Kevin Pollak
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Kevin Pollak has appeared in over seventy films, including A Few Good Men, The Usual Suspects, Casino, and the Grumpy Old Men franchise, as well as numerous TV shows. One of Comedy Central's Top 100 Comedians of All Time, he lives a short bike ride from Venice Beach in Southern California.
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How I Slept My Way to the Middle: Secrets and Stories from Stage, Screen, and Interwebs (2012) 39 kappaletta
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Written by Kevin Pollak and Alan Goldsher; narrated by Kevin Pollak
Ⓟ 2013, Brilliance Audio
8.10 hours
Kevin Pollak’s career as an entertainer - comic, impersonator, show host, and actor - is the subject matter for this memoir. Whatever his merits are, his performance as an audiobook narrator are underwhelming. The storytelling and impersonations in are ill-timed and mostly weak respectively. Perhaps Pollak’s talents are best appreciated live and onscreen.
In Neil Genzlinger’s piece in the New York Time’s Sunday Book Review, “The Problem with Memoirs" (January 28, 2011,) Genzlinger advises that "If you’re jumping on a bandwagon, make sure you have better credentials than the people already on it." The story of Kevin Pollak’s life story and that of Billy Crystal’s (Still Foolin’ ‘Em) are remarkably similar: A Jewish boy discovers that he can get attention by being funny, impersonates a famous black person, performs at a Bar Mitzvah in front of his family and friends and Boom! a star is born! Except, the trajectory of Pollak’s career obviously arced lower than Billy Crystal’s - demonstrating that it takes more than skill, talent and ambition; but also a certain kind of luck. Pollak’s narrative lacks the vitality and timing and might have benefitted from performing some of his material live; but what couldn’t be fixed is that, despite being the narrative of an individual’s life, the events that served as plot points weren’t particularly unique or better than those of his contemporaries.
How I Slept My Way to the Middle is a reality-based book that, notwithstanding being a memoir of a comic, isn’t especially interesting, much less funny. Personally, I couldn’t hack more than a couple of hours before I DNF-ed this audiobook out of boredom.
OTHER: I borrowed a CD edition of How I Slept My Way to the Middle: Secrets and Stories from Stage, Screen and, the Interwebs (Written by Kevin Pollak and Alan Goldsher; narrated by Kevin Pollak) from the Jackson County Library System in Oregon. I receive no monies, goods or services in exchange for reviewing the product and/or mentioning any of the persons or companies that are or may be implied in this post.… (lisätietoja)