Hey! It's That Guy! [Paperback]

Tara Ariano (Author), Adam Sternbergh (Author)

Book Description

Release date: September 1, 2005

Who is that guy?
 
You know the one: the actor who always shows up in movies as the rumpled police detective, or the stern but ineffectual high school principal, or the wiseguy mobster. What is that guy’s name? And where have you seen that woman before?
 
You’ll find them all in this exhaustive and entertaining guide to character actors whose faces you recognize but whose names you can never quite recall. Find their head shots in the photo section, or seek out their most common habitat—the hospital, the precinct, the suburbs, the courtroom, and more—to determine their identities. With Hey! It’s That Guy! you can impress your friends and confound your enemies by identifying everyone from Jeffrey Jones (the dean of students from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) to Jennifer Coolidge (Stifler’s mom in American Pie) to Patrick Cranshaw (the really old guy from Old School) to Jane Adams (Niles’s plastic surgeon wife on Frasier).
 
With Hey! It’s That Guy! in your hands, you’ll never again wonder where you’ve seen that cop (or nurse, or executive) before!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Tara Ariano is a writer, editor, and Web site producer. She and writer Adam Sternbergh founded Fametracker.com, the Farmer’s Almanac of Celebrity Worth, a Web site that has received rave reviews from Entertainment Weekly, Variety, Playboy, Time, and many more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Quirk Books (September 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594740429
• ISBN-13: 978-1594740428
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.8 x 6.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #894,449 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Reference Guide March 6, 2006

By drebbles TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

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"Hey! It's That Guy!" is a neat little guide to character actors. It has thirteen chapters devoted to various types of roles (the courtroom, the hospital, the office, and the precinct, for example) and features pictures and descriptions of actors that are best known for playing those types of roles. There are also various very helpful icons used throughout the book such as award winner, straight to video, villain and deceased. Also included in the portrait of each actor is a timeline with his or her most famous roles listed.

For the most part, this is a very useful guide for looking up actors that look familiar. The descriptions of each actor are humorous but informative. There are several useful indexes in the back of the book and best of all a section with the pictures and names of all the actors featured in the book. Unfortunately, the book is on the small size; I would have preferred a larger book, with more roles listed for each actor. And some of the pictures are movie stills and not very clear, which is shame since the pictures should be the strong point of the book.

All in all, movie and trivia buffs will enjoy this reference book.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Hey, it's those people we see from time to time, March 14, 2009

By JPGRfan

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This is a pretty good biography (I use that word loosely) ...style book.

It's done in a witty, wisecracking way, but, after reading it like that for the first 10 actors, you start wanting maybe a date of birth, where are they from, maybe interesting trivia about their life.

What we mostly get is the persons name, what type of characters they usually play, and a few movie titles
or tv shows they were in.

The best thing about this book is a face goes with a name,
and yes, some of the humor is good, it could have been better with much more information.

I was going to give it 3 stars, but, because of all the faces that finaly get names to go with them, and some of the TV and movie info that goes with those faces,
I give it 4 stars.

It's still worth buying for those character actor fans in book land, of course you'll have to look else where for more information on these character actors.

15 of 21 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Where's the rest of the info February 23, 2006

By Bookworm

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This book was interesting in that you finally had a name with some familiar faces, but it was a little too irrevant. I wanted more info on the actors themselves not just some wisecracks that the authors thought were funny. I think the authors were a little too impressed with their own wit. I like having a name with a face, but the authors could have gone further with backgrounds on the actors even using one page bios.