Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends: My Life (repost)
Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends: My Life By John Leguizamo
Publisher: H a r p e r 2006 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 006052071X | PDF | 4 MB
Publisher: H a r p e r 2006 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 006052071X | PDF | 4 MB
In this brash autobiography, comic Leguizamo recalls a life lived "on the fine line between acting and acting out." Readers who know his celebrated one-man shows, Mambo Mouth and Spic-O-Rama among them, will recognize some of the same people and topics: the doting mom, authoritarian father, brother Serge and the author's perpetually adolescent fascination with sex. Familiar, too, are the chameleonlike shifts of tone and theme— Leguizamo's trickster charm and outspoken ethnic pride can morph to candid yet searing takes on money, fame and the acting life. Mostly, Leguizamo tracks his maturation and unlikely rise from a smart-ass acting tyro born in Colombia and raised in Queens, N.Y., to an award-winning actor, director and family man. As he puts it: "I'm a horrible example of how to have a successful career."