The Billy Bob Tapes
A Cave Full of Ghosts
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · February 19, 2013
There is—and could only ever be—one Billy Bob Thornton: actor, musician, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and accidental Hollywood badass.
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- Who it’s for
- A star’s life stories meet philosophical rants, with a close friend adding a distinctly unconventional frame.
- Themes
- Celebrity life story, Southern upbringing, Pop culture
- Genres
- Lives in Entertainment, Personal Memoirs, Film & Cinema
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There is—and could only ever be—one Billy Bob Thornton: actor, musician, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and accidental Hollywood badass. In The Billy Bob Tapes, he leads us into his Cave Full of Ghosts, spinning colorful tales of his modest (to say the least) Southern upbringing, his bizarre phobias (komoda dragons?), his life, his loves (including his marriage to fellow Oscar winner Angelina Jolie), and, of course, his movie career.
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Best of all, he’s feeding these truly incredible stories and righteous philosophical rants through his close friend, Kinky Friedman—legendary country music star, bestselling author, would-be politician, and all-around bon vivant. Put these two iconoclasts together and you get a star’s story that’s actually an insightful pop culture manifesto—a hybrid offspring of Born Standing Up with Sh*t My Dad Says.
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A star’s life stories meet philosophical rants, with a close friend adding a distinctly unconventional frame.
Come here for
- Southern upbringing, phobias, loves, and movie-career stories
- A pop-culture-minded memoir with comic bite
Expect
- Colorful tales and righteous philosophical rants
- Two iconoclasts shaping an offbeat celebrity story
Where it sits
| Lives in Entertainment | 89% |
|---|---|
| Film & Cinema | 35% |
| Personal Memoirs | 19% |
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Publisher categories
- Lives in Entertainment
- Lives in History
- Political Lives
- Sports Lives
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- Personal Memoirs
- Food World Lives
- Jewish Lives
- Film Reference
- Authors
- Billy Bob Thornton, Kinky Friedman
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- February 19, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Celebrity life story · Southern upbringing · Pop culture
- Reading lane
- Lives in Entertainment