One of my favorite books grow­ing up was Bring on the Empty Horses by David Niven, an auto­bi­og­ra­phy of his life in Hol­ly­wood, full of amus­ing sto­ries about Hol­ly­wood greats and their lives off cam­era. My mother had it on her book­shelf. Niven was an accom­plished but not overly famous actor in his day, but he knew a lot of peo­ple and had a long career, and thus had a lot of sto­ries. I have a the­ory, hav­ing read this piece by Wil Wheaton, that he might be this era’s David Niven. He might have to meet more famous(er) peo­ple. Any other candidates?

 

2 Responses to Wheaton the new Niven?

  1. mark says:

    From what I know of Wheaton, he’d prob­a­bly pop a chubby at the thought of being com­pared to Niven in any way. Does any­one say “pop a chubby” any­more? Did any­one ever? Alas.

    Also, what con­sti­tutes being “overly famous?”

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