BUY THE BOOK HERE The comedic memoir, "The Wrath of Blonde" is about the pop icon from Star Trek II, Laura Banks, who moves from Kansas to California in search of fame and fortune and frolic. "Go for your dreams and make a mess of things," is her motto. It is a celebrity-fueled, laugh-out-loud Hollywood ride in the early eighties, from comedy clubs, to films, and bad hair days. Through a deeply personal and highly comedic perspective, Laura shares her stupid mistakes and huge near missus and still loves every minute of her life along the way. It's about an outsider, an underdog, who passionately throws herself into living her dreams and sorts it all later. "Find a passion and go live it," Laura says, "knowing that you are going to make a mess of things." We cannot live a happy life without a passion, self-expression and the courage to fail and get mad later.
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Laura Banks is an actor, stand-up and four-time author with Simon and Schuster. Her comedic USA Bestseller, "Breaking the Rules" sold over 250,000 copies nationwide. In "Star Trek II, the Wrath of Khan", Laura played the navigator of a spaceship with Khan. She starred in action pictures produced by Roger Corman, had her own TV series on SyFy entitled "Inside Space" where she interviewed Carl Sagen. TV appearances include ABC World News, SyFy, Prime, Netflix, Comedy Central, USA Network, Fox News, MSNBC, Good Day L.A, Good Day New York, TYRA, and VH-1.
Her memoir shares on-set stories while making “Star Trek II, the Wrath of Khan”. “The Wrath of Blonde” starts with Laura as a child in Kansas, enthralled with the idea of Hollywood. Ultimately the journey is about her search for love, fame and frolic.
Ms. Banks shares her life’s journey of countless run-ins with celebrities like Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty, who pursued her as a duo. It’s a true-to-life “Mrs. Maisel”. She started out performing improv with Whoopi Goldberg at The Comedy Store in San Diego, then befriending Robin Williams and Andy Kaufman. In New York City we find her doing stand-up comedy at the Comedy Cellar and Improvisation in New York City, the two best clubs in the U.S.
But escaping Kansas was not easy. There was an alcoholic mother and the suicide of a brother suffering from schizophrenia. To get by, Laura posed nude in a magazine, cocktail waitressed on Sunset Boulevard and almost turned to stripping and prostitution. In spite of the seriousness of the content, it stays laugh-out-loud funny.
Book Review: “Laura Banks delightful and cheeky new memoir, “The Wrath of Blonde”, is a humorous, self-deprecating and emotionally honest story of her brush with fame while piloting the Reliant in “Star Trek II, the Wrath of Khan”, almost getting blown up in the jungles of the Philippines for Roger Corman, striking out with Warren Beatty and failing to fall under the hypnotic, Svengali-like spell of Jack Nicholson among others, including a short-lived, but torrid romance with the Enterprise’s charismatic skipper himself. Banks’s Hollywood story as she navigates the pinnacles and pitfalls of showbiz regales her readers in this fun, breezy read. – Mark A. Altman (writer/producer, Free Enterprise; showrunner, Pandora; host, Inglorious Treksperts)
Listen to her one-on-one interview with William Shatner on her podcast, (LINK HERE—>)Your Hidden Power - #182 - Will Co-Host Laura Banks Be Going On Tour With William Shatner? | Listen Notes
Link to Laura’s Acting Work HERE.
Other Books written by Laura Banks Below
Breaking the Rules:
USA Today Bestseller with over
250,000 copies in print
Last-ditch tactics for landing the man of your dreams, A Parody
Buy this book and start breaking the rules. We'll show you how to: Be needy, clingy and whiny with Mr. Right Now. Ransom his power tools to get his attention. Repair used blenders for fun and profit. And, there's more. Recommendations include: Move your stuff into his apartment as quickly as possible. Married men take you to nicer restaurants. Carry an answering machine in your purse. If he has a pulse, you have a date. Spill your guts before you spill your wine, and gab until his ears bleed!
Love Online
Singles, there actually is a way to meet that special person in a comfortable, relaxed environment where you can have honest, forthright conversations. And you don't even have to leave your home. The alternative to pickup bars, and rude come-ons is Love Online.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Laura is shown here with Ricardo Montalban in a Paramount promotional photo for the hit film. In the film, she was Khan's Navigator.
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Wheels of Fire (1984)
The Future is now. There are no rules and no place to hide from the deadly Highway Warriors who ravage the roads in machines of destruction. Laura had a starring role in this film as the ravishing she-warrior Stinger.
Demon of Paradise (1987)
Hunters become the hunted when illegal dynamite disturbs the age old slumber of a carnivorous lizardman. Resort owner Angela Cahill, joins forces with Sheriff Keefer to save tourists from the beast's path of death. Laura stars as Angela in this horror/thriller.
Retreads (1988)
Laura stars as a nuclear scientist that is being held by terrorists. And her only chance for survival is the Retreads.
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