Boy On A String

From Cast-Off Kid to Filmmaker Through the Magic of Dreams

By: JOSEPH JACOBY, Martin Scorsese (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 18 June 2020 | Edition Number 2

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JOSEPH JACOBY, Director-Screenwriter-Producer-Novelist, and NYU Film School classmate of Martin Scorsese, began his career as a writer-creator of game shows and as a professional puppeteer. Jacoby, who went on to become a pioneering filmmaker, has until now never revealed that most of his early years were spent as a ward of the state. He survived a childhood shadowed by his mother's unpredictable and dangerous behavior, which forced friends to commit her. Jacoby then grew up in seven foster homes in Brooklyn, and two institutions.Yet, propelled by the power of his dreams, Jacoby went on to realize his passion for the moving image and made his first theatrcial motion picture at the age of twenty-seven.

This is the moving story of what a person can achieve, without regard to so-called reason, facts, or the odds. It will be cherished by everyone concerned about neglected children, and by readers searching for an inspirational true story.

Industry Reviews

"Joe was the kind of friend you could count on - he knew the score, and you knew he would always be straight with you...As I read this frank, touching book, I was astonished to learn that Joe was in and out of foster homes and various institutions from the time he was seven until his eighteenth birthday. That experience -- that range of experience --- must have have played a big part in his solitude, and in his worldliness."

- MARTIN SCORSESE - From his Introduction

"Joseph Jacoby combines a compelling narrative of parental abandonment with a vivid account of his experiences as an independent filmmaker in New York in the 1960s and '70s -- a uniquely 20th century story recalling the glory days of exploitation on forty-second Street and the struggles of a maverick in a dying Hollywood studio system."

- RON MAGLIOZZI, Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modrn Art.

"Engrossing offbeat...account of Jacoby's lonely childhood and how his imagination led him into the world of film and television"

- LIBRARY JOURNAL

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