Angels & Demons: One Actor's Hollywood Journey

by Ray Stricklyn

This is the story of one actor's rise, fall and ultimate triumph, an intimate look at a life in Hollywood and in the theater. Stricklyn pulls no punches as he portrays the angles, and demons he met... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096496354X
• ISBN13: 9780964963542
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Belle Publishing
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A clear view

Ray Stricklyn was a master of stagecraft, and his one-man show on Williams was a work of great power and beauty. His book is a clear view of a life spent as an actor, offering his personal view of Hollywood long gone. It's a wonderful story, and simply told.

Demonic Angel

I love Ray.What else can I say? It's the truth. I feel as if I am the only one in the world who owns this book. Or at least I felt that way. You know what attracted me to this book? The words homosexual and gay. I am but a little girl so I can only be expected to snicker. But I could be mature if I wanted to. And I was. Very much. I felt like I was sitting in front of him the whole time and he was telling me his story. Parts were funny, parts were sad, but overall it was beautiful. Beautiful like the world. And like the world, you can touch it, you can feel it, you can love it. I was sad at the end. For it was then that I realized his time on earth was short. And I thought to myself, kill me now, for I am ready to die in the hands that wrote these beautiful words! If only I could tell him that.

A Must Read for Anyone Interested in Acting or Actors

Stricklyn has written a fable of his years as a theatre/Hollywood actor with a brutal honesty which I'm sure was at times painful to replay. Never having reached a superstar status Stricklyn nonetheless was considered a talented actor earning the respect of legends like Bette Davis and Gary Cooper. Unfortunately with the highs came the lows and Stricklyn comes clean with it and even finds the role of a lifetime in the process. I think that anyone even remotely interested in acting should read this as this is a realistic picture of the Hollywood game as having a talent doesn't mean guaranteed success and bio lovers will love this smoothly well written book sparkled with many of the author's remembrances of the stars.

Gossipy, well written...a page turner!

I read this in one sitting because I love the dishy Hollywood element. Lots of backstage stories about famous stars and written with candor. I wish there'd been more photos, but the ones that ARE in the book are fun and rare! Great summer reading.