Part Hollywood how-to, part Frank McCourt-style reflection on emotional neglect and poverty, Becoming Superman is an enveloping look back at a unique career. He’s candid, where he can be, about the hazards - other than executive interference - that can mar a creative endeavor. His accounts of quitting staff jobs when his bosses demanded changes that offended his sense of integrity make for juicy reading. Straczynski dishes more freely about his TV years than his film career. Straczynski revisits his eclectic resume in breezy, conversational prose. J Michael Straczynski discusses his memoir, 'Becoming Superman', at Politics and Prose.Straczynski may be best known as the creator of the. Michael Straczynski - Forlag: HarperVoyager - ISBN-13: 9780062857842. If this 'What Would Kal-El Do?' philosophy occasionally makes our narrator come off as self-righteous, let us just be glad that he chose to emulate a virtuous (if imaginary) outsider instead of the violent and cruel adults who populated his most impressionable years. Becoming Superman: My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood (bog, engelsk) - Forfatter: J. The book leavens the episodic structure of most autobiographies by threading a family mystery through Straczynski’s account of his horrific upbringing and his escape into superheroes and science fiction.
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