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Hollywood Causes Cancer: The Tom Green Story
by
Tom Green
“Not a day goes by when I don’t wake up and think, just for a second, usually between taking a leak and brushing my teeth, what the hell happened?”
Eight years ago, Tom Green lived in his parents’ basement in Canada. He spent his time skateboarding, making funny videos with his friends, and dreaming of hosting his own talk show. MTV saw his low-budget public access show and...more
Eight years ago, Tom Green lived in his parents’ basement in Canada. He spent his time skateboarding, making funny videos with his friends, and dreaming of hosting his own talk show. MTV saw his low-budget public access show and...more
Paperback, 272 pages
Published
October 25th 2005
by Three Rivers Press
(first published October 12th 2004)
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I was one of those people that hated Freddy Got Fingered...I actually turned it off at the horse masturbation scene...in saying that I really enjoyed this book as it did give me a new perspective on Tom Green. He seems like a nice guy, a guy I would be proud to call a friend. His perspective on Hollywood was so wonderfully refreshing - I certainly developed a new liking for him. I remember when he first came out I actualy thought he was quite funny in a confrontational quirky way but he lost me ...more
People either love Tom Green or hate him. Regardless of your feelings on the man, you can’t deny the influence he’s had on our culture: Tom Green was the precursor to Jackass and the entire Youtube generation. He was doing stunt videos, street pranks, and homemade gross-out gags before everyone and their kids were uploading them to Youtube. Who knows if we would even have had 2 Girls 1 Cup without Green? Few celebrities have had such an interesting and volatile career path; Green went from the h...more
I'm a huge fan of everything Tom Green has done and am of the mind that he is a brilliant person. This book made me appreciate him even more. Reading about how he got his start on public access television was inspiring, and it was interesting to hear where the ideas for many of the segments on his MTV show came from. After reading his memoir, I got the sense that he is an incredibly resilient and level-headed person who will continue to do innovative things.
Not really sure why Tom Green inspires such hatred in everyone I know. Its not just dislike, it is utter hatred! I happen to think he's quite funny, in a unique, inventive, dumbed-down-Andy Kaufman sort of way. His biography is really a work of the average man, who just happened to ride the MTV rocket of popularity through fame and into obscurity. This is a really good read.
Lauryl
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people who like cheesy celeb tell-alls, or Tom Green
Shelves:
celebrity-biographies,
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My partner, knowing of my secret love of Tom Green, got this book for me on the cheap from the remaindered shelf of our local booksellers. It's always hard to say, when reading an autobiography, how honest the auto-biographer is being, both with his audience and with himself. That said, he may just be a very good liar, but I ended up liking Tom Green as a person as much as I like him as a comedian. The book was surprisingly un-sensational and yet seemed fairly frank. If not spectacularly lit...more
I was hoping for something funnier, but it was still a good read, learning about his early days skateboarding and rapping and how his original show in Canada came to be. I still think "Freddy Got Fingered" is about as funny as anything out there. "I'm 27 years old! I think I can eat a chicken-burger if I want to!"
Made me think of him as really pathetic and sad. His story of things like how drew barrymore ditched him and he didnt do anything about it. Oh well Tom, maybe you need to be a stronger person.
Funniest book ever.
Amy Alexander
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