"She was one of the working stiff actors who made American movies a
sort of extended family for me. If I don't do this for her, who
will?"
Memory and movies collide when the narrator of "Comfort and
Joi," award-winning screenwriter Joseph Dougherty's imaginative
blend of fiction and film fact, sets out to document the life and
work of bosomy blonde bombshell Joi Lansing, a minor glamour girl
who appeared in such "classics" as "Hillbillys in a Haunted House"
and "Queen of Outer Space."
Alone in a borrowed house on the California coast during a
winter weekend, he indulges his fascination with the pin-up who
rose from extra girl to work with Orson Welles, only to end her
career in grade-z horror pictures.
Offbeat movie history from the fringes of Hollywood triggers
haunting personal memories as he follows this "beautiful beacon in
a Sargasso of bad filmmaking" and finds an unexpected path to his
own past.
"Dougherty is a humanist who argues that each of us has to look,
listen, choose, and commit. His work is as encouraging as it is
enlightening."
--Douglas Heil, "Prime-Time Authorship"
General
Imprint: |
Iuniverse, Inc.
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2004 |
First published: |
December 2004 |
Authors: |
Joseph Dougherty
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 9mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
144 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-595-33590-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-595-33590-X |
Barcode: |
9780595335909 |
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