Hollywood Causes Cancer by Tom Green
Not a day goes by when I don't wake up and think, just for a second, usually between taking a leak and brushing my teeth, what the hell happened? Eight years ago, Tom Green lived in his parents' basement in Canada. He spent his time skateboarding, making funny videos with his friends, and dreaming of hosting his own talk show. MTV saw his low-budget public access show and brought him to New York, and Tom's next few years in show business were a bizarre roller-coaster ride. Not only did he achieve his dream with The Tom Green Show, but he launched a movie career and married a Hollywood actress. Then the tide turned. Their house burned down. Tom was diagnosed with testicular cancer (and recorded his surgery in a hysterical, oddly moving documentary for MTV). He endured a highly publicized divorce. All of a sudden, he went from media darling to media punching bag. Hollywood Causes Cancer, now in paperback, is the full story of Tom Green's wildly entertaining trip to celebrity. It's an absorbing and revelatory look at a dramatic, excessive, ruthless place called Hollywood, and how one man survived his journey into the heart of it all.Tom Green, journalist, writer and video producer, has been reporting on and producing programming about technology for over two decades.
Green is the founder (2017), publisher and editor in chief of Asian Robotics Review. Previously, 2012-2016, he launched and was founding editor in chief of Robotics Business Review (a property of EH Publishing). Green was also on-air host and lead researcher (2013-2016) for Robotics Business Review's webcast programs, as well as lead editor and contributing author for Robotics Business Review's annual series of robotics research reports.
Green has spoken at national and international robotics events and conferences; has been the subject of interviews on robotics with Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, Swissquote, and CNN Money, among others; and also serves as a consultant and adviser on robotics from startups to multi-national corporations.
Formerly, as a TV writer/producer at Boston's ABC affiliate WCVB-TV, Channel 5, he wrote and produced the news program Lifelines; and was lead writer on weekly sitcom Park Street Under. His work has been twice nominated for Emmy Awards.
His stage plays were produced at Boston's Next Move Theatre and then reproduced as radio plays for National Public Radio. Green's In the Room the Women Come and Go won a UNICO national short story award.
Green owned and operated his own video production company for ten years where he produced video for corporations, broadcast, and cable TV.
He is the author of the Amazon best seller Bright Boys: The Making of Information Technology (Taylor & Francis, 2010).
Green's newest book, The Untold Story of Everything Digital, Bright Boys, Revisited, published by Taylor & Francis (London) goes on sale October 2019.
Web address for The Untold Story of Everything Digital
http: //www.brightboysmedia.com/untold-story.html
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| ISBN 13 | 9781400052776 |
| ISBN 10 | 1400052777 |
| Title | Hollywood Causes Cancer |
| Author | Tom Green |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Three Rivers Press (CA) |
| Year published | 2005-10-25 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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