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- Verlag: Playaway (Mai 2009)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1433274272
- ISBN-13: 978-1433274275
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,8 x 11,7 x 3 cm
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Fiftyish, his career down the tubes, ex-B-movie producer Charlie Berns is interrupted rigging his suicide device by his fresh-college-grad nephew sporting an unfilmable screenplay about Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone. Berns makes a "deal" and turns it into a terrorist action thriller ( Lev Disraeli--Freedom Fighter ) to star a just-turned-Jewish black superstar and to be filmed with blocked dinars in Yugoslavia. How Charlie gets back to square one, shooting the original script, involves Macedonian terrorists, a Japanese megacorporation, a Cannes-darling director who hates shooting dialog, a stuffy, bankable English actor (Jeremy Ikon), and lots of sljivovica . The plot goes soft in its last quarter, chiefly with a conventional love affair for Charlie and a (predictable) Oscar. The book is no The Loved One , but with its sharply delineated characters, this first novel is the wittiest, friskiest Hollywood satire to come off the freeway in several years. BOMC main selection; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 12/90.
- David Bartholomew, NYPL
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
- David Bartholomew, NYPL
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
From School Library Journal
YA-- Charlie Berns, a movie producer with nothing to promote, is literally saved when his nephew Lionel appears with a script in hand. His story, "Bill and Ben," dramatizes the historic rivalry between William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli, at least until the studio executives, actors, agents, and publicity departments get into the act. The plot is transformed into a terrorist movie starring a black actor as the black-belt, Israeli hero, now called Lev Disraeli. The deal keeps changing, and only Charlie knows the score. This is a racy, irreverent, hilarious poke at Hollywood and its denizens. The plot (of the book and the movie) moves cleverly and quickly, while the characters (in the book, not the movie) are believable. Four-letter words abound but fit naturally in the setting. Mature YAs interested in the movie industry will need no cues for laughs. --Judy Sokoll, Fairfax County Pub . Lib . , VA
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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A funny and literate satire
14. März 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
This was my first Lefcourt book. I was too cheap to buy the 11 Karens in paperback, so here I was looking at an old (1991) novel that I could buy and be happy with. As old fan of Hollywood books and novels, this ranks among the funniest I've read. It is a quick read, but more satisfying than the typical Hollywood farce. It tells you more than you wanted to know about Benjamin Disraeli. However, the satire does not get out of hand and somehow you could almost envision the plot twists actually happening in real life. The book is well written and funny as can be. I hope the reprint wins Lefcourt new fans. I'm one. The book really gets Hollywood. Bravo!
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Orginal, lighthearted take on the strange world of Hollywood
21. Dezember 1999
Format:Taschenbuch
Peter Lefcourt could've given us a savage portrayal of studios meanies. Instead he gives us a fun world of open minded, flexible studio outsiders who make anything and everything happen on the way to producing what is supposed to be a blockbuster film. You'll like the characters - they're a little sweet and goofy even though Lefcourt shows that they can be vapid. It's a lot of fun.
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Snarky, Biting & Outrageously Funny
19. April 2010
Format:Taschenbuch
I read this book when I needed a distraction. I was expecting a blowoff novel about shallow movie people but it's really so much better than that. Some stuff in here is achingly funny, so hilarious I had to put the book down several times because I couldn't read as I was laughing so hard. Lefcourt can really write and has a fantastic sense of humor. I want to read more of his books now.
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