Edd Byrnes SIGNED Autobio TV Actor 77 Sunset Strip Alcohol Grease Photos HC/DJ

by Edd Byrnes

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Kookie No More by Edd Byrnes ,copyright 1996 - this hardcover book with dustjacket is in very good condition. Dustjacket in very good condition with no wear Book inside is in very good condition with minor reading wear - no other writing nor torn or missing pages -- Signed on 1st page "To Bill all the best Edd Byrnes 2000" Like a kleenex, Hollywood more or less tossed Edd Kookie Byrnes aside when no longer wanted. Following two or three teen-idol glory years, he was left to work the fringes, unable to give up the fast life or celebrity, hoping for another break that for even youthful has-beens seldom comes. Still and all, for a brief moment he was a center of worship and celebrity that very few ever experience. 77 Sunset Strip was a glamorous trend-setting series, the first non-western series I believe to be produced by a movie studio and certainly a welcome contrast to the blander boilerplate of the day. Kookie's character made the show. Teenagers loved him. His easy going smile and hipster lingo were infectious, turning the Sunset Strip into a kind of a Mecca for America's young people, even serving as a site for some of the Vietnam era's earliest clashes with police. Now Byrne's icon is known mainly to those of his own generation grown nostalgic about the past. From the harrowing early years before Hollywood, Byrnes (surprisingly) doesn't reveal much about the glory years, especially his sudden disappearance from the limelight. Although Edd was brutally honest about his ga

• Year: 1996
• Condition: Very Good

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