In 1963, Jimmy Wynn was the second most famous man in America. The comedian’s uncanny impression of the President made him a star. But when the genuine article died in a hail of bullets on a sunny afternoon in New Orleans, Jimmy’s career met a fate almost as grisly. What happened to the funny man afterward was a mystery no one cared to solve. Nearly 25 years later, Nathan Grant, an ambitious young journalist, discovers the trail Jimmy cut through the entertainment netherworld. He soon realizes this forgotten court jester may have played a very serious part in the country’s favorite conspiracy theory. Grant’s strange and increasingly dangerous odyssey takes him from a dingy New York record store to the showrooms of Las Vegas, a ghost town in the Mojave Desert, and even a dinner theatre in Niagara Falls. A dark comedy about the cost of fame, Jason Anderson’s Showbiz is the story of a man who became a punchline and a writer who is desperate to find out how the rest of the joke goes.
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Jason Anderson is a Calgary native who lives in Toronto. His arts journalism appears in the Globe & Mail, Toro, Saturday Night, Toronto Life and eye Weekly. His fiction has appeared in Taddle Creek and THIS Magazine. Showbiz is his first novel.
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Jimmy Wynn, New York, The Betsey, Las Vegas, Winston Sharpe, Los Angeles, James Saddlecreek, Danny Pantero, President Cannon, David Maher, Nevada Delegation, Lenny Bruce, White House, White Lines, Don Kirby, New Orleans, Dazzle Cuts, San Lupe, Manny Hudson, Maple Leaf Theatre, Nathan Grant, Barbizon Bay, Born Wild, Chester Howe, Jack Hunter New!
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Where any American can be BLAM! Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jimmy Wynn, New York, The Betsey, Las Vegas, Winston Sharpe, Los Angeles, James Saddlecreek, Danny Pantero, President Cannon, David Maher, Nevada Delegation, Lenny Bruce, White House, White Lines, Don Kirby, New Orleans, Dazzle Cuts, San Lupe, Manny Hudson, Maple Leaf Theatre, Nathan Grant, Barbizon Bay, Born Wild, Chester Howe, Jack Hunter New!
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- The Little Princess by Michael Wild on page 125
- The White House (Land of the Free) by Anne Hempstead on page 21
- Santa Barbara County by Automobile Club of Southern California on page 174
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