Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way

First, if Bruce Campbell is reading this - man, you are a God!!! Not in the "We want to bow down and chant endless prayers." way but in the "If I made a living in Hollywood - I would want to do it just like you.". Yes, you are God-like in that respect. Bruce Campbell is not just a "B List" actor. Bruce Campbell is the King of "B List" Actors. Yes, that is a compliment. I would kill to get a signed copy of any one of his books.I read this book on my Kindle because after all "It's the coming thing Socrates." to abuse a Brisco County Jr. line. Back to the topic. This book is everything you expect from Campbell before cracking the cover. It is just plain fun to read. I suspect that was all he was really shooting for. He wanted the reader to have fun. Likewise, I suspect that is a metaphor for his career. I get the impression from his books as well as his roles that Bruce Campbell sees no point in doing anything he does not enjoy. These books and his acting roles are all evidence of that. This book is no departure from that goal. Campbell is talented enough as a writer to pen a New York Best Seller. Someday he might - but I suspect he will only do it once realizing the book is not enough fun for him or the reader. Campbell is talented enough as an actor to take on serious "A List" roles and put an Oscar or 2 on his mantle. I suspect he will someday and afterwards he will look back on "Army of Darkness" and "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr." as his defining roles because they were FUN to make and fun to watch.I would like to depart a bit and comment on something he wrote in "If Chins Could Kill". There was a chapter on the making of Brisco County Jr.. In it he says ,and I am paraphrasing, that there comes a point when the ratings are slipping and the suits cannot put their fingers on "why" the ratings are slipping. I can answer that and I would take this to the bank. Brisco County Jr. was one of Campbells more endearing roles. The show as a winner. The show lost some of it's less committed fans when the SciFi aspect of the show was removed. The orbs were gone, cripplingly attractive nude time traveling babes stopped appearing, and arch-villain from the future - Bly was reduced to a pile of ash. The show slipped after that. A comedy cowboy show with Scifi appeal, Elvis impersonators as local Sheriffs that feature Bruce Cambell cannot help but be a hit and it was. But the suits and the writers on the West Coast always screw up a good thing by trying to reengineer a success. They did it to Brisco just like they did it to Cheers and countless other successful shows. They take a winning formula and screw it up everytime. They are so diferentiated mentally from the typical American viewer that they are oblivious to the obvious answers when trying to decide where they went wrong. Make no mistake Bruce - they screwed up your show and they owe you big time. Hell they owe the fans too. You have had great roles - but Brisco was your most endearing role to date. My kid was 8 when the show was cancelled. We watched it together and we loved it. Brisco was a hero to my kid in the way George Reeves (from the old Superman TV Show) was a hero to me when I was his age and I was totally cool with that. And I loved the pure entertainment factor not to mention Kelly Rutherford was Hot! That show would still be on if the execs and writers possessed a small amount of common sense and connection to the American public.As for the book - you will not split your sides laughing. It's not that kind of book. But you will continuously chuckle and you will not want to put it down. This book is written so vividly and in such a way that you find yourself wondering if many of the scenarios did not actually happen to Campbell at some point in his career. Then you dismiss them saying, "Naaaah, couldn't have happened. It's just to absurd." Then you remember that Campbell is talking about Hollywood where the absurd commonplace. In summation - Just read the bloody book!!! You will love it!!! It will never be read by Oprah and her gaggle of overpriveleged housefraus but then again, who cares what she thinks? Steadman can't even stand her anymore. I've read it. It was a really fun read on the plane from Dubai to Atlanta. I woke a few people up giggling a few times. So I think I sold a few copies for Campbell by intriguing the people watching me try to hold back a laugh a few times. You will love the book. Go for it.Now I will resume my goal of getting Brisco County Jr back on the air where it belongs and acquiring an autographed copy of this or any of Campbells other books. If I get that show back on the air Campbell has to promise me a walk-on part in at least 2 episodes. Deal? C'mon Campbell - don't pretend you don't read these reviews. Is it a deal?

Like many other reviewers I enjoyed Bruce Campbells' Confessions of a B Movie Actor. However this book is preposterous. I like Bruce because he doesn't seem all that into hollywood stardom, but when you read this book you get the sense that he really would love to be some big hollywood star. He has concocted this silly fantasy that he is acting in a A level movie production. He names a list of big name celebrities who are in the movie or auditioned for the movie. But he doth protest too much that everybody on the A level he asociates with this book considers him a B movie actor. He lets the reader know that he is just an actor trying to do a good job and as the story unfolds we learn that his, aw shucks, B movie experiences really help the creative process and breath new life into Richard Gere's and Mike Nichol's carreer as well as up the game of the A level film he is involved with. His writing style is okay and it's a fast read. He doesn't waste time describing any details of the settings he places himself in. Unfortunately many of the characters are just cultural stereotypes from a previous generation. I wish he would have tried harder. The comedy is mildly amusing. The situations are contrived. When he writes about fans and fellow actors who are lower than him on the totem pole you get the sense he thinks he is superior. I don't know if this is for comedic effect or if Bruce Campbell is a prick. I get the feeling that he enjoys others failing. Oh well, I still enjoy his acting although I am a little less thrilled with the man himself. I know this is just a work of fiction. But what is going on in his head that he thinks this is interesting?

Wonderful book by the greatest living B-movie icon. Anyone who says this book isn't funny is probably a lizard person from the Moon (or least working for those nefarious aliens). The chapter where Bruce takes Richard Gere out to teach Gere how to pick up women? That chapter alone is worth the cost of the entire book.

An outstanding book featuring hilarious hollywood anecdotes, some of which may actually be true. There is zero information on making love in it, though, so if you're too stupid to realise that the title is a joke then you may well be disappointed. This is not the Ash Williams version of the Kama Sutra, sadly. Perhaps it's bad to compare Bruce Campbell the real person to Ash Williams but, jesus, they do really look alike. It's quite uncanny, much like my inability to put down this book during the time I was reading it. Funny, self deprecating and well written. It's like having a fireside chat with an old friend who is an expert at reeling off ripping yarns. Recommended both for fans of Mr Campbell's oeuvre and people who know zero about him but would like to read some fun tales regarding hollywood, its stars and more besides. This is still one of my favourite "it's by an actor" books, along with the other title by the same author "if chins could kill"

'Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way' is Bruce Campbell's imaginary account of what happened when he got asked to be in an A-List movie.It's a zany adventure narrated with a dry sense of humour. I laughed out loud a bunch of times - OMG the face peeling incident! - and I loved every minute of the wackiness that is 'Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way'.Okay, so I'm a fangirl and I knew I'd love this when I was so thoroughly amused by 'If Chins Could Kill'. I was entertained all the way to the end. The photos were hilarious too.

Evil dead, bubba hi-tep or some heel in spidey films Bruce is the biz!Nuff said

Another great book.A must for any chin fans out there!

Everything Bruce Campbell does and writes is beyond fantastic. And this book is even better. Megafantastic.