Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me

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Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me by Ralph Macchio is published on 18 October by Penguin Random House Macchio's writing has a great lightness of touch & this makes for a very easy & engaging read. There are plenty of delightful stories about making The Karate Kid & the film's success upon release & how it affected his future film roles. One excellent things he mentions (& I won't spoil it here) is his arrival at an airport to a crowd of excited, cheering fans. He wasn’t kidding about looking young: the man has scarcely a wrinkle and whenever the digital feed turns slightly fuzzy, it occurs to me he could pass for someone half his age. He is sitting in front of a computer in his family home on Long Island in New York, using a room that used to be his study, he says, before he stripped it of movie posters and made it a guest room for his ageing in-laws. He chats with a pleasing, throaty, New York accent, tipping about excitedly in an office chair and making its hinges squeak when he gets into a conversational flow. He wears the T-shirt of a California vineyard, gifted to him by one of his best friends, Stan, who was Macchio’s body double on The Karate Kid all those years ago. a b Schweiger, Daniel (December 1996). "Partners in Crime". Film Score Monthly. Vol.1, no.76. p.17.

I don't think so. First of all, in the "Cobra Kai" world — which is kind of a karate soap opera; it's like a telenovela — [for] every door that closes, another one opens. It's by design. The writers wanted this season to come in for a landing where everything felt okay, but they teed up a lot of international elements: the Sekai Taikai and what that is, Kim Sun-Yung and who he is and was. There's a lot teed up to burst the dam again, but it's at a place that it would be interesting.Shooting took place on location in Beulah, Mississippi as well as Hollywood. Blues legend Frank Frost makes a cameo. I bought myself this book for Christmas. It's signed. This make me happy because Ralph Macchio is one of my girlhood crushes. He played Johnny in "The Outsiders" which shaped my reading life when it was released. I read the book fourteen times and watched the movie just as many. Macchio responds, “Spending more time with the family, spending more quiet time, which will happen because of the ebbs and flows of the business. Cobra Kai is not going to be out forever. I don’t know if I’m going to be a bestselling author or not - hopefully! Maybe there is more of that in my future and just enjoy the time with my wife and my kids, and just once again, stopping and enjoying the blessings that I have.”

I love The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai, and Macchio seems like a down-to-Earth nice guy. This book proves that. I would have preferred a full autobiography about his career, but I realize that The Karate Kid is a very large part of it. While The Outsiders, My Cousin Vinny, and even Teachers are all briefly mentioned, I would have liked to have heard more about these films and just his life in general. BUT--the book says right there in the title, "The Karate Kid and Me." He tells you up front what the focus is going to be. The middle school writing drove me INSANE and it just pained me to listen. That hurts me to say it but it’s true. Beginning in 2018, Macchio reprised his role as Daniel LaRusso in Cobra Kai, an action comedy-drama series that began on YouTube Red and later moved to Netflix. Cobra Kai begins in the fall of 2017, and re-examines the " Miyagi-Verse" narrative from Johnny's point of view, beginning with his decision to reopen the Cobra Kai karate dojo, and the rekindling of his old rivalry with Daniel. [25] Along with William Zabka, he is also a co-executive producer of the series. [1] [26] Memoir [ edit ]I think the blues still speaks to kids today", said Ry Cooder, who performed the music with Steve Vai. "It's so old that it's new." [7] At a celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Karate Kid at the Japanese American National Museum in 2014, Macchio said that the yellow 1947 Ford convertible his character Daniel receives from Miyagi in the first film was sitting in his garage. [24] Speaking of that original success, you write in the book about successful producer Jerry Weintraub, who was such a larger-than-life personality. You mention how he introduced you as “the kid who bought me a couple of my houses.”