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Cheech is not my real name : but don't call me Chong! / Cheech Marin with John Hassan.
Author
Marin, Cheech
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Format
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Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
Description
viii, 260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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PN2287.M483 A3 2017
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Comedians
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United States
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Biography
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Motion picture actors and actresses
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United States
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Biography
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Hispanic American motion picture actors and actresses
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Biography
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Marin, Cheech
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Author
Hassan, John
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Autobiographies
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Summary note
"A memoir by the counterculture legend discusses how he formed one of the most successful comedy duos of all time, became a representative of the recreational drug movement, forged a successful solo career, and amassed a collection of renowned Chicano art, "--NoveList.
Cheech Marin writes candidly about growing up as a wisecracking kid in south central LA, resisting the draft, and his chance meeting with Tommy Chong--and how they formed one of the most successful comedy acts of all time, breaking up, reuniting, and still performing together to this day. Cheech the storyteller takes the reader on a wild ride along his strange and wonderful path to fame that saw the son of a policeman become the face of the recreational drug movement. He describes his early artistic aspirations to become a potter, his brief stint as a magazine reporter when he interviewed Little Richard, and his surreal and unlikely ascent to the top of the comedy world. Cheech also details how his passion for Chicano art led him to assemble the world's finest private collection, and how he bested the likes of Anderson Cooper to win Celebrity Jeopardy! Written with his trademark comedic flair and replete with colorful characters both famous and obscure, this is a fresh, funny, and unstintingly honest account of an incredible life and career that represents a "new high" in autobiography.--From book jacket.
Contents
What are you?
Up on the rooftop
In the dead of night
A change of scenery
Father Marin?
A Hard Day's Night
What else have they been lying about?
A cross-fire hurricane
A big day of castrating
Meeting Tommy Chong
We want tits!
Do you have a nickname?
One small problem
What happened to the leopard you had last night?
Bank error in your favor
Who's Lou Adler?
Dave's not here
Hitting the road
If you could please not do that dog bit
In and out of dry dock
Weeniegate
Hooray for Hollywood
Up in smoke
A lesson in show business
You're slouching
You're into video, I'm into film
Born in East L.A.
Tito, Banzai, and Ramone
Ladies and gentlemen, Chet Pussy!!
Louie, Alex, and me
Tin Cup
Nash Bridges
The late Henry Moss
Chicano art
The night Kate Middleton asked me to dance
Endings, reunions, and new beginnings.
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ISBN
9781455592340 ((hardcover))
145559234X ((hardcover))
LCCN
2016030657
OCLC
953598682
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