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There I go again : how I came to be Mr. Feeny, John Adams, Dr. Craig, KITT, and many others / William Daniels.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2017]Description: xiii, 207 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781612348520
  • 1612348521
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4502/8092 B 23
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"Bill Daniels is the personification of the humor, the humility, the humanity, and the dignity of the acting profession. Read his book." --Warren Beatty

There I Go Again is a celebrity memoir like no other, revealing the life of a man whose acting career has been so rich that millions of Americans know his face even while they might not recognize his name.

William Daniels is an enigma--a rare chameleon who has enjoyed massive success both in Hollywood and on Broadway and been embraced by fans of successive generations. Few of his peers inspire the fervor with which buffs celebrate his most iconic roles, among them George Feeny in Boy Meets World, KITT in Knight Rider, Dr. Mark Craig in St. Elsewhere , and John Adams in the play and film 1776 .

Daniels guides readers through some of Hollywood's most cherished productions, offering recollections of entertainment legends including Lauren Bacall, Warren Beatty, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Mike Nichols, Jason Robards, Barbra Streisand, and many more.

Looking back on his seventy-five-plus-year career, Daniels realizes that although he never had the courage to say "no" to being an actor, he backed into stardom. With his wife, actress Bonnie Bartlett, by his side, he came to realize that he wound up exactly where he was supposed to be: on the screen and stage.

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Publishers Weekly Review

Daniels, a Brooklyn native who's won two Emmys and been president of the Screen Actors Guild, talks about his series of memorable roles on stage and screen, including the status-loving father in The Graduate (1967), John Adams in the Broadway production of 1776 (1969), Dr. Craig in St. Elsewhere (1982), KITT in Knight Rider (1982), and Mr. Feeny in Boy Meets World (1993). As an entertainer, he was overly ambitious, and his career was interrupted by a stint in the military, but he shone brightly in the drama school at Northwestern, where he met his future wife, Bonnie Bartlett. Daniels is very gentle with the stars involved in the old Hollywood circles, including Veronica Lake, Marilyn Monroe, Jerome Robbins, Jason Robards Jr., Peter Sellers, Kirk Douglas, Albert Finney, and Mike Nichols. "Whatever success I've had in my life-and I've had considerable success-has come to me almost accidentally," writes Daniels. Capped off with a bright dialogue with Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and 30 photos, Daniels's reflective memoir permits the reader to sample the complicated emotional terrain of an actor. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Kirkus Book Review

An Emmy Award-winning actor recounts his career and how he "went ass backwards' into just about everythingand what a lucky guy I've been."Daniels, a character actor best known for his roles on the TV series St. Elsewhere, Knight Rider, and Boy Meets World, looks back on his career in excruciating detail. Throughout the book, the author delivers mild, occasionally amusing backstage anecdotes, the minutiae of decades-past business and political negotiationsDaniels served briefly as the president of the Screen Actors Guildand biographical data of little interest to anyone but the author's family in an unwavering, monotonous, on-the-verge-of-droll voice that evokes nothing but a prim self-regard. Readers looking for salacious showbiz dirt will be disappointed: Daniels remembers Jerome Robbins' brusque directorial style (Daniels was active on Broadway) and Jason Robards Jr.'s habit of disappearing from set to drinkboth observations are very old newsand that's about it. Daniels provided the voice for the talking car in the ludicrous 1980s program Knight Rider, but he recorded his parts separately and barely met notorious co-star David Hasselhoff. The author discusses the trials of being raised by a relentless stage mother and confesses to a drinking-problem period, but he allows only that it further soured his already prickly demeanor, which feels less than revelatory. Compact, with a regal bearing and a Brahmin accent, the Brooklyn native typically played supercilious establishment types, such as St. Elsewhere's arrogant surgeon Dr. Mark Craig and Boy Meets World's stern academic mentor George Feeny, and his prickly, acerbic lan added memorable flavor to such classic films as The Graduate and Two for the Road. Sadly, in book form, Daniels fails to similarly engage or amuse. An unrevealing and inessential showbiz memoir. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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