Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #168974 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Synopsis
The extraordinary story of a member of the A-team. Warning: This book may change the way you look at doctors and health forever. This book will challenge your preconceived ideas about looking at illness, taking responsibility and about actors - particularly Dirk Benedict, star of several hit television series and author of this work. Initially, "Confessions Of A Kamikaze Cowboy" tells the fascinating story of Dirk Benedict's journey from the big sky country of Montana to the hustle and hype of Hollywood. It also vividly describes his personal odyssey of self-exploration, discovery and growth - from struggling actor to celebrity, from meat eater to vegetarian, from cancer victim to cancer victor. "Confessions Of A Kamikaze Cowboy" is brilliantly written - insightful, witty, humorous and always challenging - a tour de force. You will come face to face with many of the newly discovered truths in Dirk's life. While you may not agree with everything "Confessions Of A Kamikaze Cowboy" has to say, it will make you reconsider a great many truths in your own life.

Dirk Benedict has starred on Broadway, in films and in several hit television series, including The A Team and Battlestar Galactica. When he's not making a movie or writing screenplays, he pilots his own airplane, composes music, plays the piano and trombone, goes fishing or just relaxes with his two sons. Dirk and his sons live in Montana.

Customer Reviews

A salutary warning to America
Of all the biographies I have read, this one left me with such a lasting impression that I felt compelled to write this review.

Most biographies tend too follow the same formula - "I was born at......" "I did this...." I was under the impression that Dirk Benedict's would fall under the same heading. Except the classification is Autobiography/Health. In truth, it should really be classified as Health/Autobiography. For its in health, that we discover Dirk's journey from being a meat, eggs and milk three times a day actor from Montana, to a brown rice, vegetarian Macrobiotics convert, who claims to have suppressed (if not cured) his prostrate cancer! This, in essence is the true message of his autobiography, although, thankfully Dirk doesn't fill it with too much eastern mysticism!

Along the way, he attacks both Hollywood mentality, and the American medical profession. In particular no punches are pulled in his thoughts about the vast amounts of money spent on cancer research with little to show for it.

It was apparent that this book is aimed at an American audience. Ordinarily, us Europeans would read it, put it down and laugh contentedly into our flat tummies, but time and fast food chains have put paid to that. Yes, it's a book that claims that most Americans will become extinct within a few generations (!) but it's also, I think, a warning to the rest of the world that we could easily go the same way if we don't modify our eating habits. It would be nice to have a Macrobiotic restaurant on every street corner, and the world to be totally vegetarian, but I'm afraid that would take a paradigm shift in our mentality and morality, before the world came to look on animals just as pets and not food.