Description: Condition: Very Good. SIGNED twice - flat signed on front cover and signed with inscription on title page! Inscribed, personalized (See Photos)! Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos)! Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Cover: clean, bright, very good edges with minor curl to front top corner tip and slight bumping at back bottom edge. Ships from California. Ships same or next day (weekdays and Saturdays)! ABOUT THIS: "Making movies is a lot like life - a swirling chaotic clusterf*ck." With these opening words, Rob Ryder grabs you by the scruff, jacks you into a subway car and starts spitting out Warriors stories, one after another, as that D train, the 6th Avenue Express, hurtles into the night. It's the summer of 1978, and Ryder's been hired onto The Warriors as a P.A. then quickly bumped up to location scout. Six weeks later, a stuntman smashes up his leg and Ryder is suddenly a Baseball Fury. A weird turn of events - what with that purple make-up and long black wig and Yankees uniform... PURPLE FURY: Rumbling with the Warriors is fast, smart and funny. Not your typical glamorous movie memoir - "On my first day I opened the front passenger door to a van, stuck out my hand to the Teamster behind the wheel and said, "Hi. I'm Rob Ryder." His reply - "So what?" Just that fast, Ryder finds himself caroming across Brooklyn looking for a street to blow up a car. (Without pissing off the neighbors.) Slogging up and down Manhattan, searching out a giant grimy bathroom for the Warriors/Punks fight. (Paramount eventually had to build one.) Escaping a brawl with some old-school Coney Island gangsters over a pair of giant bolt-cutters. (They never got them back.) This book is no scholarly tome - but a cold plunge into the hot mess of real-life movie production - Ryder rough-shodding you into the spooky depths of Riverside Park or the stink and grime and squealing of trains in the NYC subways. And just when New York's becoming all too m
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Publication Year: 2023
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Book Title: Purple Fury: Rumbling with the Warriors]
Signed: Yes
Personalized: Yes
Author: Rob Ryder
Inscribed: Yes
