If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor

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Anecdote rich and often funny, this account covers Bruce's career up until 2001, from his early years making Super 8 shorts with Sam Raimi and Robert Taipert, through the arduous but ultimately career launching production of The Evil Dead and on through the occasional ups and frequent downs of life as a member of 'the Hollywood lower-middle class'. In reality, I had ditched Don’s real sock as I entered the bathroom and flushed a strip of white toilet paper (preplaced) into the septic tank. The story of someone who achieved his goals by showing up and making the effort, and somehow managed to remember how to enjoy the journey itself. but maybe the bumps in the road were things that helped Campbell keep his ego in check and helped him to be the wise and compassionate man that he is.

Books you loan, books you borrow, shelves of books you scan for red flags and common ground the first time you’re invited in. It's an entertaining read detailing the exploits of the man whom you'd think would be a lot richer and more famous than he actually appears to be. That became obvious to me one school morning as I leaned down to buckle up my rain boots at the top of the stairs.The difference between us was fundamental: I’d watch Combat and think, Gee, it would be fun to be an actor like that guy. People always ask me how I got it and I’ve told them everything from One dark night in Bombay, to A scuffle with bad, bad, Leroy Brown.

It's has humor and great behind-the-scenes stories of the filming of some of my favorite movies and TV series.

But in just a few short years a baseline awareness of The Evil Dead—and, by extension, Bruce Campbell—would be all but taken for granted; not because Bruce Campbell necessarily moved into the mainstream, but because the mainstream moved closer to him. And, after you finish the first memoir, move on to Campbell’s subsequent books — How To Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way, Hail to the Chin, and The Cool Side of My Pillow. A book leaves our collection of over seven million titles and begins a new chapter every two seconds, enabling more goods to be reused. If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor is a 2002 autobiography written by Bruce Campbell. I wouldn’t have been surprised if Don invented a fine for pretending to flush socks down the toilet.

From the blurbs on the back of the book, it will become apparent that Campbell has a good sense of his fanbase and wants to communicate with both the avid reader and the not-so avid.Lee Cronin: "Bruce came over to Ireland when we were working on the sound and I asked him if he would do this teeny, tiny, little cameo for me. The first festival was originally from August 21 to 25, 2014, presented by Wizard World, as part of the Chicago Comicon.