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Shadows & Light by Gary Kent

Trade Paperback – Happy Cloud Media – 2018 – 424 pages

Stuntman, writer, director and movie outlaw Gary Kent has worked with filmmakers for over forty years. Starting as stunt double for Jack Nicholson in Ride the Whirlwind, Kent parlayed his wit and his fearlessness into a career that witnessed the transformation of American cinema.

Shadows & Light celebrates a time not so long ago when the world was exploding and someone had to say something, show something that was real, that mattered.

Legendary filmmakers like John Cassavetes, Monte Hellman, Richard Rush, and their small army of cohorts, who changed the way American films were made and opened the doors to a cultural revolution that reverberates throughout the world today. Featuring stories with Jack Nicholson, Brian DePalma, James Caan, William Shatner, Ann-Margret, Frank Zappa, Duane Eddy, Sonny Barger, and many, many more.