{"id":6744,"date":"2011-10-08T14:48:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T18:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=6744"},"modified":"2015-10-02T15:06:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T20:06:20","slug":"with-nails-1996-richard-e-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/6744","title":{"rendered":"With Nails (1996, Richard E. Grant)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picked this up at Strand, opened to a random page in The Player<\/em> chapter and decided I need it – then thought I’d better watch Withnail & I<\/a><\/em> before reading. Hilarious, fun book about Richard’s travails acting in Withnail & I<\/em>, Warlock<\/em>, Henry and June<\/em>, LA Stories<\/em>, Hudson Hawk<\/em>, The Player<\/a><\/em>, Bram Stoker’s Dracula<\/em>, The Age of Innocence<\/a><\/em> and Ready to Wear<\/em>, with paperback-edition epilogue bits on Portrait of a Lady<\/em>, Twelfth Night<\/em>, The Serpent’s Kiss<\/em> and Spice World<\/em>. A couple mentions of How to Get Ahead in Advertising<\/a><\/em> (having already sketched out the process of working with Bruce Robinson in the Withnail<\/em> chapter, he probably wanted to get on to the Hollywood stuff), a few sentences on Mountains of the Moon<\/a><\/em> (its producer is insanely wealthy) and no mention at all of Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life<\/a><\/em>. Since I never read gossipy behind-the-scenes Hollywood tales it was full of surprises for me – but Grant’s writing and humor is always the main attraction.<\/p>\n

Lately Grant has written\/directed a movie called Wah-Wah<\/em> and written a diary about that – something to look forward to. Oooh and looks like there’s a novel called “By Design,” which a reviewer says is “an attempt to fictionalize all those great Hollywood experiences & stories that for legal reasons he couldn’t include” in the diaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Picked this up at Strand, opened to a random page in The Player chapter and decided I need it – then thought I’d better watch Withnail & I before reading. Hilarious, fun book about Richard’s travails acting in Withnail & I, Warlock, Henry and June, LA Stories, Hudson Hawk, The Player, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,1985,91,1388],"class_list":["post-6744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-book","tag-filmmaking","tag-richard-e-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6744"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10345,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions\/10345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}