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Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal and Raging Egos

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Availability:In StockContributor:Clancy SigalPublish date:2016-12-13Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Soft SkullISBN-13:9781593766573ISBN-10:1593766572UPC:9781593766573Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Rich & Famous, Entertainment & Performing ArtsSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCDJASV9AS
This a hilarious memoir of Clancy Sigal's escapades as a young Hollywood agent on the Sunset Strip, peddling writers and actors in a blacklist-crazed "golden age" movie industry of the 1950s. Atom bomb tests light up the night sky, and everyone is either naming names or getting named in the McCarthy witch hunt. By day a fast-talking salesman, at night he's the point person of a small circle of anarchistic oddballs. He's dogged by two FBI agents who want to be set up with starlets and have a screen test. They trail him as he goes from studio to studio hustling clients like Humphrey Bogart, Donna Reed, Jack Palance, Peter Lorre and Stanwyck. Barred from a studio he brazenly uses a bolt cutter to break through the chainlink fence to make a deal.

Black Sunset's riproaring ribald style belongs to a hardboiled school that includes Elmore Leonard and Raymond Chandler. He is one of the few remaining witnesses and reporters of this absurd and terrifying time.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Soft SkullISBN-13:9781593766573ISBN-10:1593766572UPC:9781593766573Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Rich & Famous, Entertainment & Performing ArtsSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCDJASV9AS
Clancy Sigal was the child of a love affair between two labor organizers, Jennie Persily and Leo Sigal. Jennie, a single mother, raised Clancy on her own, with a mostly absent father. After an army stint he worked as an entertainment agent. Sigal arrived as an immigrant in Great Britain, where he met and commenced a four-year affair with the writer Doris Lessing. He lived in Los Angeles with his screenwriter wife, Janice Tidwell, until his death.
Publisher: Soft Skull

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