharecropper's son from the hills of Arkansas who became a Hollywood stuntman. Let me tell you a few stories. I continually risked my life but that was the career I chose. 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. When you're on fire you don't dare breathe because if you do, you'll suck those flames right down yo
| Title | : | Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.63 (881 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316078999 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-24 |
| Language | : | English |
Given the exciting and dangerous jobs he performed wrangling horses, staging fights, doing "high falls," and crashing cars, Needham has plenty of material, and he writes like a guy telling stories at a bar, laying out one anecdote after another about 1960s and '70s directors and big-time actors. Indeed, Needham's personal life—bootlegging alcohol (he grew up in Arkansas), racing a car cross-country—has informed his work as both stuntman and director of such movies as Smokey and the Bandit, Stroker Ace, Cannonball Run, and Hooper. From Publishers Weekly Needham worked more than 40 years in Hollywood as a stuntman who filled in for John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Dustin Hoffman, and Burt Reynolds. Of course, as a thrice married, hard-living stuntman who was not only Reynolds's stunt-double but also his best friend, Needham has his share of fun and not-so-dirty little
Great read Any movie fan needs to read this to really see how movies were filmed before the computer and green screen. Five Stars Helen Crow A fun look at a special person.. Chet Freegard said Five Stars. Excellent book!
Hal Needham's career has included work on 4,500 television episodes and 310 feature films. He set trends in movies (the first director to show outtakes during end credits) and NASCAR (the first team owner to use telemetry technology). . He directed 10 features, including the classics Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper, and TheCannonball Run. Hal set Guinness World Records and was the financier and owner of the Budweiser Ro
I was a sharecropper's son from the hills of Arkansas who became a Hollywood stuntman. Let me tell you a few stories. I continually risked my life but that was the career I chose. 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. When you're on fire you don't dare breathe because if you do, you'll suck those flames right down your throat. 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 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 teethI hung upside down by my ankles under a bi-plane in The Spirit of St. That journey was a to
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