{"product_id":"stuntman-my-carcrashing-planejumping-bonebreaking-deathdefying-hollywood-life-9780316078993","title":"Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life\u003c\/strong\u003e by Needham, Hal. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780316078993.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe classic no-holds-barred memoir from Hollywoods most legendary stuntman -- an inspiration for Brad Pitts character Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood -- is \"full of incredible stories as told by a real man of action\" (Arnold Schwarzenegger).\n\nYep thats me, Hal Needham, on the cover doing a fire stunt. When youre on fire you dont dare breathe because if you do, youll suck those flames right down your throat. I was Hollywoods highest paid stuntman so I should know.\n\nI wrecked hundreds of cars, fell from tall buildings, got blown up, was dragged by horses, and along the way broke 56 bones, my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth...I hung upside down by my ankles under a bi-plane in The Spirit of St. Louis, jumped between galloping horses in\n\nLittle Big Man, set a world record for a boat stunt on Gator, jumped a rocket powered pick-up truck across a canal for a GM commercial, was the first human to test the car airbag-and taught John Wayne how to really throw a movie punch.\n\nLife also got exciting outside of the movie business. I had my Ferrari stolen right from under my nose, flew in a twin-engine Cessna with a passed out pilot, rescued the cast and crew from a Russian invasion in Czechoslovakia, and once took six flight attendants on a date. I owned the Skoal-Bandit NASCAR race team, the sound-barrier breaking Budweiser Rocket Car and drove a souped-up, fake ambulance in a \"little\" cross-country race called The Cannonball Run, which became the movie I directed by the same name. Oh yeah, I also directed Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper and several other action\/comedy movies that I liked a bunch.\n\nI was a sharecroppers son from the hills of Arkansas who became a Hollywood stuntman. That journey was a tough row to hoe. I continually risked my life but that was the career I chose. I was never late to the set and did whatever I had to do to get the job done.\n\nHollywoods not all sunglasses and autographs. Let me tell you a few stories...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"LITTLE, BROWN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45255496564789,"sku":"ByrdShop_0316078999","price":45.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780316078993_60f06435-423e-4700-82b7-aec406c833f1.jpg?v=1779930515","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/stuntman-my-carcrashing-planejumping-bonebreaking-deathdefying-hollywood-life-9780316078993","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}