Title: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Autobiography [Signed By Author]
Publisher: Miramax Books Hyperion, NY
Publication Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0786888083
ISBN 13: 9780786888085
Binding: Paperback
Illustrator: B/W Illus
Edition: 1st
Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed By Author

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The creator of The Gong Show, The Dating Game, and other television game shows describes his career and shares a tongue-in-cheek glimpse of his personal life. Reprint. 75,000 first printing. (A Miramax film, releasing December 2002, starring Sam Rockwell, Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, & Drew Barrymore) (Biography)

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Originally published in 1982 but out-of-print for years, '70s television icon Barris's forgotten autobiography is being reissued to coincide with the December release of a major film adaptation. After two decades of relative obscurity, Barris's memoir may finally find an eager audience. Readers will probably best remember Barris as the creator and host of The Gong Show, but his resume also includes such classic shows as The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game, as well as a hit song, "Palisades Park," and a New York Times bestselling book, You and Me Babe (1970). What will shock readers, however, is Barris's claim that, throughout his successful TV career, he was leading a double life as a decorated CIA assassin. While supposedly "scouting locations" to send his winning game show contestants, Barris was actually traveling to exotic locales to knock off America's Cold War foes. Or so he'd have readers believe. While far-fetched, the tension-filled scenes of Barris's supposed CIA activities provide an ingenious counterbalance to the story of his meandering personal life, the snarling critics who attacked Barris for dragging television into the gutter and hilarious recollections of how wholesome contestants would become inexplicably filthy once on the set of The Dating Game. Even though Barris's reputation as a wacky TV show host doomed this literary venture when it was originally published, it is in fact a remarkably well-crafted and entertaining book, both unflinchingly personal and at times laugh-out-loud funny. Twenty years later, it reads like a classic.
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