Revenge of the Nerd: Or . . . The Singular Adventures of the Man Who Would Be Booger
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Curtis Armstrong. (2017). Revenge of the Nerd: Or . . . The Singular Adventures of the Man Who Would Be Booger. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Curtis Armstrong. 2017. Revenge of the Nerd: Or . . . The Singular Adventures of the Man Who Would Be Booger. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Curtis Armstrong, Revenge of the Nerd: Or . . . The Singular Adventures of the Man Who Would Be Booger. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2017.

Curtis Armstrong. Revenge of the Nerd: Or . . . The Singular Adventures of the Man Who Would Be Booger. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2017.

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     CURTIS ARMSTRONG was born in Michigan in 1953. He divided his early years between Detroit—a town apparently so nerdy that the word "nerd" was coined there in 1949—and Geneva, Switzerland, which by comparison, wasn't nerdy at all. Following a childhood spent mainly between the covers of books, Armstrong discovered the theatre.
     He studied at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rochester, Michigan, which led to a forty-plus year acting career that shows no signs of slowing. After eight years of stage work in New York and around the country, Armstrong was cast in his first film, Risky Business, starring Tom Cruise. It was the beginning of a string of classic comedy films and television shows, including Better Off Dead, One Crazy Summer, TV's Moonlighting and, most significantly, Revenge of the Nerds, in which he played the iconic role of Booger.
     Since then Armstrong, a nerd icon himself has appeared in dozens of films and TV shows including, recently, Supernatural and New Girl. He co-created and co-hosted the hit comedy-reality show King of the Nerds, which brought his nerd narrative full circle. He is married to writer Elaine Aronson, and has one daughter, Lily.

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Risky Business. Revenge of the Nerds. Better Off Dead. Moonlighting. Supernatural. American Dad. New Girl. What do all of these movies and television shows have in common?
Curtis Armstrong.
A legendary comedic second banana to a litany of major stars, Curtis is forever cemented in the public imagination as Booger from Revenge of the Nerds. A classically trained actor, Curtis began his incredible 40-year career on stage but progressed rapidly to film and television. He was typecast early and it proved to be the best thing that could have happened.
But there's more to Curtis' story than that.
Born and bred a nerd, he spent his early years between Detroit, a city so nerdy that the word was coined there in 1951, and, improbably, Geneva, Switzerland. His adolescence and early adulthood was spent primarily between the covers of a book and indulging his nerdy obsessions. It was only when he found his true calling, as an actor and unintentional nerd icon, that he found true happiness. With whip-smart, self-effacing humor, Armstrong takes us on a most unlikely journey—one nerd's hilarious, often touching rise to the middle. He started his life as an outcast and matured into...well, an older, slightly paunchier, hopefully wiser outcast.
In Hollywood, as in life, that counts as winning the game.

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     June 1, 2017
     Armstrong, a career character actor with a healthy resume, self-identified as a nerd long before the term was cool. Growing up in Detroit and Geneva, Switzerland, in the 1950s and '60s, Armstrong discovered a deep, abiding love for books and the theater. He also suffered at the hands of school-yard bullies and often employed comedy to escape their torments. He initially decided to pursue theater as a career, but film and TV proved to be Armstrong's bread and butter. In the second half of his memoir, he reminisces about his days on the sets of movies and TV shows, drawing, in part, on the journals he kept at the time and conversations with friends. There's plenty of on-set gossip to be found about such occurrences as Tom Cruise and Rebecca de Mornay's affair on the Risky Business set or Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepherd's famous feud on Moonlighting. But Armstrong's love of literature and comedy also makes his account of his boyish struggles down-to-earth, relatable, and funny, which will have readers cheering for him throughout.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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Curtis Armstrong.
A legendary comedic second banana to a litany of major stars, Curtis is forever cemented in the public imagination as Booger from Revenge of the Nerds. A classically trained actor, Curtis began his incredible 40-year career on stage but progressed rapidly to film and television. He was typecast early and it proved to be the best thing that could have happened.
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