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Audiobooks Narrated by Michael Madsen
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"From the foreword by Quentin Tarantino:
'One of the reasons Michael's work has such meaning for me is he's writing about feelings and emotions
that it seems at times the last few generations have become blind to. Some of Michael's work is about family
remembrances. A moment he saw his mother wrap her arms around his father's waist, or how his sister looked
in one dress in particular. Some of them are thought jazz. Some are the best recordings of the gypsy life of a
movie actor I've ever read. Michael stuck on some location, on some crappy movie, bored out of his mind with
too much time on his hands and not enough per diem is Michael at his funniest. But for me, the real journey
that Michael the writer is exploring is what it means to be a man in a world where the notions of manhood
that some of us grew up with are barely remembered. But then if everybody embarked on the hero's journey,
everybody would be a hero, wouldn't they?'
Tears For My Father: Outlaw Thoughts & Poems explores not only Madsen's remarkable life and experiences in
and out of Hollywood, but also his familial influences that have participated in crafting and shaping him, including
thoughts on his father; his mother and the rumor that he was born without a left hand; ghosts, whiskey, and
payback; Robert Mitchum, James Cagney, and 'sensitive sons of bitches'; the mentality of actors and growing
up to be a man; his first audition; drunken behavior; epic drinkers; and much, much more."
"“Don’t be too sure I’m as crooked as I’m supposed to be. That kind of reputation might be good business.”—Samuel Spade, private investigator
“Spade…is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been and in their cockier moments thought they approached.”—Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon first appeared in the pages of Black Mask magazine in 1929. Almost immediately it was acknowledged as not only a great crime novel but an enduring masterpiece of American fiction. Sam Spade, its protagonist, is the archetypal tough, cynical PI, “able,” as his creator explained, “to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent bystander or client.” And what a client!—the irresistible and treacherous femme fatale Brigid O’Shaughnessy.
Believing the book’s vividly drawn characters and memorable dialogue cry out for theatrical treatment, Blackstone Publishing commissioned this faithful dramatization by the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear, in which a brilliant cast brings to life all the excitement and suspense of Hammett’s original in the playhouse of the mind."
