The author tells the story of his life in the US television business, from his job as a writer for "Cheers", then its demise and how he coped with starting from scratch again, and through the ins and outs of getting a series on television. The book also provides a view of the industry as a whole.
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The funniest and wittiest thing to come out of Tinseltown since Curb Your Enthusiasm (Arena on Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke)
My book of the year ... There's simply no more reliable guide to contemporary Hollywood (Evening Standard Books of the Year)
Very, very funny ... as riveting and real as gossip. Indeed, there's a brilliant section on the nature and meaning of Hollywood gossip ... There's just enough moral weight in this hugely enjoyable book to make you wonder if it's all really worth it (Guardian)
His novel within a novel within a script is a hilarious, shocking and honest account of how Hollywood really works (Daily Mirror)
There are numerous passage here that still chime gruesomely with present-day experience, as Long's naïve positively is met head- on by his agent's crushingly cynical reminders that he's just a writer . This isn't just a showbiz humour but Jewish humour (Christopher Fowler Independent 2014-06-16)
Rob Long's two brilliant, funny and ironical books about what really goes on behind the scenes in Hollywood are now published in one volume for the first time
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