Peter Lefcourt
Autor de The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story
Sobre El Autor
Peter Lefcourt is a screenwriter and the author of numerous novels including The Woody and The Dreyfus Affair. He lives in Los Angeles Laura J. Shapiro is a writer and producer living in Santa Monica
Obras de Peter Lefcourt
Danielle Steel's Fine Things [1990 TV movie] — Screenwriter — 7 copias
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1941
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Santa Monica, California, USA
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If you've never read any of this guy's books, go find The Dreyfus Affair. Then you can read Abbreviating Ernie. Although there is a murder trial in this story, it is not a mystery, it's a laugh riot. Ernie is a proctologist with some kinky sex preferences. In the midst of one with his long suffering, not real attentive wife, he dies of a heart attack, but doesn't - how do I say this delicately - slip out. Since he handcuffed her to the stove before starting (did I mention kinky?), her options were limited. But she can reach the electric knife. All of this is in the first part of the first chapter. It gets better and better and better.… (más)
I read this during my Kindle Unlimited binge, and K.U. Has some excellent books but also mediocre and worse. This one fits into the latter category. It's supposed to be hilarious. It's mildly amusing at best. It's not very P.C., but it's real failure is that it is boring. At least it was to me. There was too much explaining of background. And two bad guys are looking to hook up with one washed-up actress. Light and fluffy with a little bit of dark undertones, but not entertaining enough for me.
A charming if somewhat dated novel. I would have enjoyed it more if Randy hadn't been married; my sympathy for his wife and daughters made it hard for me to root for Randy and D. J. in the beginning.
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- Obras
- 11
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- 739
- Popularidad
- #34,365
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 23
- ISBNs
- 47
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- 2
The often entertaining (and often not) collection of brief memoirs edited by Peter Lefcourt and Laura J. Shapiro rarely describes how writers sold their first screenplays to the movies, and we can perhaps be glad of that. Most screenplays are collaborations, especially those involving beginners. Most such stories would probably sound pretty much alike.
Fortunately the 50-plus contributors interpreted the directions broadly, and the result is essays about a number of different kinds of "firsts."
Nat Mauldin, who would later write screenplays for Dr. Doolittle and The Preacher's Wife, tells of discovering he could write when he was called on to write an obituary for singer Ronnie VanZant, whom he had never heard of, that was well received.
Men in Black writer Ed Solomon remembers selling a joke to Jimmie Walker for $25 while in a comedy club, and enjoying the laughter when Walker performed the joke that very night.
Melville Shavelson tells of being sued by Mamie Eisenhower (his first lawsuit), who wanted to block the broadcast of a miniseries he wrote about Dwight Eisenhower's relationship with Kay Summersby, his driver, during World War II.
Anna Hamilton Phelan, who wrote Gorillas in the Mist, tells about getting her first agent. Gail Parent, who wrote comedy skits for Carol Burnett, describes what it was like earning the respect of male comedy writers. Charlie Hauck tells of getting his start after being encouraged by comedian Phyllis Diller. Peter Tolan, later to write Analyze This and The Larry Sanders Show, has an amusing tale about starring in a high school production of Bye Bye Birdie.
Screenwriters tend to be an anonymous lot, except to those few who bother to read credits. But a few contributors to this book have names that may ring a bell, including Alan Alda, Cameron Crowe, Delia Ephron, Larry Gilbert, Carl Reiner and William Goldman, who provides the foreword.
This is a mixed bag, but it contains enough entertaining show business stories to make reading it worthwhile.… (más)