false 1236172 1 Hooray for Hollywood? Maybe not. At least not if Peter Farrelly's searingly funny novel is even remotely accurate. Farrelly is a screenwriter and director himself, so the story of aspiring movie scribe Henry Halloran has a scarily authentic feel. When he gives up his job as a salesman in Boston and heads out west to polish and peddle the script he based on a recent breakup, Henry tumbles into a world of bizarre quasi celebrities, breathtakingly unprincipled producers, surgically enhanced starlets, and plain ordinary lunatics. The result is basically an unrelenting nightmare, guest-starring his uninvited roommate, the sister of a woman whose suicide he failed to prevent. <p> Farrelly's master stroke in <I>The Comedy Writer</I> is making Henry as unsympathetic as most of the characters he runs into. This is not the story of a wide-eyed innocent thrown to the Hollywood sharks but of a bitter, frequently nasty hypochondriac who bites off more than he can chew and gradually realizes that almost anything is better than Hollywood's version of success. It's the kind of book that makes you want to take a shower, but you'll still be chuckling as you soap up. <I>--Simon Leake</I> 1224804 13 4 1998 The Comedy Writer total:115|5:24|4:30|3:51|2:9|1:1| 115 412 138 17 3 1 true false Sun Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 08:21:32 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 16:22:31 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Jan 10 12:22:08 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 12:26:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 19:49:47 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 19:51:02 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 20:22:59 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 22:16:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 11 23:58:41 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 23:59:54 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 16:22:33 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 22:06:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Jul 24 00:24:51 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 00:26:03 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 29 20:56:03 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 11:12:42 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Jan 18 13:55:56 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 13:58:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 17 21:24:19 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 01 07:23:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Oct 31 18:21:21 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 18:22:40 -0700 2007 ]]> 3 0 false false Sat Mar 15 16:27:09 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 15 16:27:40 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Thu Aug 02 17:12:44 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 17:13:23 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Sun Jun 17 21:25:40 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 17 21:26:13 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Jul 14 10:52:13 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 10:52:36 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 04:50:47 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 04:09:34 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Sep 03 14:25:26 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 14:25:34 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Wed Nov 11 12:00:05 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 12:00:05 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Nov 08 18:25:48 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 18:25:48 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Oct 25 16:12:37 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 16:12:37 -0700 2009