Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal and Raging Egos

Synopsis

This A Hilarious Memoir Of Clancy Sigal's Escapades As A Young Hollywood Agent On The Sunset Strip, Peddling Writers And Actors In A Blacklist-crazed Golden Age Movie Industry Of The 1950s. Atom Bomb Tests Light Up The Night Sky, And Everyone Is Either Naming Names Or Getting Named In The Mccarthy Witch Hunt. By Day A Fast-talking Salesman, At Night He's The Point Person Of A Small Circle Of Anarchistic Oddballs. He's Dogged By Two Fbi Agents Who Want To Be Set Up With Starlets And Have A Screen Test. They Trail Him As He Goes From Studio To Studio Hustling Clients Like Humphrey Bogart, Donna Reed, Jack Palance, Peter Lorre And Barbara Stanwyck. Barred From A Studio He Brazenly Uses A Bolt Cutter To Break Through The Chainlink Fence To Make A Deal. Black Sunset's Riproaring Ribald Style Belongs To A Hardboiled School That Includes Elmore Leonard And Raymond Chandler. He Is One Of The Few Remaining Witnesses And Reporters Of This Absurd And Terrifying Time-- The Fugitive -- Farewell, My Lovely -- Where This Story Takes Place -- Bride Of The Gorilla -- The Killers -- From Here To Eternity -- The Night World War Ii Ended -- Theatre Of Blood -- On The Waterfront -- Holding My Nose And Praying -- Liar, Liar -- Pulling An All-nighter Cramming For The Job I Bluffed Into -- O Brother, Where Art Thou? -- Who Are The Omegas? -- The Fbi Story -- First Day On The Job After My Lying Interview -- Where The Bodies Are Buried In Hollywood -- Act Of Violence -- Socrates In Tasseled Loafers -- Gangster Chic -- Ghost Story -- The Thousand Guns Of Dale And Peter -- The Big Knife -- The Trial Of The Century -- Sweet Smell Of Success -- Who Served, Who Didn't -- Teacher's Pets -- Time Out Of Time -- Harmless As Doves; Innocent As A Lamb -- The Big Steal -- The Demon Barber Of Wilshire Boulevard -- A Double Life -- A Perfect Crime -- Portrait Of Jennie -- Torah! Torah! Torah! -- The Informer -- Picnic -- Cold War Sex In A Lonelier Place -- The Women -- The Ladies Auxiliary -- The Price Of Love -- The Crash -- A Visit From A Constant Reader -- The Storm Subsides, Sunrise Over Malibu -- Enter Doctor Charisma -- She's Only A Poor Workin' Girl -- Baby Face -- The Man Killer From Double Indemnity -- Blazing Saddles -- A Star Is Born -- How To Break A Writer's Block -- The Defiant Ones -- Death Of A Salesman -- The Long Goodbye -- The Non-union Indian -- Mojave Green -- You Bet Your Life -- Dance, Girl, Dance. Clancy Sigal. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.