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Peter lefcourt born 1946 is an american television producer, a film and television screenwriter, and a novelist. The philadelphia inquirer the deal is an offer you should not refuse. Peter lefcourt is the author of six previous novels. Lefcourt s early career involved writing teleplays for primetime series such as cagney and lacey, scarecrow and mrs. Peter lefcourt peter lefcourt is a refugee from the trenches of hollywood, where he has distinguished himself as a writer and producer of film and television. The humor is usually dark and his books are much more characterdriven than plotdriven. Sep 28, 2019 they were sitting across from each other at the bar as lionel described his odyssey across the country in a trailways bus, gathering material, as he put it. The plot of the book and the movie moves cleverly and quickly, while the characters in the book, not the movie are believable. William h macy washedup hollywood producer charlie berns has mailed in his updated obit and is about to suck his mercedes tailpipe and fade to black when a miracle materializes. Ryans first film release of 2008 was the deal, a satirical comedy film based on peter lefcourt s 1991 novel of the same title about hollywood. Eleven karens, the woody, abbreviating ernie, di and i, the dreyfus affair and the deal.
This delicious novel feels like the love child of agatha christie and harold robbins and reads like a favorite old movie. Washedup hollywood producer charlie berns has mailed in his updated obit and is about to suck his mercedes tailpipe and fade to black when a miracle materializes. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read purgatory gardens. Its the most streetwise business book there is and the ultimate read for anyone interested in making money and achieving success, and knowing the man behind the spotlight. A sobering and relatively realistic account of life in the near future, the guardians is set in an england that has deliberately been divided into two mutually suspicious camps by a small group of dedicated men who. 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.
In 1991 lefcourt published the deal, a cult favorite in hollywood, was one of the ten books that john gotti reportedly ordered from jail, and was adapted into a movie starring william h. The picaresque novel the epistolary novel it is told through letters exchanged between different characters the domestic novel or novel of manners it portrays social behavior, domestic life, presents the conversation, the habits, the mentality typical of a historical period the historical novel it is set in a past period. Best selling books in the new york times hardcover advice, howto, and miscellaneous. This is a racy, irreverent, hilarious poke at hollywood and its denizens. It is a quick read, but more satisfying than the typical hollywood farce. As old fan of hollywood books and novels, this ranks among the funniest ive read.
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