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Title: Hollywood by Charles Bukowski ISBN: 0-87685-763-2 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: December, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The original barfly
Comment: Bukowski's humor is razor sharp in this book ostensibly on the making of "Barfly." Bukowski was enjoying some measure of success and even respect by this point, and was approached by Schroeder to write the screenplay for a movie about himself. Bukowski was of course flattered and took up the challenge. His books and poetry have always been about himself in one form or another, but here was his big chance to imagine himself on screen.
Bukowski takes you step by step through the making of the movie, with a sardonic eye for the details. Schroeder and his pal tried to get in touch with the lower east side of LA, which Bukowski enjoys poking fun at. He wasn't too keen about having Mickey Roarke cast as himself, he had Sean Penn in mind, but was smitten with the idea of Faye Dunaway as his love interest.
The book doesn't plunge to the lower depths as do his short stories and poetry. Bukowski keeps himself semi-detached from the subject of his early life. The book, like the movie, looks back at these formative years in a wry way that has a number of amusing twists and turns. He ends appropriately enough with the screening of the movie, with much of the gang invited to attend, making a party of it down in front of the screen as they assessed the film. Not bad, Bukowski concluded.
Rating: 5
Summary: I Wish He Was Still Around
Comment: This had to be one of the most enjoyable books I've read in years. It's actually based on Bukowski's life and the events that lead up to and involve the making of his movie "Barfly." It's totally off the wall, but Bukowski's take on Hollywood's own particular brand of insanity is probably just as true today as it was when Charles Bukowski penned this masterpiece of the absurd. Definitely a great book from one of my favorite writers. Highly recommended!
Rating: 5
Summary: Hollyweed
Comment: This is all about the breaking and making of his screenplay Barfly. One of the best drunk movies ever@!
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Title: Women by Charles Bukowski ISBN: 0876853904 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: October, 1981 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Post Office by Charles Bukowski ISBN: 0876850867 Publisher: Black Sparrow Press Pub. Date: October, 1981 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski ISBN: 0876855575 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: September, 1982 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski ISBN: 0872860744 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: June, 1981 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Factotum by Charles Bukowski ISBN: 0876852630 Publisher: Black Sparrow Press Pub. Date: June, 1975 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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