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| Burt Kearns at work |
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The evening’s host and moderator, screenwriter and producer Larry Karaszewski |
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| The official Reservoir Dogs Joe Cabot 12” action figure |
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
UPDATE: American CInematheque’s Instagram photos of the Lawrence Tierney double feature and book launch
Saturday, December 17, 2022
INSIDE THE AERO: American Cinematheque & Larry Edmunds Bookshop launch new bio, 'Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy'
\(SANTA MONICA, CA, December 16, 2022) A large and enthusiastic crowd turned out at the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre on Friday evening for the official launch of the first biography of legendary and notorious actor Lawrence Tierney. Author Burt Kearns was on hand to sign copies of his book, Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood’s Real-Life Tough Guy (published in December by the University Press of Kentucky - Screen Classics series). Acclaimed screenwriter and producer Larry Karaszewski (Dolemite Is My Name, The People V O.J. Simpson, Ed Wood, Man on the Moon, The People vs Larry Flynt, Big Eyes, Auto Focus, 1408, Problem Child) hosted a doube feature screening of the Tierney film noirs Born to Kill and Shakedown, and conducted a very entertaining Q&A with the author. Jeff Mantor of the Larry Edmunds Bookshop on Hollywood Boulevard sponsored the book signings.
AUTHOR BURT KEARNS (right) with JEFF MANTOR OF THE LARRY EDMONDS BOOKSHOP
DAVID DEL VALLE, FILM HISTORIAN & TIERNEY’S FRIEND, WITH TIERNEY NEPHEW TIM TIERNEY.
JEFF MANTOR OF LARRY EDMUNDS BOOKSHOP, BURT KEARNS & JEFF ABRAHAM,
KEARNS’ CO-AUTHOR ON THE SHOW WON’T GO ON.
LARRY KARASZEWSKI LEADS Q&A WITH AUTHOR BURT KEARNS
BORN TO KILL
SHAKEDOWN
KEARNS & WIFE ALISON HOLLOWAY (WITH NOIR FILTER)
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Lawrence Tierney Book Launch: ‘Born to Kill’ and ‘Shakedown’ double feature & book signing hosted by acclaimed screenwriter Larry Karaszewski Friday Dec 16
It’s a double-feature, book launch, book signing and special Q&A at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica!
Burt Kearns’ acclaimed new biography of the notorious and pugnacious actor Lawrence Tierney made its official debut on December 6, 2022. Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood’s Real-Life Tough Guy was published by the University Press of Kentucky, as part of its Screen Classic series.
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| Jeff Mantor of the Larry Edmunds Bookshop on Hollywood Boulevard, with author Burt Kearns and some Tierney swag, arranged the event and is selling signed first edition copies of Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood’s Real-Life Tough Guy. |
And two screen classics will launch the action-packed bio: a special one-night-only screening of Tierney’s 1947 classic film noir Born to Kill and the 1950 newspaper crime film Shakedown at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, California. Sponsored by the Larry Edmunds Bookshop in Hollywood and the American Cinematheque, the evening will feature book signings by author Kearns and a Q&A discussion with acclaimed screenwriter and producer Larry Karaszewski -- who was Tierney’s next-door neighbor early in his own career.
“The last time Larry Tierney came to see ‘Born to Kill’ at the American Cinematheque he sat in the back rown & pissed in a popcorn bucket,” Karaszewski tweeted on December 7 (read Czar of Noir Eddie Muller’s account here). “But they are saluting him anyway 12/16 - I’ll Q&A the author of the new book on his life to get even more crazy stories.”
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| Larry Karaszewski (r) and his screenwriting and producing partner Scott Alexander both recount tales of Tierney in the new book. |
What a line-up!
What a night!
What a book!
Order a signed copy of the book here.
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Lawrence Tierney, Hollywood’s Real-Life Tough Guy: The biography by Burt Kearns lands Tuesday
Burt Kearns’s latest book, LAWRENCE TIERNEY: HOLLYWOOD’S REAL-LIFE TOUGH GUY, will be published on Tuesday, December 6, 2022.
It is the first biography of the actor who became an overnight sensation in Dillinger, and after tumultuous decades marked by drinking, brawls and arrests, made an incredible and influential late-in-life comeback highlighted by his pivotal role in Quentin Trarantino’s film, Reservoir Dogs.
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