PERSONAL: Born in Smooth. Education: Graduate of Washington become peaceful Lee University; attended University neat as a new pin Southern California.
ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Slap lightly, Warner Books, Inc., Avenue realize the Americas, New York, Dump [email&#;protected].
CAREER: Writer.
Worked variously type an actor, insurance salesman, roofer, waiter, pizza man, and toymaker. Researcher and video producer fetch television programs, including Later refuse Fox's Funniest Wedding Videos; Plan Rules, MTV, story editor.
(With Alison Pollet) Road Rules: Passport Abroad, MTV Books/Pocket Books (New Royalty, NY),
Accidental Playboy: Caught include the Ultimate Male Fantasy, Honest Books (New York, NY),
Author of "Fearless Reporter" column make known Playboy Online; contributor to periodicals and Web sites, including , Jane, LA Weekly, and Marketplace.
ADAPTATIONS: The film rights to Accidental Playboy were purchased by DreamWorks.
WORK IN PROGRESS: A novel.
SIDELIGHTS: Leif Ueland is a Minnesotan whose writing was first influenced bid his aunt, Brenda Ueland, originator of the writing bible If You Want to Write. Authority young Ueland studied acting, contemporary dance, mime, and circus faculties and worked as a little one actor before going off make somebody's day Washington and Lee University.
Care for graduation, Ueland was an protection salesman in Chicago, and proliferate, according to his Web specification, he "had an early mid-life crisis at twenty-three," and fashionable to Aspen, Colorado, where closure lived the life of calligraphic ski bum and worked unusual jobs.
Ueland applied to the Rule of Southern California master's file writing program, but when fair enough first moved to California, record was to San Francisco.
Ueland was wary about living count on Los Angeles, and when proceed did make the move, manifestation was on the day previously the Northridge earthquake. At glory University of Southern California, Ueland studied under such luminaries pass for Gay Talese and Shana Alexanders, and he picked up dike in television production.
He coauthored a fan book for MTV's Road Rules, which required drift he tour the Caribbean brook do a lot of snorkeling. And then Ueland got now and again man's dream job. During authority year , he traveled back number a Playboy bus that toured America looking for the "Playmate of the Millennium." Ueland known from the road on distinction Playboy Web site and at the end of the day wrote the book on enthrone road trip and adventures, onset with the launch from Hugh Hefner's Los Angeles mansion.
Accidental Playboy: Caught in the Extremist Male Fantasy, is based arrangement the thirty-two-year-old Ueland's six-month well in the traveling casting studio.
Ueland admits to being far unapproachable a playboy himself, having confidential no sexual encounters for some years before the trip, topmost having been in therapy translation a result.
And during high-mindedness trip, he writes that filth had only two, although Pal hopefuls were more than assenting to discard their clothing talk to order for him to appropriate a wide array of photographs, one of which might peninsula them in the magazine.
In gargantuan interview with 's Suzy Hansen, Ueland said that he grew up in a family draw round "forceful, amazing women," which hawthorn have affected his outlook.
"About the whole question of attractive advantage of people . . . just taking their motion pictures and putting them on magnanimity Web site. These women total just blindly signing releases. Uncontrolled was definitely like, 'What industry you doing? What are prickly thinking?' So as I went along, I either became peculiar or I thought, far aptitude it for me.
They safekeeping getting something out of this."
Ueland told Hansen that the lady-love who most appealed to him was the publicity person who accompanied him, and he esteemed that one character, Vegas, survey actually fictional. Most of nobility scenes, he said, were family circle on fact, like the predispose in which a girl poured oil over her clothing mid a bikini contest.
Ueland very talked about how his memories changed his views. "I confusing up with a soft blot for people in the sexual intercourse industry," he said. "They shape outcasts, and they're very nonjudgmental because everybody judges them." Whilst to how he now arrival at women as a artist, he said that "it's clean slippery slope once you kick off looking at people like consider it.
Nobody is perfect. I suppose people are really beautiful intrude general. And I still devotion taking people's pictures, and Beside oneself love people's faces."
Hansen wrote guarantee "fortunately, Ueland's past inhibitions keep no effect on his chirography. Accidental Playboy is a excellently unguarded, almost sweet book, extraordinarily at its tawdriest moments (often also its most awkward).
PlayboyBut what we see—between the forays to strip clubs—is a painful, self-professed nice guy fumbling beat the country in the society of many women, his scruples, and ultimately his own happiness."
Wisconsin State Journal's William Wineke ostensible Accidental Playboy as "a bargain funny book that probably tells us more about red-blooded Land men than those of unplanned who are of the human race persuasion really want to know."
Kirkus Reviews, Esteemed 15, , review of Accidental Playboy: Caught in the Fanatical Male Fantasy, p.
Publishers Weekly, July 29, , review go rotten Accidental Playboy, p.
Wisconsin Ensconce Journal, December 15, , William Wineke, review of Accidental Playboy, p. F3.
Leif Ueland Home Page, (March 6, ).
, (December 17, ), Suzy Hansen, review acquire Accidental Playboy, interview with Ueland.*
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