Tag archieven: Amerikaanse acteur

Film, filmboek, Televisie, Verenigde Staten

Jaleel White – Growing Up Urkel

Jaleel White Growing Up Urkel review, recensie en informatie over de memoir van de Amerikaanse acteur. Op 19 november 2024 verschijnt bij Simon & Schuster het boek van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige acteur Jaleel White. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de memoir, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Jaleel White Growing Up Urkel review, recensie en informatie

  • “Comedically gifted, crazy acting chops, wonderfully dressed, weirdly handsome, beyond perfect posture, and a crossover that’s guaranteed to put your ass in the blender. What? Oh, I thought this blurb was about me. That’s okay, Jaleel is pretty awesome too.” (Adam Sandler)

Jaleel White Growing Up Urkel

Growing Up Urkel

  • Auteur: Jaleel White (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir, filmboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 19 november 2024
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek en memoir van acteur Jaleel White

An incisive and insightful memoir by one of the most beloved icons of nineties television Jaleel White, the actor who portrayed Steve Urkel on the hit sitcom Family Matters.

At the tender age of twelve, Jaleel White auditioned for the role of Steve Urkel, the socially inept genius, who was in love with his next-door neighbor, Laura.

Though Steve Urkel was intended to be in only one episode, Jaleel’s indelible performance catapulted Urkel into the pantheon of American pop culture. But success can cost as much as it pays. After nine years on the popular sitcom Family Matters, Jaleel is twenty-one, a UCLA undergrad, and adjusting to a world and industry that sees him as the nasally nerd in high water pants, suspenders, and coke bottle glasses.

In this wise and witty memoir, Growing Up Urkel takes you on a memorable journey through the peaks, valleys, and plateaus of fame and fortune.

Jaleel White is born on 27 November 1976 in Pasadena, California. He is an actor, producer, and screenwriter most known for his iconic role as Steve Urkel on the sitcom Family Matters. White has also starred in Big Fat Liar, Sonic the Hedgehog, Grown Ups, and Scooby Doo. White’s top guest appearances include Boston Legal, Dreamgirls, House, and most recently starred in the Netflix’s Hustle, starring Adam Sandler. In April of 2021, he launched a successful cannabis line called itsPurpl.

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Al Pacino – Sonny Boy

Al Pacino Sonny Boy recensie, review en informatie over de memoir van de beroemde Amerikaanse acteur. Op 15 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Penguin Century de memoir en autobiografie van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige filmacteur Al Pacino. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Wanneer de Nederlandse vertaling van het boek van Al Pacino verschijnt is nog niet bekend.

Al Pacino Sonny Boy recensie, review en informatie

  • “As Michael in The Godfather, Pacino was everything I wanted that character to be on screen. I couldn’t believe it. It was, in my eyes, a perfect performance, a work of art.” (Mario Puzzo, writer of The Godfather)
  • “Charming, hilarious, a nonstop talker. There is an aspect of him that is like a lost orphan, like this kind of crazy idiot savant.” (Diane Keaton, Amerikaanse actrice)

Al Pacino Sonny Boy

Sonny Boy

  • Auteur: Al Pacino (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir, filmboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Verschijnt: 15 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de memoir van Al Pacino

To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova.

He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies?The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon?that were not just successes, but landmarks in the history of film. In reality, Pacino was in his mid-thirties by then, and had already lived several lives.

Growing up in New York City’s South Bronx and raised by a loving but mentally unwell mother, Pacino worked odd jobs to support himself. But, in good times and bad, in poverty and in wealth and in poverty again, through pain and joy, acting was his lifeline, its community his tribe.

Exploring his iconic roles, essential collaborations, and important relationships, as well as the ever-present struggle between creativity and commerce, Sonny Boy is the revelatory account of an incredible life.

This is the memoir of a man who has nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide.

Actor and director Al Pacino (25 April 1945, New York City) is a unique and enduring figure in the world of American stage and film. He grew up in New York City’s South Bronx, attended the School of Performing Art, and studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio with Charles Laughton and the Actors Studio with mentor Lee Strasberg.

He has been nominated for the Academy Award nine times, for movies including The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, The Godfather Part II, and The Irishman, and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1992 for Scent of a Woman. He has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award nineteen times, and won four, and has been nominated for three Tonys and won two.

Pacino has been awarded the Kennedy Center Honor, the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, the National Merit of Arts from President Obama, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures.

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Tom Selleck – You Never Know

Tom Selleck You Never Know memor recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van het boekvan de Amerikaanse acteur, vooral bekend van zijn rol als Magnum P.I in de gelijknamige tv-serie. Op 9 mei 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij HarperCollins de autobiografie van acteur Tom Selleck die hij samen met Ellis Henican schreef. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteurs en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Tom Selleck You Never Know recensie

Op 9 mei 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij HarperCollins, You Never Know, de memoir van de Amerikaanse acteur Tom Selleck. Hij schreef het boek samen met Ellis Hanican.

Tom Selleck You Never Know

You Never Know

  • Auteurs: Tom Selleck, Ellis Henican (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: autobiografie, memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: HarperCollins
  • Verschijnt: 9 mei 2024
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $29.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de memoir van acteur Tom Selleck

There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own iconoclastic and joyful way.

Frank, funny and open-hearted, You Never Know is an intimate memoir from a beloved actor, the story of a remarkable life and thoroughly accidental career. Journey to the top in Hollywood, learn of his mistakes and his well-earned success. Selleck clears up an armload of misconceptions and shares never-told stories. His rambunctious California childhood. His clueless arrival as a good-looking college jock in Hollywood (from the Dating Game to the Fox New Talent Program to co-starring with Mae West). What it was like to emerge as a mega-star in his mid-thirties and remain so for decades to come, an actor whose ease on screen connected with audiences worldwide, while redefining the clichés of manhood.

In You Never Know, Selleck recounts his personal friendships with a vivid army of A-listers, everyone from Frank Sinatra to Carol Burnett to Sam Elliott, paying special tribute to his mentor James Garner of The Rockford Files, who believed, like Selleck, that TV protagonists are far more interesting when they have rough edges. He tips his hat to the American western and the scruffy band of actors, directors and other ruffians who helped define that classic genre, where Selleck has repeatedly found a happy home. Magnum fans will be fascinated to learn how Selleck put his career on the line to make Thomas Magnum a more imperfect hero and explains why he walked away from a show that could easily have gone on for years longer.

Hollywood is never easy, even for stars who make it look that way. Selleck explains how he’s struggled to balance his personal and professional lives, frequently adjusting his career to protect his family’s privacy and normalcy. His journey offers a truly fresh perspective on a changing industry and a changing world. Beneath all the charm, talent, and self-deprecating humor, this memoir reveals an American icon who reached remarkable heights through authenticity.

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