Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way
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| Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way | |
| Author | Bruce Campbell |
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| Illustrator | Craig "Kif" Sanborn |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press imprint of Thomas Dunne Books |
| Publication date | May 26, 2005 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) & Audio book |
| Pages | 320 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-0312312602 |
Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way is the second book by author and actor Bruce Campbell. It was first published on May 26, 2005. The entire novel is written in the first person by the author, Bruce Campbell. It is a satire of the genre of celebrity memoirs; its title is a parody of Jenna Jameson's book, "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star".
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[edit] What If
The entire novel is written in the first person and involves real life famous people such as Richard Gere, Renée Zellweger and Mike Nichols however, it is a fictional novel. On the jacket of Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way the author states, quote:
Is it an "autobiographical novel"? Yes. I'm the lead character in the story, and I'm a real person, and everything in the book actually happened, except for the stuff that didn't.[1]
From this quote it may be inferred that while there are elements of the truth, the book is, ultimately, a work of fiction.
[edit] Plot summary
Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way begins with an excerpt from an email that Bruce Campbell received from Barry Neville from St. Martin's Press in regards to a book that he was attempting to write about walking entitled Walk This Way (note: Walk This Way is a fictional book). The email states the publisher's disinterest in the book Walk This Way but a desire for Bruce Campbell to work on another project. Upon calling Barry Neville, Bruce is presented with the idea of writing a relationship book. Bruce can not get his head around the idea since he does not see himself as an authority on the subject and feels his editor has a false impression of his mastery of relationships.
Bruce is contacted by his acting agent; Barry, about a potential role in a Richard Gere / Renée Zellweger romantic comedy entitled Let's Make Love written by Kevin Jarre, directed by Mike Nichols and produced by Robert Evans. Bruce jumps to the conclusion that the role is a small insignificant part he finds out that his role is in fact a large part as the wise-cracking doorman. Bruce ends up going to New York and auditioning for the role. Bruce manages to get the role even though his audition wasn't as good as several other famous actors.
Bruce Campbell ends up getting the role despite the fact he was not the first, second or last choice; other considerees included Johnny Depp, John Cusack, Billy Campbell, Gary Sinise, John Malkovich and Robert Patrick. From this point on Bruce tries to do research for his role. He first tries being a doorman at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel where he has an encounter with Colin Powell that does not end well.
Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way continues to follow Bruce Campbell through his trials and tribulations with the movie. Including going to a gentleman's club to supposedly learn how to be a true southern gentlemen but instead finding it no more than a strip club and ends up getting shot for portraying himself as someone else while there. Bruce also makes a trip out to see a friend about relationships but find him nothing more than a sleaze who takes advantage of his clients.
By the end of the book Bruce is fighting to keep his role and seeing Let's Make Love sliding from an A-List movie to a B-List movie supposedly due to the B-Movie actor curse caused by Bruce Campbell.
[edit] Images
Make Love! the Bruce Campbell Way uses many original images created by graphic artist Craig "Kif" Sanborn to give the readers both a feel for the message he is trying to convey as well as a quick and easy joke. Including an image of a van that has "Ordinary Parked Van, Pay No Attention Just Keep Doing What You Are Doing, Speak Clearly & Audibly".
[edit] Spoken Word
Bruce Campbell's reading of the book was released on 6 CDs on June 14, 2005 by Rykodisc which includes additional readers for the other characters in the book.
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