My Forty Five Years In Hollywood And How I Escaped Alive
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DRACULA MEETS JACK THE RIPPER & OTHER REVISIONIST HISTORIES
Author: Michael B. Druxman
language: en
Publisher: BearManor Fiction
Release Date: 2014-11-26
Master storyteller Michael B. Druxman turns history and literature topsy-turvy in six unforgettable fiction tales: “The Old Coot.” “Dracula Meets Jack the Ripper” “Big Al and Desperate Dan” “Napoleon Brandy” “The Space Ship” “Budsy’s Boys” History tells us that in 1888, the elusive serial killer, Jack the Ripper, terrorized the Whitechapel District of London. Scotland Yard was baffled. That same year, Jack met his match when he crossed paths with the dreadfully evil Count Dracula. On July 22, 1934, notorious bank robber John Dillinger was shot dead by the FBI in front of Chicago’s Biograph Theater. On September 17, 1941, in Miami Beach, Florida, John Dillinger met with the former “King of Chicago,” mobster Al Capone, to plan the biggest heist of his career. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson completed the Louisiana Purchase with France’s Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The price was 4¢ per acre. In 2011, Napoleon decided that he wanted his land back.
My Forty-Five Years in Hollywood and How I Escaped Alive
"Michael B. Druxman may have escaped Hollywood after forty-five years, but he also survived and thrived there all those years...hardly a feat for the faint-hearted. His entertaining and amusing memoir tells us how he did it. With tenacity and talent, he went from PR agent to screenwriter to director and, along the way, rubbed shoulders with a fascinating array of characters, con-men, and artists. From the stars to the strugglers, from the saints to the scammers, from those who soared to those who took a swan dive, they're all here. We meet the great, the near-great, the not-so great who make Hollywood their home and their hunting ground. Druxman depicts their triumphs and follies, as well as his own, with the nuanced eye of one who has seen Hollywood at its meanest and most magnificent." - Charles Edward Pogue, Screenwriter of The Fly, Dragonheart, DOA "Michael Druxman's new book is like taking a time machine back to those thrilling days of yesteryear, a time when there was a real Hollywood with real movie stars and the kind of class that no longer exists in that place they call Hollywood today. The tales of his days as a 'publicist for a price' are endearing and droll, and the celebrities he handled make for a grand cast of characters in this very affectionate memoir. Add to that the stories of writing and directing for Roger Corman, as well as his childhood memories, and you have a book that's a fun, fast read." - Bruce Kimmel, writer/director of The First Nudie Musical, author, record producer "As a working publicist, Michael Druxman was probably responsible for five or ten percent of all the baloney written about so-called Hollywood celebrities over the last thirty-five, forty years. I oughta know. He was also my publicist for much of that time. But now, finally, here he is writing about the real Hollywood, and it's plain that he's lived it and knows it. So get the book-read it-and learn." - Stanley Rubin, writer/producer The Narrow Margin, River of No Return, White Hunter, Black Heart
A Real American Character
Author: Carl Rollyson
language: en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date: 2015-09-10
Walter Brennan (1894–1974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hollywood history. He won three Academy Awards and became a national icon starring as Grandpa in The Real McCoys. He appeared in over two hundred motion pictures and became the subject of a Norman Rockwell painting, which celebrated the actor's unique role as the voice of the American Western. His life journey from Swampscott, Massachusetts, to Hollywood, to a twelve thousand-acre cattle ranch in Joseph, Oregon, is one of the great American stories. In the first biography of this epic figure, Carl Rollyson reveals Brennan's consummate mastery of virtually every kind of role while playing against and often stealing scenes from such stars as Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, and John Wayne. Rollyson fully explores Brennan's work with Hollywood's greatest directors, such as Howard Hawks, John Ford, and Fritz Lang. As a father and grandfather, Brennan instilled generations of his family with an outlook on the American Dream that remains a sustaining feature of their lives today. His conservative politics, which grew out of his New England upbringing and his devout Catholicism, receive meticulous attention and a balanced assessment in A Real American Character. Written with the full cooperation of the Brennan family and drawing on material in archives from every region of the United States, this new biography presents an artist and family man who lived and breathed an American idealism that made him the Real McCoy.