The Player: A Novel - Softcover

Tolkin, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802135137 ISBN 13: 9780802135131

Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing, 1997

Synopsis

"Just as Griffin suspected, there was a meeting in Levison's office without him." With this opening, we are taken into the mind and life of Griffin Mill, senior vice president of production at a major Hollywood studio. It is a mind full of paranoia, duplicity, and guile--and a life full of money, power, and fame. It is the movie business. Griffin Mill is ruthlessly ambitious, driven to control the levers of America's dream-making machinery. Griffin listens to writers pitch him stories all day, sitting in judgment on their fantasies, their lives. But now one writer to whose pitch he responded so glibly is sending him postcards: "You said you'd get back to me. You didn't. And now in the name of all writers who get pushed around by studio executives I'm going to kill you." Squeezed between the threat to his life and the threat to his job, Griffin's deliberate and horrifying response spins him into a nightmare. Then he meets the sad and beautiful June Mercator and his obsession for her threatens to destroy them both. With a compulsively readable narrative that offers a devastating portrait of contemporary Hollywood--the studio execs, the deal-making, the politics, the pitches--The Player is the smartest book.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

'One of the most wounding and satirical of all Hollywood exposes: dark and mordant...savage...A portrait of life among the high rollers and deal makers of a major Hollywood studio in the post-Golden Age. Unnerving...A nightmare rendered with icy dispassion.' - Los Angeles Times

Synopsis:

Griffin Mill, a ruthless, ambitious senior vice president at a major Hollywood studio, has a mind devoid of principle and a luxury-filled life, but his world is shaken when a writer he has ignored threatens his life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0802135137
• ISBN 13: 9780802135131
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 193