Hollywood Jock: 365 Days, Four Screenplays, Three TV Pitches, Two Kids, and One Wife Who's Ready to Pull the Plug
Rob Ryder, . . Harper, $13.95 (290pp) ISBN 978-0-06-079150-6
Although the conceit for Ryder's sloppily entertaining book is to cover one year in his life—at the end of which he was determined to decide whether or not to just quit Hollywood and find a real job—there's no real drama awaiting readers at the end, as it's perfectly clear he'll never leave this life. Ryder's a semijock and gifted scrounger who's been making a living in the nexus of film, journalism and sport since the mid-1970s, experiencing everything from getting whacked with a baseball bat on the set of
Reviewed on: 05/01/2006
Genre: Nonfiction
Other - 304 pages - 978-0-06-200360-7