By Curtis Armstrong
Risky company. Revenge of the Nerds. useless. Moonlighting. Supernatural. American Dad. New woman. What do all of those video clips and tv indicates have in common?
Curtis Armstrong.
A mythical comedic moment banana to a litany of significant stars, Curtis is eternally cemented within the public mind's eye as Booger from Revenge of the Nerds. A classically proficient actor, Curtis begun his significant 40-year profession on level yet stepped forward swiftly to movie and tv. He was once typecast early and it proved to be the simplest factor which can have occurred.
But there’s more to Curtis’ tale than that.
Born and bred a nerd, he spent his early years among Detroit, a urban so nerdy that the be aware used to be coined there in 1951, and, improbably, Geneva, Switzerland. His youth and early maturity used to be spent essentially among the covers of a e-book and indulging his nerdy obsessions. It used to be merely whilst he chanced on his precise calling, as an actor and unintended nerd icon, that he stumbled on actual happiness. With whip-smart, self-effacing humor, Armstrong takes us on a impossible journey—one nerd’s hilarious, usually touching upward push to the center. He began his existence as an outcast and matured into…well, an older, a little paunchier, expectantly wiser outcast.
In Hollywood, as in existence, that counts as profitable the game.
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