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Audible provides the highest quality audio and narration. Paige johnson is used to cleaning up after her boss, hollywood su. Barely four years after winning an oscar, charlie has sunk into the ranks of hollywood bottomfeeders reduced to living in his nephews pool house, kiting checks and taking the bus to his weekly debtors anonymous meeting, where he meets a mysterious excia agent who proposes to resuscitate charlies foundering career in the beyond surreal world of reality tv. Theres a touch of the roman a clef to the book, though not so much that it suffers from the rapid dating inflicted by the vicissitudes of popularity in the moviemaking business. Peter lefcourt born 1946 is an american television producer, a film and television screenwriter, and a novelist. Novels about hollywood, the entertainment industry, or being famous score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. His first novel, the deal, was a cult favorite in hollywood, has been adapted into a movie, and is one of ten books that john gotti reportedly ordered from jail. Eleven karens, the woody, abbreviating ernie, di and i, the dreyfus affair and the deal. Examples of hollywood novels include the day of the locust by nathanael west, what makes sammy run by budd schulberg, the last tycoon by f. The deal by peter lefcourt overdrive rakuten overdrive.
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