A couple of years ago, my entire Christmas list consisted of the new WWE game and George Carlin’s autobiography, ‘Last Words.’ Today, I read of the upcoming release of “Weird Al: The Book,” which will likely be my Christmas list for 2012. Given that I already own Bill Shater’s ‘Star Trek Memories’ and Rick Flair’s ‘To Be The Man,’ I’m pretty much one Mike Nesmith biography away from a shelf featuring the life and times of all my major idols. (Snake-Eyes, Joliet Jake Blues, Christopher Knight and Herbie The Love Bug are all apparently fictional, and thus considered ineligible for biography treatment.)
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) lost on Jeopardy, baby, oooh oooh oooh ooooh, asking:
What famous person’s autobiography would you most want to read?
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Dan Akroyd, Matt Stone & Trey Parker.
Paul Heyman
Frank Welker, Billy West, John Romita, Jr., Andrew Vachss, and Al Sleet. (once i started thinking about this one, i found it difficult to stop, both the search for compelling people and the refinement of the criteria one uses to select.)
As soon as you mentioned it, I totally forgot about every voice actor. I’m ashamed.
Seconding Frank Welker, the Mel Blanc of TV animation.
I don’t know if there is an autobiography of someone still alive that I am dying to read, but my favorite bio is Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman, the biography of Richard Feynman. The follow up tome is also really great.
You could say that Frank Welker is the Mel Blanc of ‘our generation’.
From Pro Wrestling, Keiji Muto/The Great Muta and Jushin Liger.
Comics: George Perez.
Hmm, tough call. Weird Al is up there on the list, so I’m definitely glad that there is indeed one coming out.
Tough to choose as there are so many people in different areas of entertainment that I find interesting.