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04125aim a2200433Ka 4500 001 CDA0B870AA0511EE99E4BB4527ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240103010037 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 230806s2024 nyu s 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0593824970 020 $a 9780593824979 (sound recording) 040 $a TEFOD $c TEFOD $d SILO 084 $a BIO002010 $a PER004000 $a BIO002010 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Williams, Billy Dee. 245 10 $a What have we here? $h [electronic resource] : $b Portraits of a life. $c Billy Dee Williams. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a New York : $b Books on Tape, $c 2024. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file) : $b digital 306 $a 00:00:00 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Narrator: Billy Dee Williams. 520 $a A film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades—a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, from Brian’s Song to Lando in the Star Wars universe—unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed. Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira Gershwin/Kurt Weill production where Williams ended up feeding Lenya her lines. He studied painting, first at the High School of Music and Art, with fellow student Diahann Carroll, and then at the National Academy of Fine Art, before setting out to pursue acting with Herbert Berghoff, Stella Adler, and Sidney Poitier. His first film role was in The Last Angry Man , the great Paul Muni’s final film. It was Muni who gave Billy the advice that sent him soaring as an actor, “You can play any character you want to play no matter who you are, no matter the way you look or the color of your skin.” And Williams writes, “I wanted to be anyone I wanted to be.” He writes of landing the role of a lifetime: co-starring alongside James Caan in Brian’s Song , the made-for-television movie that was watched by an audience of more than fifty million people. Williams says it was “the kind of interracial love story America needed.” And when, as the first Black character in the Star Wars universe, he became a true pop culture icon, playing Lando Calrissian in George Lucas’s The Empire Strikes Back (“What I presented on the screen people didn’t expect to see”). It was a role he reprised in the final film of the original trilogy, The Return of the Jedi, and in the recent sequel The Rise of Skywalker. A legendary actor, in his own words, on all that has sustained and carried him through a lifetime of dreams and adventure. Cover Credits: Cover photograph: Courtesy of Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC Cover design by Jenny Carrow COURTESY OF LUCASFILM LTD. LLC STAR WARS: The Empire Strikes Back (c) & TM Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC. 538 $a Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. 650 17 $a Nonfiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a African American Nonfiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Biography & Autobiography. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Performing Arts. $2 OverDrive 655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local 700 1 $a Williams, Billy Dee. 856 40 $u http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=251&titleID=9830646 $z Click to download here. 856 4 $3 Image $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/%7B1D2C3610-BAFB-438E-8B5B-B59267BBFC8C%7DIMG100.JPG $z Large cover image 856 4 $3 Thumbnail $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/%7B1D2C3610-BAFB-438E-8B5B-B59267BBFC8C%7DIMG200.JPG $z Thumbnail cover image 856 40 $3 Click for more information $u https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1B0wAAAA2Z/products/1d2c3610-bafb-438e-8b5b-b59267bbfc8c $x 1370 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20240103010130.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CDA0B870AA0511EE99E4BB4527ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search