I Blame Dennis Hopper and Other Stories From a Life Lived In and Out of the Movies is a memoir from Illeana Douglas. While relating stories of her childhood and entry into acting, she gives a great look into show business behind the scenes.
Her grandfather was Melvyn Douglas. She's the girl from Scorsese's Cape Fear, that was her first big break. She has great childhood stories of fantasies to sing and act, miming Liza for youth productions. For years she was a publicist hobnobbing with movie stars, seeing how the industry worked, never putting herself forward until she began looping for Scorsese's films. They began a long relationship, interesting because she once longed to be in Liza's place. Although she has starred in several films, I think of her as a character actress - the second lead - and this memoir reads like a fans point of view, someone who is at the parties and premieres like we would all wish to be, and bringing back all the juicy anecdotes.
As well as hosting TCM and running a IBDH podcast, she is acting in and producing the web series Easy To Assemble, beginning as funny shorts filmed in an actual Ikea and turning into a series about an actress reduced to working at Ikea.
If you know films and filmmakers, I Blame Dennis Hopper is rich in stories you'll enjoy.
2015 / Hardcover / 295 pages
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