Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life

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When he stopped being offered major roles in the early 1990s, he thought about retiring from acting but instead decided to reinvent himself as a character actor. I felt like I was getting some privileged insight from a grandfatherly figure who sat me down to take me through his life, both personally and professionally. melds candid anecdotes and a master class on acting into an upbeat, unpretentious, and star-studded memoir.

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Michael Caine says he's been extremely lucky in life, and perhaps that's true, but he's also worked--worked very hard--to be where he is today. When he was Kirsty Young’s castaway guest in 2009, his career had spanned over four decades, with his credits including Alfie, The Italian Job and Educating Rita, and had secured two Oscars in the process. Most of the crew then escape the building disguised as football fans, while Croker leads the rest out of the city in the Minis, going over stairs, pedestrian streets, rooftops and sewers.The training sessions shown for the Mini drivers were at the Crystal Palace race track in Upper Norwood, South London. The film's plot centres around Cockney criminal Charlie Croker, recently released from prison, who forms a gang for the job of stealing a cache of gold bullion being transported through the city of Turin, Italy, in an armoured security truck. Caine looks back across his career, describing the, good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful - in what appears to be a fairly candid review of anecdotes of his life.

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Alicia Menendez speaks with Patricia Mazzei of The New York Times and Politico reporter Marc Caputo about the midterms. The "Chinese" plane delivering the gold to Turin is a rare Douglas C-74 Globemaster, of which only 14 were built and only four passed into private ownership.Although Caine enjoys the attention and perks of being a star, he cautions actors against acting like divas—e. I might have given the book four stars for a bit of repetitiveness, but I found I wasn't qualified to credit Michael Caine's life with fewer than five. I don’t want to screw up today’s work and tomorrow’s worrying about yesterday’s and I don’t want to focus on what it looks like on the outside when the performance has to come from within me. The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power.