09-13-2024, 01:50 PM
Number One is Walking by Steve Martin and Harry Bliss
I heard about this book when it was mentioned in the new Steve Martin documentary. It was kind of interesting idea. Martin's life in pictures as told through cartoons drawn by Bliss. I finished the whole thing in about 30 minutes. Thankfully I got the book from the library.
There weren't a lot of good new stories in the book. In fact, there weren't a lot of stories. The only one that jumps out is Martin was playing banjo with some friends in SF and a stranger joined in with them. It was basically a jam session backstage at a concert. Only later did Martin realize the stranger was Jerry Garcia. But there weren't a lot of stories. Each movie was given about a page of drawings and that's it. And the movie anecdotes only cover a bout a third of the book. The other two thirds relate to the subtitle of the book: My life in the movies and other diversions. The other diversions is just page after page of Harry Bliss single page cartoons. They were funny. There was two Martin anecdotes in there. But no more movie anecdotes.
I was extremely disappointed by the fact there weren't more movie stories in the book.
I heard about this book when it was mentioned in the new Steve Martin documentary. It was kind of interesting idea. Martin's life in pictures as told through cartoons drawn by Bliss. I finished the whole thing in about 30 minutes. Thankfully I got the book from the library.
There weren't a lot of good new stories in the book. In fact, there weren't a lot of stories. The only one that jumps out is Martin was playing banjo with some friends in SF and a stranger joined in with them. It was basically a jam session backstage at a concert. Only later did Martin realize the stranger was Jerry Garcia. But there weren't a lot of stories. Each movie was given about a page of drawings and that's it. And the movie anecdotes only cover a bout a third of the book. The other two thirds relate to the subtitle of the book: My life in the movies and other diversions. The other diversions is just page after page of Harry Bliss single page cartoons. They were funny. There was two Martin anecdotes in there. But no more movie anecdotes.
I was extremely disappointed by the fact there weren't more movie stories in the book.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm