With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant

The Overlook Press, 1998-01-31. hardcover. Good/Good. 4x0x7. The Overlook Press [Published Date: 1998]. Hardcover, 337 pp. First US edition, (with full number line). Good+ in good+ dust jacket. Black Paper over Boards with black cloth and silver lettering on spine. Bumping and creasing to bottom edge of back cover and light scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Previous owner's gift inscription on half-title page. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing to jacket as well. Price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Includes an 8 page inset with black and white photos. [From front jacket flap] Ten years after its release, Withnail and I is a certified cult film, with the debauched and despairing character of Withnail still a beacon of inspiration to disaffected youth. Hollywood beckoned the film's star, Richard E. Grant, and he went. With Nails is Grant's brilliantly idiosyncratic, witty, and revealing account of the film business and life among its stars. From visiting sex shops in Paris with Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant to answering the Spice Girls' probing questions about his sex life during downtime on the set of Spice World to working with Hollywood's hottest directors - Robert Altman in The Player and Pret a Porter, Francis Ford Coppola in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Martin Scorsese in The Age of Innocence - Richard E. Grant has documented what it's like to Become a Film Star with a frank and funny intelligence. First comes Grant's first big break, the starring role in Bruce Robinson's Withnail and I, the cult film that set Grant's career on a path bound for stardom - "I had no notion that, almost without exception, every film offered since would be the result of playing an alcoholic out-of-work actor." Like Dante's Virgil he guides the reader through the Hell of the making of Hudson Hawk. He knows he's an insider when Carrie Fisher reminds him, "You're no longer a tourist, you're one of the attractions." This heady mixture of eating spaghetti with the Coppolas, window shopping with Sharon Stone and working with and learning from the best actors and directors in Tinseltown will be irresistible to anyone who loves movies or aspires to be a Hollywood player.