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An uproarious memoir that captures an era and describes the
unlikely origins of a star.
In 2008, as he attempted to enter Canada to film a television
series, Harry Hamlin--the former star of "L.A. Law "and once
"People "magazine's Sexiest Man Alive--was detained at the border
for unresolved narcotics convictions. And so begins "Full Frontal
Nudity, "a laugh-out-loud-funny memoir in which Harry digs deep
into his past to recount the wacky experiences of his childhood,
the twisted path that led to his alleged criminal behavior, and the
series of fortuitous mishaps that drove him to become an actor.
Harry was reared in suburban California in the late 1950s by a
gin-gulping, pill-popping housewife mother and a rocket scientist
father with a secret life. On its surface, his childhood was not
unlike his peers', except that he was kicked out of the fourth
grade for writing a book report on "Mein Kampf "and, when he was
eleven, his parents gave him a subscription to "Playboy "for
Christmas. Curious by nature, chock-full of boyish charm and good
looks, Harry experimented with mystical religion and set off for
Woodstock, only to narrowly avoid lighting the whole of Yellowstone
National Park on fire. At eighteen, he was ready to matriculate at
Berkeley and become the architect he always wanted to be. But
fate--this time in the form of a large Hells Angel, a few purple
microdots, and an evening in the tree houses of La Honda--got in
the way.
Sharp and bawdy, "Full Frontal Nudity "spans the years from Harry's
childhood through his time at Berkeley (which he was asked to leave
after he was accused of running a brothel), to Yale, then on an
extended vacation in the Yucatan, and finally to the American
Conservatory Theater, where Harry played his first lead role--as
the buck-naked star of "Equus."
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