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This is a good book about a bad movie, in which Greg Sestero tells his story. He was a handsome young man just out of High school. He manages to open a few doors in modeling and acting, but building a career still proves to be difficult in the sea of Hollywood. In a San Francisco acting class, he meets the extraordinary personality Tommy Wiseau, a man of both indeterminate age and nationality, who also has a pool of mysteriously gained resources from which he makes his dream project, the now legendary cinematic opus known as "The Room". Tommy is by turns sweet, naïve bold,lonely, narcissistic, paranoid and a little disturbing at times, but he manages, with Greg's invaluable help, to make his own movie his own way, thoroughly confounding everyone in the process. The movie is a romantic triangle/tragedy, but it has become a cult phenomenon in the vein of Rocky Horror, with fans finding humor in the films' inconsistencies, while the movie also has an odd "Ed Wood"-like charm about it, and it seems to exist in its own dream-like,strangely wrought world. The film was recently given the Rifftrax treatment, to hilarious result . The book is co-written by magazine writer Tom Bissell, and it is an extremely insightful, funny, well-written tale of an unusual friendship between these two very different men in LA, and it tells the story of the making of what has been celebrated as one of the worst movies ever made. At one point, Greg asks, "if art is expression, can it fail?" a truly worthy question indeed.Read full review
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Super funny, heartwarming and inspiring. Tommy Wiseau made his dreams come true. Greg had a great recap of his friendship with Tommy and he making of the ro. If you’re an artist, filmmaker or dreamer than this book is for you!
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Ever heard about The Room, movie, this is how it came to become the worst movie youll ever love!
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If you love The Room, this book is for you. Great quality and was at my door quickly.
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