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Ben Patrick Johnson (Author)
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July 1, 2005

“Covers all the basic food groups that nourish Hollywood: sex, power, dreams, and deception. What a great read.” —Steve Kmetko on In and Out in Hollywood

It used to be trendy; now it’s just comfortable. And it’s the perfect spot to recover from Saturday night while preparing for Monday morning. Each Sunday, Third and Heaven, a little diner in West Hollywood, California, plays host to four friends who over breakfast counsel, console, encourage, mock, outrage and otherwise make each of their lives worth living. Freddy is an entertainment-show host who is dating a Broadway star with a crystal meth addiction. Claire is a twice-divorced osteopath who is compulsively amorous with men she meets in the supermarket. Ritchie is a personal trainer who dreams of being an actor and struggles to reconcile with his Sicilian family. And Joshua, as a publicist to has-beens and nobodies, attempts to spin press mentions out of thin air. Over the course of a year, their friendship remains the one constant as porn stars are dated, Thanksgiving dinners are ruined, stalkers are served restraining orders, exes are spied on, gowns are assembled in late-night sewing bees, apartments are painted and bail is posted. No matter what happens, each of them knows the other three will be there, waiting to dish in the corner booth at Third and Heaven.

Ben Patrick Johnson is one of the top voice-over actors in Hollywood. His is the signature announcer voice of Entertainment Tonight, Judge Joe Brown and Fox Sports’ You Gotta See This! His voice has been heard in hundreds of trailers for films such as X-Men, Anger Management, The Pianist, City of God and many others. He is the author of In and Out in Hollywood and lives in Los Angeles.


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Ben Patrick Johnson is one of the top voice-over actors in Hollywood. His is the signature announcer voice of Entertainment Tonight, Judge Joe Brown, and Fox Sports' You Gotta See This. His voice has been heard in trailers for films such as X-Men, Anger M

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Alyson Books; First Edition first Printing edition (July 1, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1555838715
  • ISBN-13: 978-1555838713
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,843,324 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Third and Purgatory, October 17, 2005
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Ben Patrick Johnson is a voice over announcer for movies and television. He ought to keep those vocal chords bathed in warm salt water so he can hang on to his day job because I don't see much of a future as a novelist. This story is about four rather uninteresting characters and the losers they hook up with. It is slow and repetitious. It is also full of typos, spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. The lazy writing and sloppy editing are best exemplified by the Freddy and Justin characters who first meet on the Fourth of July then celebrate their "two month anniversary" on Thanksgiving! Huh? The ending is so sappy and unbelievable that it is a fairy tale. But, then, maybe that's where Johnson gets it right because this is, after all, a fairy tale.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Trite and Dull, July 12, 2005
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This guy got a lot of fanfare, but for what? Third is a whimsical, soulless, and downright wasteful span of near 300 pages covering the very same archetypal figures that pervade the Hollywood circuit. Compared with his picture, Third speaks of nothing but flat, dull images meant only to captivate at surface level. A few chapters in, you're swept, but in that rushing-rapids, I forgot the life jacket kind of way because, in the end, you really don't develop a care for meth addictions or compulsive sex -- and just when I thought I really could get into that family of origin, the Muscle Mary falls ridiculously short. Dear Ben, you're a good looking guy, but you should stick to the weights. Stop hawking your bod as a sign of your talent and leave the careful craft to those who hunger for it, not for some guy who needs something to do between electronically digitized voiceovers. Thanks.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Third and Heaven: A Review, August 15, 2005
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The author does a great job of getting you interested in the lives of the characters fairly early in the book. It symbolizes the need for friends in one's life & reinforces that we are not alone in the world.
I found particularly interesting were the Freddie/Julian & Joshua/Ritchie storylines. I think that the reader will easily identify similar characteristics in their own circle of friends and in the 4 main characters.
Definitely a good read. It has a good pace to it!
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