{"id":276,"date":"2009-07-16T11:30:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2009-07-16T11:30:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T16:30:05","slug":"hunting-with-barracudas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/276","title":{"rendered":"Hunting with Barracudas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/hunting-with-barracudas-my-life-in-hollywood-chris-snyder-hardcover-cover-art.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-302\" title=\"hunting-with-barracudas-my-life-in-hollywood-chris-snyder-hardcover-cover-art\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/hunting-with-barracudas-my-life-in-hollywood-chris-snyder-hardcover-cover-art.jpg\" alt=\"hunting-with-barracudas-my-life-in-hollywood-chris-snyder-hardcover-cover-art\" width=\"200\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;\"><span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;\"><span lang=\"EN\">Snyder,  Chris.<span> <\/span><em>Hunting with  Barracudas:<span> <\/span>My Life in Hollywood with the  Legendary Iris Burton.<span> <\/span><\/em>2009.<span> <\/span>314p.<span> <\/span>Herman Graf Book\/Skyhorse Publishing,  $22.95.<span> <\/span>(978-1-60239-662-3).<span> <\/span>Gr. 11-12.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;\"><span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;\"><span lang=\"EN\"><span> <\/span>What happens when a young gay guy moves  from a small upstate New  York town to the glitzy world of a children\u2019s talent  agency?<span> <\/span>Snyder traces over a decade  of personal angst in a cutthroat world of fame-obsessed wannabe actors and an  unyielding, control-freak boss.<span> <\/span>The  author openly discusses not only his struggles with clients, including River  Phoenix, but also his attempt to personally deal with his gay sexuality and his  difficulty in finding intimacy beyond sexual experiences.<span> <\/span>Throughout the book runs a common theme  expressed by one of his statements:<span> <\/span>\u201cI didn\u2019t even accept me so how could I expect anyone else to accept  me?\u201d<span> <\/span>His entertaining experiences  in both Hollywood and in Greece, where he  operates a bed &amp; breakfast on an isolated island for a few months, are shown  in a frank and frequently humorous manner. <em>-Nel Ward<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snyder, Chris. Hunting with Barracudas: My Life in Hollywood with the Legendary Iris Burton. 2009. 314p. Herman Graf Book\/Skyhorse Publishing, $22.95. (978-1-60239-662-3). Gr. 11-12. What happens when a young gay guy moves from a small upstate New York town to the glitzy world of a children\u2019s talent agency? Snyder traces over a decade of personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[52,98],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-chris-snyder","tag-hunting-with-barracudas-my-life-in-hollywood-with-the-legendary-iris-burton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}