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    The Player
    The Player
    The Player
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    The Player

    By Michael Tolkin

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    The “shrewd, entertainingly dark Hollywood novel” that inspired the award-winning Robert Altman film (The New York Times Book Review).
     
    Hollywood insider Michael Tolkin perfectly skewers the movie-making business through the mind of Griffin Mill, senior vice president of production at a major Hollywood studio. Ruthlessly ambitious, Mill is driven to control the levers of America’s dream-making machinery. He listens to writers pitch him stories all day, sitting in judgment of their fantasies, their lives. But now one writer whose pitch he responded to so glibly is sending him mortally threatening postcards.
     
    Squeezed between the threat to his life and the threat to his job, Mill’s deliberate and horrifying response spins him into a nightmare. Then he meets the sad and beautiful June Mercator and his obsession for her threatens to destroy them both.
     
    “One of the most wounding and satirical of all Hollywood exposes.” —Los Angeles Times
     
    “In its wry, acerbic description of life behind the studio gates Tolkin’s book recalls F. Scott Fitzgerald . . . and the vengeful comedy of Nathaniel West’s The Day of the Locust.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateDec 1, 2007
    ISBN9781555847470
    The Player
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    Michael Tolkin

    Michael Tolkin is the author of The Player, and Among the Dead . He wrote the screenplay for the Robert Altman film The Player and wrote and directed The Rapture and The New Age.Atlantic Books publishes The Return of the Player and Under Radar.

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      A producer sits behind his desk, dismissively dismissing the efforts of screenwriter after screenwriter; and then the death threats arrive in the post, haunting eponymous Player.One of a number of books written about the underbelly of Hollywood, "The Player" is an interesting piece, though its parts do not fit as seamlessly together as they should, and at times contrivances work to confuse the reader; overall, a sleight of hand trick, though worth reading all the same.

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