The fictitious Grand Panjandrum of the cinema who sacrificed souls, to enlighten mankind, with his artistic passion. Celluloid was the canvas upon which this artist depicted a graphic portrayal of the human sexual psyche, along with all its physical ministrations and ritualistic manifestations. Crucified by the inquisition of Hollywood's dark ages, during the 1920s and 30s, Nathan raged against the tyranny of those who would paint loin cloths over the genitals of masterpieces, take hammers to the phalluses of sculptures, or raise the scissors of censorship to cut away the sexual revelations, both in word and deed, of his films. When Jason Taylor, a community college literature major, turned small city reporter, raises his pen for Nathan's cause, his life is changed forever. An unimposing young man who grew up idolizing heroic, larger-than-life men that stood by their beliefs and remained true to their hearts no matter what the sacrificea fate he is destined to sufferhe tells a story that spans a century and references millenniums, while living the next sixty years of his life in only one hundred days. Taylor experiences success, love, lust, enlightenment and grief on a grand scale, in a land where your fantasies are attained at the cost of your dreams. Unfortunately for Mr. Taylor, all his fantasies come true and he lives a life right out of one of his treasured novels.
Come take a journey through a novel with more plot twists and turns than a contortionist eating a pretzel on a roller coaster. From the turn-of-the-century East Boston waterfront, to the war-torn streets of Paris during World War I, where Nathan first captures the soul of a woman on film and with his erection comes an artistic epiphany that he parlays into an empire. Be there at the bombed out hotel, turned open-air movie house, when Nathan shows his sex epics to thousands of doughboys on their way to and from the bloody battlefields. Witness how Nathan struggled upon arriving in Los Angeles, in 1920, to find people who would pay to watch his depraved sexual productions in his home garage theater. Then, just when all seemed lost, Prohibition became the law of the land, creating a venue for his movies in the illegal Speakeasies of the Roaring 20sthus, he became the undisputed Hollywoodland Kingpin. With the advent of "Talkies," Nathan produced dark, sexual, psychodrama photoplays that illuminated maniacal eroticism in the glare of Hollywood's floodlights, and created pandemonium in the streets as two sides went to war over its legislation. Follow Nathan up the fabled Hollywood hillside where he sculpts a mountain, then a world in his own image; reigning supreme from his Acropolis on the summit before taking his exalted place in Valhalla. Enjoy the Mount Olympian's view from above, as he looks down upon his Kingpindom below from his palatial dirigible. Read about the driven man who strove for eternal omnipotence of the industry he ruled and not just lifetime regency. With prognostic vision, Nathan foresees beyond his time to an uncensored world, where his creations would be seen as intended; uncut, silver screen masterpieces, turned late-night cable channel gold; Rated-R; nudity, adult language, disturbing themes, more nudity, graphic sexualityoften violently inflicted or coerceddeviantly ecstaciacal hedonism and, did I mention nudity? And those are just the "R"-Rated movies...In order to tell the treatise of the Kingpin, Jason must tell the story of the world in which the great filmmaker lived and the historical bond he forged with past, present and future visionary artisans, who forever transcend their time and challenge paradigms. You'll also get to attend the wildest Hollywood pool party imaginable and gather around the campfire for some chilling celebrity ghost stories...
Just when you thought that every aspect of Hollywood lore had been dissected; all the scenes of decadent depravity, on and off screen had been sensationalized to the point of being quaint and the tragedies trivialized and over dramatized to the brink of triteness, comes the Tinsel Town tale that you've been waiting to be told...
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