Stuntman: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life Review

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Stuntman: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life ReviewThis is the biography of the "Father" of the modern stuntman, Hal Needham. Hal leads you from his impoverished childhood as the step-son of a hardworking Arkansas sharecropper, and son of a depression era hardworking, non-complaining Mother... through his almost mythical rise to the top of the Hollywood stuntman empire. Along the way, more Hollywood big star names are dropped than you would hear by watching "Entertainment Tonight" for a week. Additionally you will learn the inside "tricks" and dare devil approaches to movie's magic stunts. **BUT-FIRST**... in a surprisingly unique beginning to this never dull, even for a minute story... when the introduction is presented exactly like the "coming-attractions" or "previews" when you watch a movie. The first nine pages are just enough name dropping and action teases to make you "run" at full speed into the rest of the book.
The story traces Hal's less than humble beginnings in Arkansas to his less than stellar school education which ended in the ninth grade. Hal volunteered for the armed services during the Korean War and later becomes a tree climber... which without knowing it got him ready to change the world of Hollywood stunts. From stuntman to stunt doubles for everyone from Richard Boone in his heyday as Paladin in "Have Gun Will Travel" to John Wayne. (Whom Hal says was his favorite actor to work with of all time. "THE DUKE, DUKE WAS DEDICATED. HE KNEW EVERY JOB ON THE SET AND COULD DO MOST OF THEM. HE WASN'T AFRAID TO GET HIS HANDS DIRTY. HE ALWAYS LOOKED OUT FOR HIS CREW AND TREATED PEOPLE WITH RESPECT. BUT HE ALSO KNEW ABOUT HARD WORK AND WASN'T AFRAID TO TELL SOMEONE THE TRUTH IF HE FELT THEY WEREN'T PUTTING FORTH ENOUGH EFFORT.") And yet Hal had the cajones to offer a suggestion to Wayne on how to throw a punch in a fight scene early in Hal's career.
Needham shares some of his secrets (Along with being a little insane.) in how stunts that include but are not limited to: walking and hanging on a plane's wings... jumping off buildings before air bags were invented (Which of course he assisted in... and not just the ones stuntmen landed on... but in being the first human guinea pig in a car crash test of air bags.)... controlling a stampede of over 2,000 horses... building and driving rocket powered cars... which led to him going over 600 miles per hour... and in him financing the first land vehicle to break the sound barrier (739.666 mph)... doing the research that led to the longest human drop from a helicopter in history... taking filmed car crashes to a whole new level... which helped create the whole large scale product placement explosion such as on "Smokey And The Bandit II" which... did I mention he directed along with "Smokey And The Bandit"... "Hooper"... and "The Cannonball Run"... among others... BUT getting back to product placement in "Smokey And The Bandit II"... required "TEN TRANS AMS AND FIFTY-FIVE BONNEVILLES "(FIVE FOR JACKIE GLEASON AND FIFTY FOR GLEASON'S CANADIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT BUDDIES.)...
And along this entire fuel injected sojourn... enough *ADULT-COCKTAILS* are consumed to drench the thirst of the Russian Army. Hal never met a job or a stunt that he not only thought he could perform... but he never met one that he didn't feel he could perform better than anyone had before. Along the way Needham somehow found the time for multiple marriages and redefining aspects of NASCAR... as well as breaking his back twice and breaking fifty-six bones. But as you can imagine... a stuntman doesn't call in sick very often... and playing hurt is part of the unwritten code. As great as this rollicking raconteur's stories are... you'll find yourself hungering for more!
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