Most famously the creator of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game and mastermind and host of the wildly popular and utterly bizarre Gong Show, Chuck Barris has produced some of the most innovative and groundbreaking television of our time.
Most recently the subject of a major motion picture Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, his best selling unauthorized autobiography brings to the podium the hilarious chronicle of his rise in Hollywood, his exploits as a CIA assassin, his triumphs as a best selling author, hit music writer and the real story of how he changed television forever.
A consummate entertainer, Chuck reveals another side of his talents with his debut release on Domo Records, Confessions of a Dangerous Singer.
Performing some of the most classic standards of our day, You're Nobody 'till Somebody Loves You, On the Sunny Side of the Street, Mr Sandman, Ain't Misbehavin' as well as Bob Dylan's Don't Think Twice, Chuck compliments this collections with his songwriting talents as well including his 1962 hit Palisades Park and Old Mother Trucker.
My name is Charles Hirsch Barris. I have written pop songs, I have been a television producer. I am responsible for polluting the airwaves with mind-numbing puerile entertainment. In addition, I have murdered thirty-three human beings.
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND is the story of a legendary showmans double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night.
Young, energetic, and focused on a top career in the growing television industry, Chuck Barris finds himself being followed by a suspicious character who quickly lures him into a secretive and dangerous world: that of a CIA operative. While Barris gains notoriety as a dynamic television producer creating such innovative and popular game shows as The Newlywed Game and the self-hosted The Gong Show he regularly executes assassinations for the United States government. As ratings rise, Barris incorporates his shows into his secret life: winning couples on The Dating Game find themselves shipped off to fabulous Helsinki and romantic West Berlin for their dream dates it isnt Paris, but it provides chaperone Barris a cover for his covert missions.
As Barris basks in the glamour of his two worlds - entertainment and espionage - his life begins to spiral out of control. He is torn between the woman who loves him and the mysterious woman of his fantasies. He receives mass criticism from the public who accuses him of contaminating the airwavesand he finds himself marked for death by a traitor operative.
Barris must regain control of his life. Both of them.
CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND stars Sam Rockwell in a breakthrough performance as the legendary Chuck Barris. The film marks the directorial debut of George Clooney, from a screenplay by Charlie Kaufman. Also starring are Drew Barrymore as Barriss girlfriend Penny, Julia Roberts as an international operative known as Patricia, Rutger Hauer as secret agent Keeler, and Clooney as C.I.A. agent Jim Byrd.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind now a major motion picture from Miramax films
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Thanks to you (and The Dating Game when I was little) I moved to California and loved it. I ADORED the Gong Show in high school. Had I lived in L.A. then, I'd have hung around that studio everyday.
I know we've only known each other four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week and the second day seemed like five days. And the third day seemed like a week again and the fourth day seemed like eight days. And the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed just like a day, and then you came back and later on the sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half. I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it.
Mr. Barris you are a Great Writer and an American Icon. I believe you to one of the greatest entertainers ever. thanks you for everything and I would love to drink a beer with you.
Thank you for the ad, Mr. Barris. It's an inspiration. If YOU can do it....well....you know the rest ! LOL I'm working on my show now. Building sets. It's so much easier with green screen and digital now. I don't understand why EVERYONE isn't doing shows? I'll send you a copy when I'm done. You tortured me with your shows for years, least I can do is make you sit through one of mine. Someday, I want to be rich like you and have lots of broads.
