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Because He's Jeff Goldblum

The Movies, Memes, and Meaning of Hollywood's Most Enigmatic Actor

Travis M. Andrews

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E P Dutton & Co Inc
21 June 2021
An irreverent yet deeply researched biography about the always offbeat, suddenly meme-able and wildly popular actor.

An irreverent yet deeply researched biography about the always offbeat, suddenly meme-able, and wildly popular actor

When did you first encounter Jeff Goldblum? Maybe as a deranged killer in his 1974 screen debut inDeath Wish? Maybe as a cynical journalist in 1983sThe Big Chill? Or a brilliant if egotistical scientist-turned-fly in 1986sThe Fly? Perhaps as the wise-cracking skeptical mathematician in 1993sJurassic Park? Or maybe you're not a film buff but noticed his face as part of one of the Internet's earliest memes. Who knows?

Whenever it was, you've probably noticed that Goldblum has become one of Hollywood's most enduring actors, someone who only seems to grow more famous, more heralded, more beloved through the decades, even though he's always followed his own, strange muse. The guy primarily plays jazz music these days, but is more famous than ever. Actor, pianist, husband, father, style icon, meme. Goldblum contains multitudes, but why? What does he mean?

The Washington Post's Travis M. Andrews decided to find out. And so he set out on a journey through Goldblum's career, talking to directors like Lawrence Kasdan and Philip Kaufman, colleagues like Harry Shearer and Billy Crudup, and pop culture experts like Chuck Klosterman and Sean Fennessey, to get to the bottom of this whole Goldblum thing. And then he took what he learned and he wrote this book, which is titledBecause He's Jeff Goldblumand is the best thing written sinceThe Brothers Karamazovand slightly easier to follow. But you should already know that. In thisnew semi-biography, semi-rumination, and semi-ridiculous look at the career of Goldblum, Andrews takes you behind the scenes of his iconic movies, explores the shifting nature of fame in the twenty-first century, and spends far too much time converting Goldblum's name into various forms of speech.

Want to hear how Goldblum saved a script supervisor from an amorous baboon? Or what he would write on the mirror after taking showers when he was a teenager? How about his feelings on various brands of throat lozenges? (That one could be an entire book unto itself.) Then this is the book for you!
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Imprint:   E P Dutton & Co Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 160mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   499g
ISBN:   9781524746032
ISBN 10:   1524746037
Pages:   320
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Travis M. Andrewsis a featureswriter for theWashington Post's Style sec-tion, where he coversthe Internet, pop culture, and the ways we live now. Previously he was an associate travel and culture editor forSouthern Livingand a contributing pop culture reporter for Mashable andThe Week. He has also written forTime,Esquire,GQ, and theAtlantic, among others. He lives in Washington, DC, where he acquiesces to the every wish of his puppy, Stevie Nix, and misses his native New Orleans.

Reviews for Because He's Jeff Goldblum: The Movies, Memes, and Meaning of Hollywood's Most Enigmatic Actor

Jeff Goldbum is the only man in Hollywood capable of selling himself as a heinous human/insect hybrid, a leather jacket-clad mathematician/dinosaur expert and the Grandmaster of the Avengers universe. Travis M. Andrews's Because He's Jeff Goldblum is a brilliant, fascinating deep dive into Goldblum's life and career, revealing that he's even smarter, funnier and weirder than we dared to hope. -- Andy Greene, New York Times bestselling author of The Office Quirky, chatty, off-the-cuff, self-mocking, and fantastically enjoyable, Travis M. Andrews' Because He's Jeff Goldblum is like a book-form version of the actor and cult hero himself. It's like an extended conversation with the fantastically strange leading man from Jurassic Park and Independence Day, incorporating everything from the acting philosophy of Sanford Meisner to the competition for the world's biggest Goldblum fan. It is inside-out biography, pop-culture criticism with pizzazz, and it is, like the actor himself, nothing but sheer pleasure to encounter. --Saul Austerlitz, author of Generation Friends


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