Bøger af Pat Silver-Lasky

"Another hilarious foray into the world of filmdom. Pat Silver-Lasky has a way with words and twisted situations and parody and puns and downright guffaws. If anyone can find the laughs in filmdom, Pat holds the key. Meet Jeff and Jean, young and in love, a husband/wife writing team. They were almost out of the business until they met the super-sharks, Matt and Pandora, rapacious rascals dedicated to the con - and artists at it. Pat Silver-Lasky has written a fast-paced contemporary comedy set in the international film world of the 1980s. All hell breaks loose when two American writers, Jeff and Jean, confront a master fraudster and his dazzling partner. It's romantic, violent, upbeat and lowdown. Another Silver-Lasky winner. " GRADY HARP. Pat's relationship with Hollywood goes back a long way before she was born. In 1913 her future father-in-law Jesse L. Lasky produced the full-length motion picture and founded Paramount Pictures. Her late husband and writing partner Jesse L. Lasky Jr. wrote 48 films, eight of them for Cecil B. DeMille and eight with Pat. They also wrote four books together and 119 TV scripts.Living in London since the 1960s, Pat was also Script Consultant at the London Film School for eight years. She has published four more books and now lives in Orange County California with her husband Peter Betts with whom she wrote 'Scams Schemes and Scumbags'. RICHARD NILESwww.partsilverlasky.com

Fame, Money and Sex. That's what Hollywood is all about. Madelaine Brent wanted them all and she always got everything she wanted. But sometimes everything is too much and somebody can get murdered.

Intimate details about the Lasky family; Lasky's complex relationship with his wife; with Adolph Zukor, Samuel Goldwyn, Cecil B. DeMille; behind-the-scenes negotiations and development of some of Hollywood's finest classics.