From Publishers Weekly
Subtitled Tales of Movie Dreams and Easy Money, this collection of short stories is narrated by a former journalist who, we learn in the first entry, was advised by a senior editor to test his fictionalizing talents in Hollywood instead of on a N.Y. daily. One by one, we meet the people he encounters, starting with a gathering of would-be celebrities in Schwab's and ending on location in a poverty-stricken section of the Ivory Coast that provides a vivid contrast to life and times in Tinseltown. In between are penetrating glances at some familiar types. Sheila is a production executive who proves she's heir to the drive as well as the name of her movie-mogul grandfather. Maury and Eugene are agents who grew up on the Grand Concourse and whose last project is auctioning the rights to Maury's death from his hospital room. The Senator begins an affair with a movie star while courting movie money, knowing he'll be paying dues in Hollywood forever. Sex, money and power, one character points out to him, are what Hollywood is about. They're all here in these fond, funny and touching stories that expose the human being behind every Hollywood stereotype. Screenwriter Freeman also wrote The Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Screenwriter/journalist Freeman casts a wryly acerbic eye on Hollywood and its denizens in these 17 stories about lifewhich is short for power, wealth, eccentric foibles, sex and drugs, and, of course, moviesin this former dirt-streeted cowtown. To be sure, Freeman deals in typesthe producers, agents, actors, hangers-onbut unlike most Hollywood writers, he avoids the stereotypes in his portraits; each is an inventive, amusing, genuinely original character. Freeman's style is easygoing, seemingly effortless, and sharply observed, and the result is one of the most enjoyable books in this overwrought genre. Hartley wrote that "The past is another country"; well, so is Hollywood, and Freeman is its most delightful chronicler to date. David Bartholomew, NYPL
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
