Warren Oates: A Wild Life (Screen Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (590 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081319346X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 536 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Wheeler, richardswheelerspot""Warren Oates: A Wild Life benefits from terrific research by author Susan Compo. "This book is not only useful but valuable; it pulls together a big piece of a compelling and important story. Behind the façade, Compo finds an ordinary human."Los Angeles Times""Susan Compo skillfully captures the story of Oates' eventful life, indulgent lifestyle, and influential career."Turner Classic Movies""Susan Compo skillfully captures the story of Oates' eventful life, indulgent lifestyle, and influential career."Turner Classic Movies""Enormously entertaining."WFMU""The author serves up a lively and studious look at this extraordinary man, chronicling his early life in Kentucky as well has his later achievements and misadventures."Tucson Citizen""Compo buil
With supporting roles in In the Heat of the Night (1967), The Hired Hand (1971), Badlands (1973), 1941 (1979), and Stripes (1981), Oates delivered solid performances for filmmakers as diverse and talented as Norman Jewison, Peter Fonda, Terrence Malick, Steven Spielberg, and Ivan Reitman. In Warren Oates: A Wild Life, author Susan Compo skillfully captures the story of Oates's eventful life, indulgent lifestyle, and influential career.. Though he never reached the lead actor status he labored so relentlessly to achieve, Warren Oates (1928–1982) is one of the most memorable and skilled character actors of the 1970s. Notorious for being a nightlife reveler, he was as sensitive and introspective as he was outgoing and prone to periods of exuberant, and at times illegal, excess. Though hardly lucrative work, it was during this time Oates met renegade director Sam Peckinpah, establishing the creative relationship and destructive friendship that produced some of Oates's most unforgettable roles in Ride the High Country (1962), Major Dundee (1965), and The Wild Bunch (1969), as well as a leading part in Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974). Born in the small town of Depoy in rural western Kentucky and reared in Louisville, Oates began his career in the late 1950s with bit parts in television westerns. Tho
I Never Had the Pleasure to Meet Warren Oates Richard Masloski .until now! And what a joy and thrill it was to "meet" Mr. Oates - if only in the pages of this moving book. I have known him as an actor through his work; now I feel I know him as a man because of Susan Compo's labor of love. In a world overflowing with books about major stars, it is pure joy to learn about the life and times of an actor whose name is and was never on everyone's lips. But what an actor! "Dillinger" may have . Believed its accuracy until the end booker Since I'm a relative newb to Oates' life (I've just seen a small handful of his movies and several 50s/60s TV episodes & rate as a shallow fangirl), the book seemed pretty impressive and solid (if a bit unimaginative in its prose) until it reached the very late point in his career with the miniseries "The Blue & the Gray." As luck would have it, I have seen that great Civil War epic at least a dozen times and the errors for t. "BEEN WAITING FOR THIS BOOK FOR BEEN WAITING FOR THIS BOOK FOR 37 YEARS!!! COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN A MORE ENTERTAINING MANNERBUT IF YOU LOVE WARREN OATES & KNOW THAT THIS HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING.WHATS NOT TO LOVE?!!?. 7 YEARS!!!" according to Exhumed Poet. COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN A MORE ENTERTAINING MANNERBUT IF YOU LOVE WARREN OATES & KNOW THAT THIS HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING.WHATS NOT TO LOVE?!!?
Susan Compo is a lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. She is the author of three works of fiction, including Pretty Things and Life After Death and Other Stories.