ROGEREBERT.COM: “UNFORGETTABLE PORTRAIT OF AN ACTOR WHOSE MOST SIGNIFICANT AND MOST CHALLENGING ROLE WAS OF HIMSELF!”
NOIR CITY MAGAZINE: “A 432-PAGE RAP SHEET! TEACHES US THAT TOXIC MASCULINITY IS REAL— AND IT’S SPECTACULAR!”
IT CAME FROM HOLLYWOOD: “OH MY GOD, THIS BOOK IS GREAT! WHAT ALL HOLLYWOOD BIOGRAPHIES ASPIRE TO, BUT FAIL!”
SOUTH WEST SILENTS: “A ROLLER COASTER RIDE OF BOOZE, RUN-INS WITH THE LAW, COURTROOM APPEARANCES AND JAIL TERMS!”
BRIGHT WALL/DARK ROOM: “THE BIOGRAPH THEATER, JOHN DILLINGER ON FILM AND THE EXCELLENT BOOK ON LAWRENCE TIERNEY!”
THE CRITERION COLLECTION DAILY: “A WELL-TOLD ACCOUNT OF THE NIGHT TIERNEY EXCHANGED BLOWS WITH UNIFORMED COPS!”
COLLIDER: IN TIERNEY BIO, “THE SHOCKING ‘SEINFELD’ INCIDENT THAT GOT ELAINE’S DAD ERASED FROM THE SHOW!”
RETREATS FROM OBLIVION, THE JOURNAL OF NOIRCON: “FACE OF A COP HATER,” AN EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT!
FILM INTERNATIONAL: LAWRENCE TIERNEY BOOK EXCERPT PREVIEW!
LEONARD MALTIN: “KEARNS HAS DUG DEEP AND CRAFTED A COLORFUL ACCOUNT OF THE ACTOR’S TUMULTUOUS LIFE & CAREER!”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: “HARD-BOILED! MOVING! A NICE DEPARTURE FROM THE TRADITIONAL HOLLYWOOD RAGS TO RICHES STORY!”
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN (WATERBURY CT): “AUTHOR PULLS NO PUNCHES IN LAWRENCE TIERNEY BIO!”
THE TIMES OF LONDON: “NEW BIOGRAPHY OF LAWRENCE TIERNEY REVEALS HOW HE ALMOST WON A RECURRING ROLE ON SEINFELD!”
AIR MAIL WEEKLY: “MR. BAD GUY: NO ONE WAS A BETTER THUG ON-SCREEN, OR OFF, THAN LAWRENCE TIERNEY!”
GOLD DERBY: “NEW BIOGRAPHY OF LEGENDARY HOLLYWOOD TOUGH GUY GENERATING HOLIDAY SEASON BUZZ!”
HOMETOWNS TO HOLLYWOOD: “FASCINATING! CAPTURES THE COMPLEX NATURE OF TIERNEY AND HIS IMPACT AS AN ACTOR!”
FANDOM WIRE: “DARKEST INCIDENT ON SEINFELD SET THAT MADE JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS DUB TIERNEY ‘A TOTAL NUTJOB’”
GOOD STORY NEWS: TIERNEY BOOK LAUNCH AND SCREENING AT THE AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE’S AERO THEATRE
LEGSVILLE.COM: THE TOUGH GUY RETURNS TO HOLLYWOOD (ANOTHER EXCLUSIVE BOOK EXCERPT)
GOLDDERBY.COM: “ENTERTAININGLY DETAILS THE LIFE OF THE PUGNACIOUS ACTOR! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!”
LIBRARY JOURNAL: “EVERY CRIME & MISDEMEANOR THAT TIERNEY WAS INVOLVED IN! A SAD LOOK AT A PROMISING CAREER DERAILED!”
NOIRCON 2022: BURT KEARNS & THE FRIENDS OF LAWRENCE TIERNEY ON OCTOBER 22
RETREATS FROM OBLIVION, THE JOURNAL OF NOIRCON: LAWRENCE TIERNEY: POVERTY ROW (FIRST EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK)
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: BOOK ABOUT ACTOR & NOTORIOUS BAD GUY LAWRENCE TIERNEY SET FROM WRITER-PRODUCER BURT KEARNS
THE CRITERION COLLECTION DAILY: “COMPLICATED ACTORS: TIERNEY WAS ‘THE REAL DEAL’!”
VENTS MAGAZINE: LAWRENCE TIERNEY — ONE OF THE ORIGINAL BAD BOYS OF HOLLYWOOD — SET FOR TELL-ALL BIOGRAPHY
GREASY KID STUFF MAGAZINE: AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR BURT KEARNS
LAWRENCE TIERNEY BOOK: RADIO, PODCAST & TV AUTHOR INTERVIEWS & FEATURES
16 December 2022
BOOK LAUNCH at the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. Sponsored by the Cinematheque & Larry Edmunds Bookshop, hosted by screenwriter-producer Larry Karaszewski.
