Christopher Robbins was a down-at-the-heels freelance journalist in London when a "friend"--an expat American drug dealer who masqueraded as a count--linked him up with an elderly gay Irishman, purportedly the "greatest Irish filmmaker ever"--which turned out to be the case. Brian Desmond Hurst had made some thirty films in his eighty years (including "A Christmas Carol, Tom Brown's Schooldays, Dangerous Moonlight, Simba, " and "Playboy of the Western World"), and was on close terms with people such as John Ford, Laurence ...
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Christopher Robbins was a down-at-the-heels freelance journalist in London when a "friend"--an expat American drug dealer who masqueraded as a count--linked him up with an elderly gay Irishman, purportedly the "greatest Irish filmmaker ever"--which turned out to be the case. Brian Desmond Hurst had made some thirty films in his eighty years (including "A Christmas Carol, Tom Brown's Schooldays, Dangerous Moonlight, Simba, " and "Playboy of the Western World"), and was on close terms with people such as John Ford, Laurence Olivier, Noel Coward, Sean O'Casey, Vanessa Redgrave, and a slew of other notables. Hurst immediately hired the young journalist to write the screenplay for his final work, a biblical epic about the birth of Christ, dubbed "The Box Office Blockbuster"--and subsequently his autobiography--"The Big Bestseller." No reader can fail to become spellbound and laugh-out-loud by the wit, warmth of heart, sense of mischief, Celtic charm, and vast appetite for life present in "The Empress of Ireland."
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Good+ Book has library markings, spine is straight, binding is tight, reading pages are clean and unmarked, some wear.; 5.75 X 1.25 X 8.25 inches; 400 pages.
