By Barry Livingston
A precise Hollywood survivor, Barry Livingston is without doubt one of the few baby stars who became early luck right into a lifelong occupation. As "Ernie" at the Nineteen Sixties sit-com My 3 Sons—which additionally featured his real-life brother Stanley as "Chip"—Barry develop into immediately recognizable for his horn-rimmed glasses and goofy appeal. 5 many years later, after engaged on television exhibits like Mad males and Desperate Housewives, and in function motion pictures like Zodiac and The Social Network, Barry Livingston is one actor who is aware The significance of Being Ernie. . .
In this interesting and humorous memoir, Barry unearths his so much unforgettable anecdotes: engaged on set with Fred McMurray, Ozzie and Harriet, Lucille Ball and Dick Van Dyke. using a limousine with Elvis Presley. attempting to upstage Ron "Opie" Howard. Even taking pictures a Superbowl beer advertisement with Brad Pitt. at the start, Barry's lazy eye and horn-rimmed glasses approximately derailed his profession, getting him kicked off his first significant movie starring Paul Newman. ultimately, his "nerdy" glance grew to become his largest asset, touchdown Barry a ordinary function on Ozzie & Harriet and a standard half on My 3 Sons. Fifty years later, Barry remains to be going strong—from the degree and small display to to featured movie roles contrary Adam Sandler and Robert Downey, Jr.. Like such a lot Hollywood actors, Barry skilled a few magnificent highs and lows alongside the best way, yet he by no means gave up. "I've been round part a century," he affirms. "And i am not going away." this is often how one baby celebrity beat the chances and survived the darkish part of the Hollywood dream factory—with appeal, wit, selection. . .and enormous horn-rimmed glasses. this is often The value of Being Ernie.
Barry Livingston has been a qualified actor on degree and display for greater than fifty years. top recognized for his function as "Ernie" at the long-running television software, My 3 Sons, Livingston keeps to seem usually in characteristic motion pictures and tv indicates. he's married with young ones, and lives in Los Angeles.
Praise For the significance Of Being Ernie
"This wryly advised saga of a kid famous person who miraculously kept away from the crash-and-burn destiny of such a lot of of the once-famous. . . an interesting story of the weird lifetime of a funny, modest, and observant guy. Barry Livingston offers a frank and humorous story of television, videos, and relatives life." —Brent Maddock, co-author of Tremors and Short Circuit
"For a toddler megastar, he is virtually basic. This negative child needed to sit down on William Frawley's lap; we are fortunate he isn't on a roof with a rifle. . .. Barry is a kind of infrequent baby stars who grew as much as turn into an comprehensive grownup actor. Having logged fifty years in exhibit enterprise, operating with all people from Lucille Ball and Jack Benny to Brad Pitt and Robert Downey, Jr., he is bought a superb tale to tell." —Paul Jackson, manufacturer Charmed and Sliders.
"I have recognized Barry Livingston considering he used to be 9 years previous. He consistently made me giggle. Now he is stored me conscious interpreting his really good autobiography. there is a lot of expertise in these measurement 8 shoes." —Gene Reynolds, director of TV's M.A.S.H.and Promised Land
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