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'The Guttenberg Bible'

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    Actor reflects on his Hollywood tales

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But there's gonna -- -- -- sooner or later.

Hanley who I don't know where else to turning right so did I hope you can both -- -- -- -- Clubs who still eligible to know yeah.

Troubles wouldn't.

Yeah that's correct.

-- rocketed in the top of the Hollywood with big screen hits like three minute baby now actor Steve Gutenberg shares the story of his Bonnie climb from a seventeen year old unknown.

Two international film star in his memoir that Gutenberg Bible -- joining us right now is the actor himself we would read the introduction of who is actually here Steve Gutenberg look into the cap.

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- My parents were nice enough to let me go.

I mean if you think about -- you can go on the Hollywood at seventeen years old and the reason it's crazy is because on the first page your book you talk about you going to -- the office of an agent -- -- you're all excited about becoming a big star and what does he say.

He says you the last guy I would everything to be movies and you're just on the that your wife introduced Bruce Willis to the same agency they told them the same thing pretty my -- so I think that's -- well the great thing about show business is it's anybody's game.

If you believe in yourself and you believe you can make it.

Then you're the one who's right when you blow when did you believe you gonna make it or was it a movie was it a role was -- one -- -- minutes ago that's.

Fifteen minutes you thought of yeah.

-- it.

I was lucky I have great parents and they always instilled in me belief in myself sir that you can be whatever you -- to be.

And they also -- great Americans and they believe in this country.

And this is I believe the only country in the world.

Where you can say.

I want to be I want to go to the top of the tower and everybody can say no and you can get up there but you've got it spot and it says in your book and you have examples where.

You go to Hollywood.

You figure.

I -- get inside the Paramount studios are you doing you're walking in the guards his ordeal and eventually you lied and said -- Michael Eisner the most powerful man Paramount sun -- sun -- -- right I said it was a -- And those days there was no computer ended regardless of what he's got little kids your bag that surrounds that -- second right yeah.

But I was very very lucky.

Everything sort of works out.

And I was able to actually get an office at Paramount for two years but you -- have to lie to people again I'm working for Faye Dunaway and we don't Lucille Ball below lie and showbiz is really just conversation about it now.

And I know that it's -- a conversation.

Is a great story that somebody tells about a producer pitching executive.

Telling him lie lie after lie in the producer says.

-- that the executive -- you're lying to me in the producer says.

Yes but hear me out.

That they get out -- you go to the top of cocoon treatment of baby.

-- is it harder to get there -- sustained.

Well.

I think that if you look at the problem with looking at an actors' careers forgetting that he's an artist.

An artist to wingers go up and down it's a cycle everybody has a cycle so sometimes your paintings sell and sometimes they don't.

But you have to just go with the -- yet to enjoy the game.

-- it's just the game and in the book you you start -- when you went out to Hollywood -- -- six and then it -- about ten years later just.

With three men and -- a baby just ends right there -- -- Where to go.

Well what -- was I wrote 600 pages.

And my editor said.

If you do your whole life your whole career which is 35 years.

This will be a 2000 page at a week you're just not Christopher Plummer.

Especially at the data -- -- the first continues my career and then I thought we do a second one in the third wife Julie -- Polly went to step away -- walk away because I wanted to spend more time with my family my friends.

And I'm a pretty obsessive guy and -- I work I really like to work hard and being and you -- my job.

And I thought to myself to -- I think the whole idea about being an American is work really hard become successful.

And then relax via the -- not to work really hard become successful and that dollar stressed.

So I had to act like noticing now that it now that you're spending more time with your family they live -- -- -- -- what this means you can spend more time with Bryant -- -- -- sixty.

Is it -- golf on Saturday let's go to let's go to Dunkin' Donuts have been fantastic we're gonna put my nasty finish up -- -- -- But his new book it's fantastic it's called the Gutenberg Bible if -- The prospects of political hat because under the age I don't like a great -- we brought them together that look up.

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