{"id":31082,"date":"2022-11-23T07:21:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T12:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31082"},"modified":"2022-11-23T07:21:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T12:21:25","slug":"the-last-action-heroes-by-nick-de-semlyen-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31082","title":{"rendered":"THE LAST ACTION HEROES by Nick de Semlyen is Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3V3ia4b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z112322lastactionheroes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"755\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3V3ia4b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops and Feuds of Hollywood&#8217;s Kings of Carnage<\/a> by Nick de Semlyen looks like something many of us will want to check out.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the lowdown&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The behind-the-scenes story of the larger-than-life action stars who ruled &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s Hollywood\u2014Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Jackie Chan, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Dolph Lundgren, and Jean-Claude Van Damme\u2014and the beloved films that made them stars, including <em>Die Hard, Rambo,<\/em> and <em>The Terminator<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Last Action Heroes opens in 1990, at the Cannes film festival, where Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone finally forged a truce. After years of bitter behind-the scenes combat\u2014Stallone once threw a bowl of flowers at Schwarzenegger\u2019s head; the body count in Schwarzenegger\u2019s Commando was increased to \u201chave a bigger d*** than Rambo\u201d\u2014the world\u2019s biggest action stars had at last formed a friendship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In The Last Action Heroes, film journalist Nick de Semlyen charts their wild, carnage-packed journey from enmity to friendship. He also reveals the personal stories of the colorful characters who ascended in their wake, from Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal, to Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan. But as the \u201880s rolled on, the era of the invincible action hero who used muscle, martial arts, or the perfect weapon to save the day started to fade. When Jurassic Park trounced Schwarzenegger\u2019s Last Action Hero in 1993, everyone knew that the glory days of these macho men&#8211;and the vision of masculinity they celebrated&#8211;were officially over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drawing on candid interviews with the action stars themselves, plus their collaborators, friends, and foes, The Last Action Heroes is a no-holds-barred account of a period in Hollywood history when there were no limits to the heights of fame these men achieved, or to the mayhem they wrought, onscreen and off.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If this sounds like something you&#8217;d enjoy,<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3V3ia4b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> pre-orders are available now<\/a>.\u00a0 The book drops June 6, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to @popcornwithafork for the head-up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops and Feuds of Hollywood&#8217;s Kings of Carnage by Nick de Semlyen looks like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31083,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31082\/revisions\/31083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}