Queenan Reads Eszterhaz: "I'm a Dancer!"
Only Joe Queenan could make me want to read Joe Eszterhas' self-basting screed THE DEVIL'S GUIDE TO HOLLYWOOD (subtitled "The Screenwriter as God!"). Queenan, in a New York Times book review, gives a sampling of the big E's "incandescent" prose:
“Don’t let your urine rise to your head.”“Michael Ovitz was the Anti-Christ.”
“Check your crotch before a meeting.”
Should you dare go further and check Eszterhasz' crotch, the book details his alleged affair with Sharon Stone, which he's been bragging about for the last 15 years, as well as all his ridicule for people like Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. None of *them* ever had an affair with Sharon Stone or wrote a script about a female welder who moonlighted as an exotic dancer. So there!
Comments
It's been a long time since I've read anything by Joe Queenan. That review was hilarious. (But it doesn't make me want to read the Eszterhas book, nor does it make me want to be a ballerina.)
Posted by: Josh Boelter | September 21, 2006 08:42 AM