Wheaton the new Niven?

Posted December 2, 2008 * Comments(2)

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 Comments so far

  1. mark on December 2nd, 2008

    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?"

  2. Danny on December 2nd, 2008

    You're not overly famous if, to have a book written about you, you have to write it yourself.

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