Table of Contents
Foreword Alec Baldwin ix
Introduction xiii
Chapter 1 A Different Kind of Fame 1
Chapter 2 Growing Accustomed to My Face 9
Chapter 3 Tales of the California Reaches 15
Chapter 4 To Be or Not to Be an Actor 23
Chapter 5 Shakespeare in the Park with Joe 30
Chapter 6 Hello to All That 34
Chapter 7 There and Back Again 37
Chapter 8 The Cauldron Bubbles 41
Chapter 9 Blount Trauma 48
Chapter 10 We Soared, in New Haven 52
Chapter 11 On the Road 55
Chapter 12 Caught in a Catch-22 63
Chapter 13 How Can You Catch the Sparrow? 66
Chapter 14 Once Upon a Time in the West 73
Chapter 15 The Treasure of John Huston 81
Chapter 16 Outrageous Fortune Met by Slings and Arrows 92
Chapter 17 One Fell Out of the Cuckoo's Nest 104
Chapter 18 Career Careening, Caribe Capsizes 109
Chapter 19 The European inside Me 115
Chapter 20 You Never Forget the Taste of Human Flesh 120
Chapter 21 From the Shadows 124
Chapter 22 A Memorable High 128
Chapter 23 The Long Ride 133
Chapter 24 The Butterfly Effect 137
Chapter 25 Just Wear the Hat, Kid 142
Chapter 26 I, Mike Hammer 148
Chapter 27 A Soul in Pain 158
Chapter 28 Meet the Press 167
Chapter 29 Family Guy 172
Chapter 30 The Bell Never Tolls for Mike Hammer 179
Chapter 31 Speak the Speech 185
Chapter 32 Thine Own Self 195
Chapter 33 The Knack 205
Chapter 34 Daddy Dearest 212
Chapter 35 Hitting My Stride 220
Chapter 36 The Readiness Is All 231
Curtain Call: The Play's the Thing 239
Acknowledgments 249
Index 252
About the Author 255
