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Over his 30-plus-year acting career, Roy Scheider has redefined America's idea of a leading man, thanks to his talent for playing an urban everyman that audiences relate to and root for, despite flaws and failures.
He rose to fame in the early 1970s in the Oscar-winning films Klute and The French Connection (his first Oscar nomination). Roy garnered more critical acclaim in Jaws and Marathon Man, as well as a second Oscar nomination for All That Jazz.
Scheider's life and career are chronicled in this work. Beginning with his childhood in New Jersey, it traces his development from a community theater actor to a world-renowned movie star, and covers his more recent work in the Golden Globe-winning RKO 281 and the Shakespearean drama King of Texas. Includes a complete filmography and index. ... Read more

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Great amount of information about the great Roy Scheider...
Roy Scheider was a great actor and very under-appreciated for his work in films such as THE FRENCH CONNECTION, SEVEN-UPS, JAWS, JAWS 2, SORCERER, BLUE THUNDER, 2010, 52 PICK-UP,THE FOURTH WAR etc...

It's great to have a book about Roy Scheider out there. This is basically a compilation of articles covering Scheider's career in chronological order. Diane Kachmar deserves credit for putting this book together and for doing such extensive research on Scheider.

My only complaint is I saw quite a few grammatical errors throughout the book and it seems cut and pasted together at times. Wasn't this book proof-read by the publisher?

Still buy it.

Good Read R.I.P Roy
If you want the details of Roy Scheider's life on and off the screen , well then this is the book to read. Ive heard that Scheider as been called an "everyman's" actor and the description fits him to a tee..just look at him on the front cover of this book. He can play the caring lovable character and at the same time he looks as though he can take care of himself and save the day. Anyway, the first half of the book is interesting; you learn about Scheider's upbringing, his venture into movies, and his rise to fame.The second half of the book basically gets bogged down by a tiresome list of critics reviews for Scheider lesser known movies. Dont worry, Im not knocking Scheider's lesser known movies, some of them are pretty good. Im a fan of...here's a big surprise...JAWS and JAWS 2. SORCERER was a good creepy action flick. FRENCH CONNECTION was gritty and tough. He starred in a baseball disney movie; I cant remember the title, but he played on the detroit tigers. Sadly Roy Scheider passed away recently and the world of cinema lost a truly gifted unique and inventive actor. Luckiliy, he left behind a legacy unforgotten in his hit films. Films of Roy, I enjoy. R.I.P ... Read more

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The major problem for doctors is how to get people to exercise, eat right, and take necessary medications consistently. "Acting Well" provides a simple, doable technique, based on centuries-old acting techniques, for creating a character that is consistently compliant with a healthy lifestyle. Without such techniques, all diet plans, fitness exercise plans, and stress reducing practices are probably doomed to fail. ... Read more

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Acting on great advice
This book is an excellent, no-nonsense, logical and creative report on fitness for life.I have been "acting on" the recommendations for about 6 weeks and my experience is 100% validating.I have ended my twice weekly visits to the chiropractor as I was over-exercising periodically, creating muscular soreness and discomfort, instead of exercising moderately every single day.I now do 30 minutes of sweat producing exercise every day on home equipment.No nonsense.30 minutes straight out of bed.Its liberating and exhilarating.So simple and so effective.The changes in my metabolism and the positive effect of the endorphins make for easier and better food/nutrition choices.Try it.

A weight program that works!
I had done scores of diets, exercise programs, etc., and never kept the weight off.I had put on 20 extra pounds in the early 1990s, and simply couldn't get it off--not to mention that I have always struggled, dieted, procrastinated, etc., about my being overweight.

In February, 2000, I went on Acting Well.The key is using the log, doing the brief mental preparation in the morning, and understanding--just a little bit--how a properly trained actor creates a new role.It's all in the book, and it's all very simple.

Two years later?I took off around 25 pounds in the first year, going from 172 down to 145-150.I have settled in at 149 (I thoroughly enjoy weighing myself every day!), and sometimes drop a bit lower.It's important that I lost slowly, and even more important that I have NO trouble keeping it off.Now I am a thin person, and I enjoy the habits of a thin person.I know this will last for the rest of my life.

My only disappointment is that I didn't do it (it wasn't available, unfortunately) sooner.

I love my new me, which is really the me I always wanted to be.I never thought I'd make it though.Amazing!

And, incidentally, the book is a fun read; very well written.It debunks lots of stuff, medical and otherwise, and makes it clear that the problem is psychological, not physical.Calorie counting, excess exercising, dieting--they all don't work for more than a short time.This is a sensible, doable program; not a program, in fact, a life!After all, Shakespeare said that we're all only actors on a stage.With this plan, we can be good actors!

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Jaws is a 1975 American horror/thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. The police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant great white shark by closing the beach, only to be overruled by the town council, which wants the beach to remain open to draw a profit from tourists during the summer season. After several attacks, the police chief enlists the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter. Roy Scheider stars as police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as marine biologist Matt Hooper, Robert Shaw as shark hunter Quint, Murray Hamilton as the Mayor of Amity Island, and Lorraine Gary as Brody's wife, Ellen. Jaws is regarded as a watershed film in motion picture history, the father of the summer blockbuster movie and one of the first "high concept" films. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Roy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 - February 10, 2008) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as police chief Martin Brody in Jaws, as choreographer and film director Joe Gideon in All That Jazz, and as detective Buddy Russo in The French Connection. Scheider's final performance is to be released posthumously in the 2010 thriller Iron Cross. Scheider was born in Orange, New Jersey, the son of Anna Scheider (née Crosson) and auto mechanic Roy Bernhard Scheider. Scheider's mother was of Irish Catholic background and his father was German American and Protestant. ... Read more

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Chapters: Sam Walton, Roy Scheider, Bernard Williams, V. P. Singh, Peter Boyle, Hulda Regehr Clark, Ralph Ginzburg, Stan Winston, Yvon Cormier, Ali Kordan, Louis Rukeyser, Ralph D. Winter, Mickey Hargitay, Warren William, Moe Drabowsky, Angela Coughlan, J. Carter Brown, Carla Moran, Anna Held, Don Herbert, Michel Mirowski, Tom Cole, Eppie Lederer, Derek Denny-Brown, Caro Jones, Lloyd Thaxton, Phil Smith, Nathan Isgur, Cyril Walsh, Merle Sande, Jim Davis, Richard Bell, Martha Beall Mitchell, Jo Clayton, Daniel Seligman, Ted Uhlaender, Jacob A. Marinsky, Robert Rosenthal, Leo Edward O'neil, Thomas William Ferguson, Mark Lenard, Hayden Rorke, Scott M. Matheson, Michael Vernon, Rena Kanokogi, Vern Ruhle, Terry Zahn, Jack Rosenthal, Grace Abbott, Gilbert Moses, George Andreasen, Ras Shorty I, Stephen J. Friedman, Kazue Takahashi, Caroline Mcwilliams, Grace Halsell, Mario Acuña, Bülent Arel, Abolfazl Monadi, Graham Jarvis, Malcolm Diamond, John Sack, Harry Goz, B. J. Kennedy, Warren Spears. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 284. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (21 September 192910 June 2003) was an English moral philosopher, described by The Times as the "most brilliant and most important British moral philosopher of his time". His publications include Problems of the Self (1973), Moral Luck (1981), Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985), and Truth And Truthfulness: An Essay In Genealogy (2002). As Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, Williams became known internationally for his attempt to reorient the study of moral philosophy to history and culture, politics and psychology, and, in particular, to the Greeks. Described as an "analytic philos...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=552586 ... Read more

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Chapters: Roy Scheider, Denver Randleman, John Joshua Webb, Cephas Washburn, Alex Hill, George Washington Hays. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Roy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 February 10, 2008) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as police chief Martin Brody in Jaws, as choreographer and film director Joe Gideon in All That Jazz, and as detective Buddy Russo in The French Connection. Scheider's final performance is to be released posthumously in the 2010 thriller Iron Cross. Described by Allmovie as "one of the most unique and distinguished of all Hollywood actors", Scheider has been nominated for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award. Scheider was born in Orange, New Jersey, the son of Anna Scheider (née Crosson) and auto mechanic Roy Bernhard Scheider. Scheider's mother was of Irish Catholic background and his father was German American and Protestant. As a child, Scheider was an athlete, participating in organized baseball and boxing competitions, for which he was classed as a welterweight, weighing in at 140 lbs. He attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, and was inducted into the school's hall of fame in 1985. He traded his boxing gloves for the stage, studying drama at both Rutgers University and Franklin and Marshall College, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. After three years in the United States Air Force, he appeared with the New York Shakespeare Festival, and won an Obie Award in 1968. Scheider played running roles on two CBS soap operas, Love of Life and The Secret Storm. Scheider's first film role was in the 1963 horror film The Curse of the Living Corpse. (He was billed as "Roy R. Sheider"). Similarly, when he appeared in the 1969 exploitation movie '...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=164370 ... Read more

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Chapters: John Milnor, Warren Sturgis Mcculloch, George B. Mcclellan, Bobby Czyz, Roy Scheider, Thomas R. Pickering, Daniela Gioseffi, Sandra Boynton, Ray Heatherton, Al Harrington, George Huntington Hartford, Mark E. Kelly, Ken Blanchard, Jay Lynch, Christopher Collins, Anthony Accetturo, Dickinson W. Richards, Robert Adams, Peter S. Connor, James Smith Bush, Lowell Mason, John Batterson Stetson, Stephanie Adams, Chub Feeney, Jim Ringo, Eugene Nickerson, Peter Shapiro, John Harbison, Tony Galento, Gail Fisher, Ronald I. Spiers, Douglas J. Bennet, A. J. Price, Samuel P. Bush, Walter G. Alexander, Jay Alford, David Ackroyd, Scott J. Kelly, Stephen Dobyns, Mims Hackett, Tom O'malley, Frank Tallman, Morton Schindel, Jeff Zaun, Bobby Jones, John Mortimer Smith, Daniel Quillen, Steven A. Cohen, Peter Cain, N. J. Burkett, James J. Barry Jr, John Augustine Hartford, Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule Iii, Leroy Dubeck, Lynne Russell, Robert Hett Chapman, Charles Knox Robinson Iii, Beekman Winthrop, Aaron B. Tompkins, David Ferry, Dennis M. Cavanaugh, Edward Rafeedie, Thomas Aloysius Boland, Corinne Alsop Cole, Charles N. Fowler, Maria Jeritza, Karen Hunter, Steven Cramer, Ira Condict, Lesley Bush, Ray Yagiello, John Condit, Ernest Trow Carter, Marc Cartwright, Charles H. O'brien, Daniel F. Minahan, Stephen Hartke, Terie Norelli, Beatrice Hicks, Jim Collins, Silas Condit, Richard M. Freeland, John Crotty, Dickinson Richards Debevoise, Jim Trelease, Henry Graves, John L. Blake, Constance Adams Demille, James C. Condos, Isaac Pierson, James Girard Lindsley, Bruce Gray, Syd Kitson, Patrick E. Hobbs, Will Holder, Frank C. Stanley, Jack Robinson, Joe Duckworth, Daniel J. Shanefield, Hayward A. Harvey, Lloyd Conover. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 398. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: George Brinton ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=104977 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bill Hicks, Sam Walton, Roy Scheider, Orval Faubus, Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, Jim Benton, Claiborne Fox Jackson, Billy Lee Riley, Dale Hawkins, Virginia Clinton Kelley, Thomas William Ferguson, Charles Christian Hammer. Excerpt:Bill Hicks William Melvin "Bill" Hicks (December 16, 1961 February 26, 1994) was an American stand-up comedian and satirist . His humor challenged mainstream beliefs, aiming to "enlighten people to think for themselves." Hicks used a ribald approach to express his material, describing himself as "Chomsky with dick jokes ." His jokes included general discussions about society, religion, politics, philosophy and personal issues. Hicks' material was often deliberately controversial and steeped in dark comedy . In both his stand-up performances, and during interviews, he often criticized consumerism , superficiality, mediocrity and banality within the media and popular culture , describing them as oppressive tools of the ruling class, meant to "keep people stupid and apathetic." Hicks died of pancreatic cancer , which had spread to his liver, in 1994 at the age of 32. In the years after his death, his work and legacy achieved significant admiration and acclaim, of numerous comedians, writers, actors and musicians alike. He was listed as the 19th greatest stand-up comedian of all time by Comedy Central in 2004, and 6th greatest in 2007 and 4th greatest in 2010 by Channel 4 . Early life Born in Valdosta, Georgia , Bill Hicks was the son of Jim and Mary (Reese) Hicks, and had two elder siblings, Steve and Lynn. The family lived in Florida , Alabama and New Jersey , before settling in Houston, Texas , when Hicks was seven. He was raised in the Southern Baptist faith, where he first began performing as a comedian to other children at Sunday School . He was draw... ... Read more