Now Reading: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
March 31, 2006Just as I’ve mentioned in a previous blog entry which spoke of my fondness of collecting
books, I have bought books which I haven’t read before. Two reasons why I wasn’t able to do so was first, I didn’t have the time to read them and second, I just didn’t feel like reading them yet.
Now that it’s vacation time, I’ve trashed both of those reasons and opted to read one of the books I have in hand…Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. This novel, which happens to be a motion picture as well, is an autobiography by the infamous Chuck Barris, a TV host of the 70’s show The Gong Show.
Here…take a peek…
”Suspense, excess, danger and exuberant fun come together in Chuck Barris’s unlikely autobiography, the tale of a wildly flamboyant 1970’s television producer of innovative game shows such as “The Gong Show” and “The Dating Game”. What most people don’t know is that Barris spent close to two decades as a decorated covert assassin for the CIA, claiming to have killed over 30 people. He joined the CIA as an agent in the early 1960s. He infiltrated the Civil Rights movement, met with militant Muslims in Harlem and was sent abroad to to kill enemies of the American state, even as his game shows began to soar to ratings success.“
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