{"title":"Gregor Collins","description":"Gregor Collins is an author, speaker, actor and connecter. He started his career in Los Angeles as a reality TV producer, before shifting gears to producing and acting in independent films. His writing and acting have been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Publishers Weekly, Cinema Editor Magazine and others, as well as on Off-Off Broadway stages across New York, where he lived until 2020, when he moved to Arlington, Virginia. Aside from his work as a contributor, he created and curates Humans in My Phone, a micro-documentary series featuring the humans in his phone. He is also the author of The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann. gregorcollins.com","products":[{"product_id":"the-accidental-caregiver-part-ii-saying-yes-to-a-world-without-maria-altmann-hardcover","title":"The Accidental Caregiver Part Ii: Saying Yes to a World Without Maria Altmann - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter publishing his memoir about caring for Holocaust survivor Maria Altmann during the last three years of her life, actor Gregor Collins thought that was the end of the story. Little did he know, losing Maria and sharing her with the world through his book was just the beginning.\u003cbr\u003eThe Accidental Caregiver, Part 2 chronicles a new journey, one that Collins embarked on just as accidentally as he did the first. With his unplanned sequel, he shares with readers how his life was once again transformed-but this time, without Maria.\u003cbr\u003eWith the same candor, grace, and raw vulnerability, Collins charts his course to far away lands like Australia and Mexico where he introduces Maria to other Holocaust survivors, then on a cross-country trek to New York, where he finds himself a caregiver once again, this time to Maria's cousin Ruth, while he presents his book as a stage play to packed audiences. With each vivid new tale, Collins offers readers a fearless glimpse into his mind, which, though sometimes dark, is always honest. In the end, with Maria as his muse, Collins says yes to life and love in a way he could never have predicted-and wouldn't have had any other way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67950524989663,"sku":"9781982246068","price":51.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/zu4ZY7XryM9781982246068.webp?v=1791589888"},{"product_id":"the-accidental-caregiver-how-i-met-loved-and-lost-legendary-holocaust-refugee-maria-altmann-paperback","title":"The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Accidental Caregiver: Part II will be released in Spring 2020!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe life story of Maria Altmann inspired the 2015 film \"Woman in Gold\" starring Helen Mirren.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen thirty-two-year-old actor Gregor Collins reluctantly interviewed for a job as a caregiver more out of a favor to a friend - he had no idea his life was about to change forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeconds into a chance meeting in 2008 with, it would turn out, a world-renowned Holocaust refugee named Maria Altmann, there was an unexplainable magic in the air - it felt as if they had already met. And Collins was suddenly thrown into a situation with which he had never before been confronted: caring for someone other than himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregor offers us a personal and unprecedented look at Maria over the three intimate years he cared for her - her thrilling escape from the Nazis, her fight and subsequent win in the landmark Supreme Court Case to return original Gustav Klimt artwork that belonged to her family in Austria, and the extraordinary people she met along the way. But the real heart of the story transcends mere historical fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a refreshingly raw portrayal of their unlikely and unbreakable bond, imbued with humorous, candid anecdotes about his mercurial relationship with Hollywood, Gregor takes us on a deeply emotional journey of how he opened up his heart to a 92-year-old woman in need - and in turn experienced the love he had been searching for his entire life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67990795256031,"sku":"9780985865405","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/t21a71vBq29780985865405.webp?v=1791960665"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/gregor-collins.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}