With Nails The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant

by Grant, Richard E.

• ISBN13: 9780879518288
• ISBN10: 0879518286
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-02-01
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

Ten years after its release, Withnail and I is a certified cult film, with the debauched and despairing character of Withnail still a beacon of inspiration to disaffected youth. Hollywood beckoned the film's star, Richard E. Grant, and he went. With Nails is Grant's brilliantly idiosyncratic, witty, and revealing account of the film business and life among its stars. From visiting sex shops in Paris with Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant to answering the Spice Girls' probing questions about his sex life during downtime on the set of Spice World to working with Hollywood's hottest directors - Robert Altman in The Player and Pret a Porter, Francis Ford Coppola in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Martin Scorsese in The Age of Innocence - Richard E. Grant has documented what it's like to Become a Film Star with a frank and funny intelligence.

Table of Contents

Withnail and I	1	(43)
Warlock	44	(21)
Henry and June	65	(37)
LA Stories	102	(34)
Hudson Hawk	136	(51)
More LA Stories	187	(17)
The Player	204	(25)
Dracula	229	(29)
The Age of Innocence	258	(27)
Pret a Porter	285	(24)
Epilogue	309	(2)
Afterword: Budget/No Budget	311