Why the long face? : the adventures of an truly independent actor / Craig Chester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chester, Craig, 1965-

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chester, Craig, 1965-.

Chester, Craig.

Actors--United States--Biography.

Actors.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 261 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2003.

Summary:

"If You Are a Fan of David Sedaris or Augusten Burroughs you're going to love Craig Chester. With a laugh on nearly every page, Chester encapsulates his life growing up in the Bible Belt to being crowned the king of independent cinema into seventeen pitch-perfect comic essays that -- like it or not -- are all real experiences from his life. If you're embarrassed to laugh out loud in public, read this book at home. Includes trips in a conversion van with a backseat Porta Potti! Speaking in tongues! Apocalypse watching with buckets of KFC! S*!%-throwing monkeys! Pureed Thanksgiving dinner! Diana Ross! Alien abduction! And a healthy dose of throwing up! Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

ISBN:

0312287135

9780312287139

OCLC:

50643742

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