Set mostly in the depraved Hollywood of the 60s though the 90s but with multiple national and worldwide excursions for film shoots, love affairs and drug deals, this tell-all provides an unexpectedly candid look at a struggling actor's transition from a wild man with a dream to a sensitive if unconventional parent with a dream.
Dammett studied with the likes of Lee Strasberg and Sam Peckinpah; appeared in 53 films and TV shows, such as "Lethal Weapon," "National Lampoon's Class Reunion," "Hill Street Blues," "Starsky and Hutch," and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents;" and partied with Lou Reed, Axl Rose, Andy Warhol, Keith Moon, Alice Cooper, Liza Minnelli, Frank Sinatra, 14-year-old Drew Barrymore, George Carlin, David Lee Roth, Deborah Harry, the Ramones, Talking Heads and more.
He played Pong (the first video game) with John Lennon, and then Lennon, temporarily exiled from NY by Yoko Ono and lubed with coke and whiskey, poured out his legendary heart to Dammett.
Dammett towed his young Red Hot Chili Pepper with him through a torrent of drug and sex-fueled parties, auditions and business deals in Hollywood, New York and London. It's an exhilarating, exhausting and elegiac journey. It had a profound and ineffable influence on Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Anthony.
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