The Billy Bob tapes : a cave full of ghosts

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Label

The Billy Bob tapes : a cave full of ghosts

Title remainder

a cave full of ghosts

Statement of responsibility

Billy Bob Thornton ; with Kinky Friedman

Creator

• Thornton, Billy Bob

Contributor

• Friedman, Kinky

Subject

• Celebrities -- United States -- Biography
• Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography
• Thornton, Billy Bob
• Autobiographies

Genre

• Biography
• Autobiographies

Language

eng

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

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

• 791.4302/8092
• B
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction