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Silver screen fiend : learning about life from an addiction to film

Oswalt, Patton 1969- (author.).

Summary: "Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction. It wasn't drugs, alcohol or sex: it was film. After moving to L.A., Oswalt became a huge film buff (or as he calls it, a sprocket fiend), absorbing classics, cult hits, and new releases at the New Beverly Cinema. Silver screen celluloid became Patton's life schoolbook, informing his notion of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships. Set in the nascent days of L.A.'s alternative comedy scene, Oswalt's memoir chronicles his journey from fledgling stand-up comedian to self-assured sitcom actor, with the colorful New Beverly collective and a cast of now-notable young comedians supporting him all along the way"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781451673234
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Physical Description: xi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes filmography (pages 189-222).

Formatted Contents Note:

Movie freaks and sprocket fiends : the New Beverly Cinema, May 20, 1995 -- My first four Night Cafés : Arles, France, September 1888 -- The Largo : Los Angeles, 1996 -- No small actors : Down periscope, 1995 -- Meat and potatoes : Los Angeles, August 1995 -- Overdosing : Los Angeles, October 21-22, 1995 -- You can, unfortunately, go home again : Sterling, Virginia, Thanksgiving 1996 -- The day the clown didn't cry : the Powerhouse Theatre, January 27, 1997 -- Amsterdam : January 7-13, 1998 -- The knave of Queens : March 26-27, 1998 -- Killer Burger and the myth of the Largo : March 4-20, 1999 -- The end of the addiction : Thursday, May 20, 1999, the Vista Theatre -- Whistling in the dark -- The second-to-last Night Café : April 15, 2009.