Updated 4/3/05
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THE DEAD FILE All the Blacklist fiction, plays and films I've
seen have been concerned with someone who was blacklisted. None of them showed how the Blacklist functioned as part of showbusiness daily commerce, where, in NYC's TV industry, the Blacklist, itself, was a business - those who
did the Blacklisting would "clear" their victims for a fee. The Dead File
was its bastard child - born of Casting Directors' fear of "guilt by association". And
unlike the Blacklist, which was public, The Dead File was
secret: those in it knew only that one day their phones
stopped ringing.
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HONEY
Everyone needs a
fairy story sometime. This one is about Honey Burke, a young woman who has sung her way up out of Hell's
Kitchen by working every lowdown speakeasy in New York. On New Year's Eve, as 1929 is about to
dawn, she is the Headliner in Charley Neuf's Class A nightclub, is appropriated by a visiting
mobster from Chicago, and for the first time in her young life, fears that she "doesn't matter".
Nurtured in the belief that nothing is perfect, in her pursuit of proof that she does
matter, she becomes convinced that the only acceptable proof would to make a connection with
something perfect. The rest of her story concerns her collaboration with a the greatest dog
who ever raced a fast track, and pair of unlikely young gamblers from her old neighborhood -
one of whom has never been known to lose, the other has never been known to win. Which one
turns out to be her "something perfect" - and how she proves it - is this fairy story’s climax. |
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THE PASSION OF BRIAN LOFTUS Because the century that has just ended has so often been called "The American Century," I thought it might be useful to give that century a fractured overview by writing a novel in the magic-realism genre. The main character is a man who has served as Consultant to every American President from Roosevelt through the early days of the current one - with a time frame ranging from his birth in a small Missouri town in 1915, the horse and buggy age, through 1992. The angle of vision not a "debunking" view, but one tinged with the rue that must accompany one who, upon taking his place in a seat of power, finds himself less than omnipotent. The "passion" in the title - borrowed from Gethsemane - is "The Passion Of Brian Loftus." To read a Sample Chapter of "The Passion of Brian Loftus", Click Here To Buy “The Passion of Brian Loftus”, Click Here |
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