02655cam a2200325 i 4500 17701785 20250607053539.0 130417s2013 nyua 000 0 eng 17701785 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg acquire 2 shelf copies policy default rg16 2013-04-17 rg16 2013-04-17 ONIX to CIP (Dewey completed) xn09 2013-11-05 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver. rf18 2014-03-11 additional copy received rm04 2014-04-08 to CALM tc12 2017-08-17 third 020 removed--not in piece 2013008798 9781451661194 hardback 9781451661200 (e-book) DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc PN1997.R57565 S47 2013 791.43/72 23 SOC022000 PER004030 BIO005000 bisacsh Sestero, Greg, 1978- The disaster artist : my life inside The room, the greatest bad movie ever made / Greg Sestero & Tom Bissell. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2013] xvi, 270 pages : illustartions ; 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier "In 2003, an independent film called The Room--starring and written, produced, directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit of indeterminate age and origin named Tommy Wiseau--made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as "like getting stabbed in the head," the six-million-dollar film earned a grand total of $1800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Ten years later, The Room is an international cult phenomenon. Thousands of fans wait in line for hours to attend screenings complete with costumes, audience rituals, merchandising, and thousands of plastic spoons. In The Disaster Artist, actor Greg Sestero, Tommy's costar and longtime best friend, recounts the film's long, strange journey to infamy, unraveling mysteries for fans--who on earth is "Steven," and what's with that hospital on Guerrero Street?--as well as the question that plagues the uninitiated: how the hell did a movie this awful ever get made? But more than just a laugh-out-loud funny story about cinematic hubris, The Disaster Artist is also a great piece of narrative nonfiction, a portrait of a mysterious man who got past every road block in the Hollywood system to achieve success on his own terms. Written with a gimlet eye but an open heart, The Disaster Artist is the hilarious and inspiring story of a dream that just wouldn't die"-- Provided by publisher. Room (Motion picture) Bissell, Tom. 1974-