This a hilarious memoir of Clancy Sigal's escapades as a young
Hollywood agent on the Sunset Strip, peddling writers and actors in
a blacklist-crazed "golden age" movie industry of the 1950s. Atom
bomb tests light up the night sky, and everyone is either naming
names or getting named in the McCarthy witch hunt. By day a
fast-talking salesman, at night he's the point person of a small
circle of anarchistic oddballs. He's dogged by two FBI agents who
want to be set up with starlets and have a screen test. They trail
him as he goes from studio to studio hustling clients like Humphrey
Bogart, Donna Reed, Jack Palance, Peter Lorre and Stanwyck. Barred
from a studio he brazenly uses a bolt cutter to break through the
chainlink fence to make a deal. Black Sunset's riproaring ribald
style belongs to a hardboiled school that includes Elmore Leonard
and Raymond Chandler. He is one of the few remaining witnesses and
reporters of this absurd and terrifying time.
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