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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Terrific detective novel
Andrew Bergman, the director of "Honeymoon in Vegas" and the underrated "Striptease" was a novelist before his scripting/directing career took off and an excellent novelist at that. His detective is a Mensch forced to deal with McCarthy-era Hollywood, a few stiffs and screenwriters under the black list. Very genre but very good. A really funny...
Published on December 30, 2000 by brassmclean
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Beg to Differ
Future film director Bergman has an interesting idea here but completely fumbles it as New York dick Jack LeVine travels east to help an old friend and stumbles onto the beginnings of the Blacklist. Great idea, but LeVine's smug, "believably hard-boiled" narration is incredibly lame-o. The Hollywood characters are reasonably well-done, but LeVine is never believable,...
Published on July 1, 2005 by River Man
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Terrific detective novel,
By "brassmclean" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hollywood and Levine (Paperback)
Andrew Bergman, the director of "Honeymoon in Vegas" and the underrated "Striptease" was a novelist before his scripting/directing career took off and an excellent novelist at that. His detective is a Mensch forced to deal with McCarthy-era Hollywood, a few stiffs and screenwriters under the black list. Very genre but very good. A really funny encounter with Dick Nixon is hallucinatory. A small-hours tour of the Warner's Studio backlot western town unforgettable and the ending image echoes the best of Chandler. You'll want to read it again.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Beg to Differ,
By River Man (Studio City, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hollywood and Levine (Perennial Library, P 674) (Paperback)
Future film director Bergman has an interesting idea here but completely fumbles it as New York dick Jack LeVine travels east to help an old friend and stumbles onto the beginnings of the Blacklist. Great idea, but LeVine's smug, "believably hard-boiled" narration is incredibly lame-o. The Hollywood characters are reasonably well-done, but LeVine is never believable, just ridiculous. Try to imagine "The Sun Also Rises" being narrated by a private eye. Then move on to some other book!
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Hollywood and LeVine by Andrew Bergman (Hardcover - 1976)
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