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Just Another Yo-Yo Contest: A Memoir
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ISBN10: 059542516X
ISBN13: 9780595425167
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: Feb 27 2007
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780595425167
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: Feb 27 2007
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A sixty-one-year-old, modern-day Don Quixote, author Michael Stearns applies for a job in law enforcement in Cody, Wyoming. After a staff psychologist's interview leads to a diagnosis of schizophrenia, Stearns takes a moment to reminisce on his amazing life journey. Told as a flashback, Just Another Yo-Yo Contest is a hilarious memoir spanning four decades of his adult life.
Stearns, a high school dropout, works his way to the top of one profession after another. As a musician, he proves himself first-rate in at least a half a dozen bands that are world famous names. While playing in New York City, he is discovered by a visiting Hollywood theatrical agent, and he decides to return to the West Coast to pursue acting. From bit parts in television to starring roles in movies, Stearns shares behind-the-scenes tales of the rise of a struggling actor to the ranks of seasoned performer with over fifty filmed appearances to his credit. Stearns's life winds its way through a sex, drugs, and jazz beginning, into an extensive career as a film and television actor, and later, into his profession as a top-producing Beverly Hills stockbroker and real estate executive. Just Another Yo-Yo Contest is a kaleidoscope of Stearns' intriguing and entertaining adventures.
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