The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad

The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
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The hilarious and inspiring story of how a mysterious misfit got past every roadblock in the Hollywood system to achieve success on his own terms: a $6 million cinematic catastrophe called The Room.

Nineteen-year-old Greg Sestero met Tommy Wiseau at an acting school in San Francisco. Wiseauâ€™s scenes were rivetingly wrong, yet Sestero, hypnotized by such uninhibited acting, thought, â€œI have to do a scene with this guy.â€ That impulse changed both of their lives. Wiseau seemed never to have read the rule book on interpersonal relationships (or the instrucÂtions on a bottle of black hair dye), yet he generously offered to put the aspiring actor up in his LA apartÂment. Sesteroâ€™s nascent acting career first sizzled, then fizzled, resulting in Wiseauâ€™s last-second offer to Sestero of costarring with him in The Room, a movie Wiseau wrote and planned to finance, produce, and directâ€”in the parking lot of a Hollywood equipment-rental shop.

Wiseau spent $6 million of his own money on his film, but despite the efforts of the disbelieving (and frequently fired) crew and embarrassed (and freÂquently fired) actors, the movie made no sense. Nevertheless Wiseau rented a Hollywood billboard featuring his alarming headshot and staged a red carpet premiere. The Room made $1800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. One reviewer said that watching The Room was like â€œgetting stabbed in the head.â€

The Disaster Artist is Greg Sesteroâ€™s laugh-out-loud funny account of how Tommy Wiseau defied every law of artistry, business, and friendship to make â€œthe Citizen Kane of bad moviesâ€ (Entertainment Weekly), which is now an international phenomenon, with Wiseau himself beloved as an oddball celebrity. Written with award-winning journalist Tom Bissell, The Disaster Artist is an inspiring tour de force that reads like a page-turning novel, an open-hearted portrait of an enigmatic man who will improbably capture your heart.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781451661194
ReleaseDate 2013-10-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451661194

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781451661194
ReleaseDate	2013-10-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781451661194

The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

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