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In Beinhart's wacky satirical thriller, Hollywood and the GOP stage the Gulf War in order to salvage George Bush's reelection campaign.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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The creator of the Tony Cassella p.i. stories (Foreign Exchange, etc.) turns to political satire with a breathtakingly nasty premise: Operation Desert Storm was not only staged for TV but was a piece of Hollywood entertainment drafted and choreographed by filmmakers. Joe Broz, of Universal Security (U.Sec.), is offered a perilously off-the-books job by dazzling Hollywood star Maggie Krebs: lay the groundwork for a $750,000 breach-of-contract suit against RepCo, the talent agency that owns both her and hot director John Lincoln Beagle, by finding out the real reason--not the illness the agency's selling- -that Beagle was abruptly pulled off and the project aborted. Hopelessly smitten with Maggie, Joe (``I'm an authentic American hero. Really'') signs on, only to find that U.Sec. is already in the game- -and not kidding around: they've bugged Maggie's place, they're tailing Joe, they're willing to kill Beagle's inoffensive librarian when Joe lures him into a meeting. What kind of movie would justify such fanaticism? A war movie, as we've already realized--a movie whose concept brainsick Machiavellian Lee Atwater drafted on his deathbed as just the ticket to resuscitate George Bush's faltering image. As Bush and Jim Baker trade gorgeously plausible malapropisms (``Talk about nitty-gritty and cutting through to the nuts of the matter. When Lee Atwater is passing, it's hardball''), Joe maneuvers to get the goods on RepCo head David Hartman and U.Sec.'s Melvin Taylor, Joe's boss, so that even if he can't avert the war, he can help Maggie get her hands on that golden parachute. Joe's plots against the totalitarian conspirators wind down to routine melodrama. The real smart bombs here are Beinhart's diabolical vignettes of the totalitarian alliance of the Oval Office and the entertainment industry (``Who are we going to war with?'' ``I don't know. It's just in development''). Think of a left-wing P.J. O'Rourke, or a Stanley Kubrick production of 1984. What a terrific movie this book is never, ever going to make. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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In Beinhart's wacky satirical thriller, Hollywood and the GOP stage the Gulf War in order to salvage George Bush's reelection campaign.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
The creator of the Tony Cassella p.i. stories (Foreign Exchange, etc.) turns to political satire with a breathtakingly nasty premise: Operation Desert Storm was not only staged for TV but was a piece of Hollywood entertainment drafted and choreographed by filmmakers. Joe Broz, of Universal Security (U.Sec.), is offered a perilously off-the-books job by dazzling Hollywood star Maggie Krebs: lay the groundwork for a $750,000 breach-of-contract suit against RepCo, the talent agency that owns both her and hot director John Lincoln Beagle, by finding out the real reason--not the illness the agency's selling- -that Beagle was abruptly pulled off and the project aborted. Hopelessly smitten with Maggie, Joe (``I'm an authentic American hero. Really'') signs on, only to find that U.Sec. is already in the game- -and not kidding around: they've bugged Maggie's place, they're tailing Joe, they're willing to kill Beagle's inoffensive librarian when Joe lures him into a meeting. What kind of movie would justify such fanaticism? A war movie, as we've already realized--a movie whose concept brainsick Machiavellian Lee Atwater drafted on his deathbed as just the ticket to resuscitate George Bush's faltering image. As Bush and Jim Baker trade gorgeously plausible malapropisms (``Talk about nitty-gritty and cutting through to the nuts of the matter. When Lee Atwater is passing, it's hardball''), Joe maneuvers to get the goods on RepCo head David Hartman and U.Sec.'s Melvin Taylor, Joe's boss, so that even if he can't avert the war, he can help Maggie get her hands on that golden parachute. Joe's plots against the totalitarian conspirators wind down to routine melodrama. The real smart bombs here are Beinhart's diabolical vignettes of the totalitarian alliance of the Oval Office and the entertainment industry (``Who are we going to war with?'' ``I don't know. It's just in development''). Think of a left-wing P.J. O'Rourke, or a Stanley Kubrick production of 1984. What a terrific movie this book is never, ever going to make. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Joe Broz, David Hartman, United States, John Lincoln Beagle, Teddy Brody, George Bush, Mel Taylor, New York, John Wayne, Magdalena Lazlo, Sun Tzu, Sakuro Juzo, Bambi Ann, World War, Center Screen, White House, Universal Security, Los Angeles, Ray Matusow, Ronald Reagan, Viet Cong, Air Force One, Saudi Arabia, The Woo, James Baker New!
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HE BELIEVE THAT he was Machiavelli incarnate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Joe Broz, David Hartman, United States, John Lincoln Beagle, Teddy Brody, George Bush, Mel Taylor, New York, John Wayne, Magdalena Lazlo, Sun Tzu, Sakuro Juzo, Bambi Ann, World War, Center Screen, White House, Universal Security, Los Angeles, Ray Matusow, Ronald Reagan, Viet Cong, Air Force One, Saudi Arabia, The Woo, James Baker New!
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- Foreign Exchange by Larry Beinhart on 5 pages
- No One Rides for Free by Larry Beinhart on 4 pages
- War Movies by Jay Hyams on page 152, page 153, and page 180
- Marine Corps by Taylor on page 138, page 340, and page 342
- You Get What You Pay For by Larry Beinhart in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- The Contours of American Politics: An Introduction by Jon Roper on page 140, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Librarian: A Novel by Larry Beinhart in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- The Self We Live By: Narrative Identity in a Postmodern World by James A. Holstein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Self We Live By: Narrative Identity in a Postmodern World by James A. Holstein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- How to Write a Mystery by Larry Beinhart in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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