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Title: Force Majeure by Bruce Wagner ISBN: 0-394-58261-6 Publisher: Random House Inc Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: The locusts are here to stay
Comment: Bruce Wagner is a screenwriter and director with a swirling disturbing perception of the subworld that is Hollywoodland. When writing the seminal though hardly remembered techrevolution packaged as a TV miniseries, Wild Palms, he locked himself away in the old 20s glamour haunt, the Chateau Marmont friend William Gibson has reported, and filled the room with books - not to read, but just to inspire or invoke in the darn thing. I think there were probably a lot of candles too.
Force Majeure is somewhat more contemporary than the near future world of Wild Palms, but it is spilling over with the same mundane paranoia that seeps through Hollywood. Bud Wiggins, a Willy Loman as screenwriter bumps and stumbles through a world and narrative that is part Day of the Locusts, part Terry Southern's Blue Movie. You feel like there's always a conspiracy around the corner, but its only showbiz. Force Majeure whips together trippyness, struggle, pop, and pornography in a way that makes me think of Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers, though the books are not similar otherwise.
Finally, this is a portrait of Hollywood. There's a beginning rule of screenwriting that says Hollywood is the only place where you can make a living on failure. And that's if you're really lucky. Force Majeure embodies that notion.
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Title: I'm Losing You by Bruce Wagner ISBN: 0452278686 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Still Holding by Bruce Wagner ISBN: 0743243374 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: I'll Let You Go by Bruce Wagner ISBN: 0812968476 Publisher: Random House Trade Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film by Peter Biskind ISBN: 068486259X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Havana Room by Colin Harrison ISBN: 0374299862 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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