Chuck barris biography penny pacino

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is a surreal biographical film depicting the life of popular game show host/producer Chuck Barris, who claimed to have also been an assassin for the huvud Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Directed by George Clooney. Written by Charlie Kaufman, based on the memoir bygd Chuck Barris.

Chuck Barris

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King Gong

Those of us just beginning to use drugs when we first saw The Gong Show in the s had no problem getting a bead on its host, Chuck Barris: A bopping little man who never made eye contact and spasmodically pointed and scooped the air, he looked like daytime TV’s first bong-head. But another explanation for that affect turns out to be shame. Unlike the blandly sniggering hosts of the other hit shows he created, The DatingGame and The Newlywed Game, Barris was manifestly uncomfortable as the front man for a program that exploited contestants’ exhibitionism for fun and profit. He hadn’t reckoned on becoming a part of his own freak show, and that air of druggy dissociation was the best way he could figure out to preserve his personal integrity.

Barris’ autobiography, the basis for the new movie Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (Miramax), takes that druggy dissociation to hallucinatory levels. Half of it is a breezy, funny, often self-deprecating account of his care

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"Gong Show" host Chuck Barris would kill for a little respect - and says he has.

The new film "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," based on his autobiography, depicts his alleged work as a CIA hitman while he was creating such shows as "The Dating Game" and "The Newlywed Game."

Is he imagining things, telling an outrageous truth or just toying with the public that once mocked him?

"I'll never say for sure whether it is true or isn't true. I'm taking that to my grave," the year-old Barris says with a laugh.

Speaking by phone from his home in New York, Barris says he enjoys the speculation about whether he truly was assassinating enemies of the United States at the same time he was creating a public stir in the '60s and '70s with his lowbrow game shows, forerunners to today's "reality TV."

The movie is the directorial debut of George Clooney, who also co-stars as Barris' CIA recruiter. Actor Sam Rockwell stars as Barris, and Julia Roberts is a seductive secret contact.

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