{"product_id":"stuntman-my-car-crashing-plane-jumping-bone-breaking-death-defying-hollywood-life-0316078999","title":"Stuntman!: My Car-Crashing, Plane-Jumping, Bone-Breaking, Death-Defying Hollywood Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0316078999\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Needham, Hal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe classic no-holds-barred memoir from Hollywood's most legendary stuntman -- an inspiration for Brad Pitt's character Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood -- is \"full of incredible stories as told by a real man of action\" (Arnold Schwarzenegger).Yep that's me, Hal Needham, on the cover doing a fire stunt. When you're on fire you don't dare breathe because if you do, you'll suck those flames right down your throat. I was Hollywood's highest paid stuntman so I should know.I wrecked hundreds of cars, fell from tall buildings, got blown up, was dragged by horses, and along the way broke 56 bones, my back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth...I hung upside down by my ankles under a bi-plane in The Spirit of St. Louis, jumped between galloping horses inLittle Big Man, set a world record for a boat stunt on Gator, jumped a rocket powered pick-up truck across a canal for a GM commercial, was the first human to test the car airbag-and taught John Wayne how to really throw a movie punch.Life also got exciting outside of the movie business. I had my Ferrari stolen right from under my nose, flew in a twin-engine Cessna with a passed out pilot, rescued the cast and crew from a Russian invasion in Czechoslovakia, and once took six flight attendants on a date. I owned the Skoal-Bandit NASCAR race team, the sound-barrier breaking Budweiser Rocket Car and drove a souped-up, fake ambulance in a \"little\" cross-country race called The Cannonball Run, which became the movie I directed by the same name. Oh yeah, I also directed Smokey and the Bandit, Hooper and several other action\/comedy movies that I liked a bunch.I was a sharecropper's son from the hills of Arkansas who became a Hollywood stuntman. That journey was a tough row to hoe. I continually risked my life but that was the career I chose. I was never late to the set and did whatever I had to do to get the job done.Hollywood's not all sunglasses and autographs. Let me tell you a few stories...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51525121573152,"sku":"NEW0316078999","price":52.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71GvyGfGfbL_e2086ea9-8648-4dec-8d4e-6b639ca07193.jpg?v=1777141278","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/stuntman-my-car-crashing-plane-jumping-bone-breaking-death-defying-hollywood-life-0316078999","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}