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The Billy Bob tapes : a cave full of ghosts / Billy Bob Thornton ; with Kinky Friedman.

A cave full of ghosts. (other title)
Thornton, Billy Bob. (Author). Friedman, Kinky. (Added Author).

Summary:

Raised in small-town Arkansas, Billy Bob Thornton grew up amid a rich storytelling tradition. See, the South is just different than other places. . . . You can feel the ghosts there. As a kid, he would sit on the porch listening to his family or some old man down the road spinning yarns about colorful neighbors. These stories didn't have to be made up. The characters were already there, so the stories just came out of the characters we knew. Thus was borne his Oscar?-winning masterpiece Sling Blade and now The Billy Bob Tapes--a narrative based on late-night conversations with Kinky Friedman and other friends who gathered 'round to hear Billy mine a cave full of ghosts. Billy's long career in Hollywood yields stories of inspired collaborations and failed ones, true friendships with other actors and musicians, and good friends gone too soon. In The Billy Bob Tapes, he reflects on the critics, the culture around fame, and the challenges of conveying an artistic vision in film. Most striking is Billy's clear-eyed perspective about the magic of entertainment, and how we perceive it in a rapidly changing world. With passion, unvarnished honesty, wry humor, and a little help from friends Angelina Jolie, Robert Duvall, Dwight Yoakam, Tom Epperson, and Daniel Lanois, Billy Bob finally talks.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0062101773
  • ISBN: 9780062101778
  • ISBN: 9780062101785
  • Physical Description: xvi, 272 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : William Morrow, [2012]
Subject:
Thornton, Billy Bob.
Celebrities > United States > Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography.
Genre:
Autobiographies.

Available copies

  • 9 of 9 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

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