MAKE LOVE THE BRUCE CAMPBELL WAY

MAKE LOVE THE BRUCE CAMPBELL WAY by Bruce Campbell
By Darlene Laws

There’s an old joke about what would happen if you put a psychoanalyst and a man with a Napoleon complex into a rubber room for 30 days…would they come out quoting Freud or would both have their hands inside their shirts? That’s sort of the premise behind Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way. Let’s say you take a B-movie actor (let’s say it’s Bruce Campbell) and give him a role in a Mike Nichols film starring Richard Gere and Renee Zellweger. Would Bruce give an Oscar-worthy performance or would Richard Gere learn to pick up chicks in bars? Follow the adventures of Bruce as he researches his role and plays Spy vs. Spy with the fan-boy turned evil movie exec. Thrill to the drama of Bruce, a fan, and the fan’s mother as they stand off the authorities. Laugh at the shameless name-dropping. And the movie? Is it nominated for a zillion Golden Globes or does it go direct to video?

Underestimate Bruce Campbell at your peril. He may not, somehow, have ever managed to make it into Richard Gere territory, but he’s sharp as a razor. Following that often-repeated advice to “write what you know”, he has created a book that just gets funnier and more absurd as it rolls along. You almost expect the Three Stooges to come popping out of the pages. This is a quick, fun read.