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The Importance of Being Ernest: The Life of Actor Jim Varney by Justin Lloyd is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Ernest, the lovable blue-collar buffoon, was a staple of pop culture in countless commercials, nearly a dozen movies and an award-winning Saturday-morning TV show. Today, millions of fans still mourn the loss of actor Jim Varney, who portrayed Ernest and who died at age 50 in 2000 of cancer. Ernest fans are finally getting the biography they have been waiting for in this comprehensive work by Jim's nephew, Justin Lloyd. "The Importance of Being Ernest: The Life of Actor Jim Varney" traces Jim's journey from a child in Lexington, Kentucky, with dreams of being a stage and film actor to becoming an iconic entertainment figure in the tradition of Charlie Chaplin's "The Little Tramp."The book is based on numerous interviews with family members and intimates of Jim who have never spoken publicly before about what drove the actor and how he overcame many personal and professional obstacles to attain success. But with that success came a price: Jim...
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Justin Lloyd
- Publisher
- Justin Lloyd
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Biography, Entertainment Biography
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