Xenya Shishkova Shishkova itibaren EL LLANO, Pensilvania, Caldas, Kolombiya
Quite the argument for politics.
No one could ever call Steve Martin inarticulate so this memoir is a musing on his early days at the comedy coal face.Interesting and philosophical at times -- but there's not much there to hook you up with the man behind the weird and crazy guy.The problem is, I think, that Martin stopped being funny when he well and truly put stand up behind him. His collaboration in films that saw his early gems -- especially The Man with Two Brains -- are here presented as a way to survive in the business. But aside from being funny he wants to anchor his wherewithall in a sort of pragmatism by hindsight.So this it seems to me is a constructed narrative to justify where he now may be at and why he no longer does it like the old days. I've read his novels, seen his plays, and of course watched him act -- but outside the weird and crazy he comes across as a bit sterile -- not much there bar for the last joke.Great jokes of course, brilliant takes and memorable performances ( Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Planes Trains and Automobiles especially) but I get the impression that the passion has gone and a quest for logic now pervades. The turning point he tells us was when he cut his hair....and put the sixties behind him.