The unofficial Bruce Willis biography

I have just started the first biography that I can remember reading. Bruce Willis: The Unauthorized Biography by John Parker. It’s quite strange reading a biography after reading mostly fiction because in this biography, every person mentioned in conjunction with Willis’s life or anything that might’ve influenced him is named.

Normally when reading fiction people are named if you need to remember them because they have a part in the story, otherwise you just gloss over their existence.

“Bruce called into a bar on his way home to drown his sorrows after yet another failed audition. The barman was sympathetic and poured him an extra shot at no charge.”

In this book, they are all named for their 1/10th of a second of fame.

“Bruce called into The Thirsty Actor, a bar located at the time on the corner of Greene and Thompson Streets in Soho, on his way home to drown his sorrows after yet another failed audition at the Paramount Theatre for a part as an extra in the Greenwich Village Community High School’s version of The Caravan directed by the enthusiastic principal Jimmy Jones. The barman, Ed Porter who’d worked in the bar for three years since leaving high school was sympathetic and poured him an extra shot of Bourbon, Bruce’s poison during the late 70’s.“

For example!