A Ponderance during Lunch

[gnomi]

Is age 40 too young to be writing an autobiography? I mean, if you're a world leader and have been so from age 12 or whatever, sure, go ahead and write an autobiography. But 40? That seems a bit young to me.

(Not that by any means that'll stop me from buying the book, mind you. Just a ponderance.)

Comments

[fadagaski.livejournal.com]

Can't be as bad as releasing a 'Greatest Hits' album two years after your first single.

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Yes, it does feel awfully young to me.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

Remember, he's 40 years old in *Hollywood* (or the UK equivalent) years. That's, like, ancient.

[caryabend.livejournal.com]

And his English Professor sister (as opposed to expatriate [I think] Scottish Professor sister) helped him write it. That's gotta count for something, too.

[saxikath]

Yes, that seems young.

(And I clearly fail at geekhood, because I had no idea who he was.)

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

by showbiz standards that's practically ancient ;D

[lensman.livejournal.com]

Okay, this is Capt'n Jack... He's only 40 in this time line... :-)

On the serious side yeah that is young, but he's obviously got ego to spare (He says that there is a lot of him in his Character, and I think this might help prove it).

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

didn't kenneth branagh write his autobiography when he was ridiculously young too? but yeah, forty seems to be pushing it a little. even if you are john barrowman.

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

Hey, if Paris Bloody Hilton can have an autobiography, why not?

Striking while the iron is white hot is never a bad thing, IMO.

[sdelmonte]

For an actor who toiled in obscurity for years? Yes, I think he hasn't got much that needs saying. Then again, most actors never will.

However, if the book is lessq about "I am so great" and more about "I am opnlny gay and even though I was born in the 60s and am famous there is still far too much homophobia" then it might have something worth noting to it.

[aunt-becca.livejournal.com]

yes, but he's so pretty.....

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

He could put "Vol. 1" on it. . .

[badgerthorazine.livejournal.com]

It's a bit young, but then I picked up a title for mine back as a teenager... Almost would start writing it if I wasn't so dang busy trying to heal so I can go back to my fiction writing. :P

[lisafeld.livejournal.com]

Look, he knows he can market a book now, when he's the lead actor on one show and moonlighting on at least two others, and he's probably wise to know that in showbiz, that cache probably won't last.

What had me in stitches was that autobiography of the nine-year-old Irish sognbird a couple of years back. Come on, now, you've only been self-aware for five or six years. Write your short essay on "How I met the Pope on my summer vacation" and leave the book for when you've got an actual life arc to cover.