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Le livre raconte l'histoire de Nick et de Jeff, qui se rencontrent un soir, en cruisant sur la plage. Nick va chez Jeff. Après avoir fait l'amour, ils se font soudainement charger par un duo de policiers qui font irruption chez Jeff. S'ensuit une agression violente des deux amants et une altercation pendant laquelle un des deux policiers meurt. Commence alors la cavale de Nick et Jeff, recherchés par toutes les unités de police de la Californie. Se connaissant à peine malgré une attraction inexplicable, ils devront trouver les ressorts nécessaires à leurs survies.
C'est un revenge book palpitant qui se déroule dans une capsule temporelle particulière de l'expérience gay californienne, entre la dépénalisation des relations homosexuelles entre adultes et l'arrivée du Sida, dans un climat d'homophobie systémique et institutionnelle. Déjà, James Robert Baker, se pose la question de l'expression de la colère dans les milieux gays : qu'est-ce que cela ferait si on prenait les armes et qu'on se battait pour sauver notre peau ?
It begins as a routine trick: two guys on a beach after midnight. Instant attraction, chemical overload, but in the heat of the moment they are interrupted. Brutalized by police, they fight back, a cop dies, and Nick and Jeff are on the run through Los Angeles at its worst. James Robert Baker's cult first novel-originally published under the name James Dillinger-is at once an anarchist's howl of rage at oppression and the soulless culture of Hollywood, and it is a noir thriller peppered with hilarious vignettes and ironic insight.
A potent satire of American culture in an era of media overexposure, where what we are told replaces truth and what we see on television becomes our religion. A logic-defying, plot, encompassing the exploding breasts of a surgically enhanced TV star, Eva Braun's diet pills, a forged O.J. Simpson murder tape, a cult of fundamentalist tech heads, and a profanity-obsessed Russian mafia hit man, leads all the way over the top when a vision of Catherine Deneuve encourages James to take out God.
Told in the form of interviews with those who knew and hated him, this hilarious and irreverent mockumentary recounts the rise and fall of notorious Hollywood producer Shark Trager. As a young man, Shark had dreams of directing artistic movies, but when his film school project is savaged by a snobby French critic, Shark turns instead to producing exploitative trash, the more shocking and outrageous the better. Fueled by a nonstop supply of sex and drugs, Shark's life and work become increasingly bizarre and erratic. Yet we meet a different side of Shark too, as we learn how he saved a group of Sunday school teachers held hostage by terrorists, prevented a horrific attack on Nancy Reagan by a sex-crazed donkey, and single-handedly took out a squad of dangerous neo-Nazis posing as disabled schoolchildren. It all leads up to a wild and explosive finale when, against all odds, one of Shark's films finds itself a contender for the Academy Awards--but the ceremony doesn't go exactly according to plan ...
Riotously funny, wickedly politically incorrect, and completely impossible to put down, James Robert Baker's satire of the film industry Boy Wonder (1988), long revered as a cult classic, returns to print at last in this new edition, which includes an afterword by his partner, Ron Robertson.
Los Angeles. Un écrivain ruiné. Un couple prêt à tout pour survivre. Le tout raconté d’une voix puissante et dérangeante.
Après avoir signé un best-seller avec un retentissant true crime, Tom Dunbar a disparu des radars. Son ambitieux second livre a fait un flop. Alors que les droits d’auteur commencent à se tarir, le restaurant imaginé par sa femme, la sublime et vénéneuse Beth, les précipite dans un gouffre financier. Ils vont tout perdre, jusqu’à leur maison avec vue sur l’océan, dans l’un des coins privilégiés de Los Angeles.
La situation est critique : hors de question pour Tom de renoncer à l’écriture et, pour Beth, de s’exiler dans un quartier de seconde zone. Heureusement, elle a un plan : soutirer de l’argent à son père, Bud Sturges, auteur à succès.
Here is the cult classic whose central character is based on the legend of Phil Spector. So there’s this record producer Dennis Contrelle who was huge in the early 1960s, creating epic trash masterpieces from girl groups and surf bands, a veritable Wagner of pop, but he retired at the end of the decade and disappeared into his mansion of tack somewhere in L.A. He’s still there, still married to the singer with his biggest group, a woman effectively held prisoner by the drug-damaged Svengali who can’t let her go ... But remember: “This novel is a work of fiction ... any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental.” Our narrator is a hip late-night DJ, Scott Cochrane, who grew up on the music of Dennis Contrelle, and had a teenage crush on Sharlene, the singer for the Stingrays, whose classic ’60s pop album, Fuel Injected Dreams, is tied up in his mind with his first girlfriend, Cheryl, who mysteriously disappeared the summer of the album’s release. When the DJ belittles one of his tunes, the producer phones in a complaint, and Cochrane is soon lured into the Contrelles’ world of sadomasochistic sexual intrigue.
“Mejor productor” (Boy Wonder (1988)) narra, con formato de historia oral, la vida de Shark Trager, el Rey Midas del Hollywood de los años 60, 70 y 80, de su nacimiento en un autocine a su ascenso meteórico a la cima de Hollywood y su posterior descenso a los infiernos.
Dean Seagrave was having an extraordinary day. All his belongings just went up in smoke, and he's tooling around Los Angeles in a rental car with a handheld tape recorder. The police are on his trail for assaulting an old woman outside a grocery store, or so he was just told by the man in a wheelchair he attacked at Venice Beach. "He's an emotional serial killer," he says, explaining his frenzied quest for Pablo Ortega, his lover, who disappeared one night going out for cigarettes. But what bothers Dean more is Pablo's connection to a cult, all the disappearing animals, and the story about torture in Chile. Problem is, Dean might be crazy. Or everyone might be lying. But now Dean has a machete (because the chainsaw made too much noise), and he just found Pablo.
Tim and Pete, ex-lovers with decidedly opposing personalities, survive a harrowing, twenty-four-hour reconciliation during an odyssey across the landscape of contemporary L.A.