Hollywood Animal [antikvár]

CHAPTER 1 rhe King of Point Doom KARCHY I wanna show off the car. I wanna show you off. DINEY Why do you have t^ show off all the time? KARCHY I ain't got that much to show. Telling Lies in America L I My great-grandfather grew up a poor kid in a tiny village in Hungary. He was about to be drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army and he fled to America. He worked as a miner in Pennsylvania for a while but didn't like the work. He went out to the American West and became a sjUge-coach robber. He became wealthy. He rode with Black Bart and Jesse James. I grew up a poor kid in the refugee camps of Austria and on the West Side of Cleveland, Ohio. I worked as a furniture mover, a disc jockey, and a newspaper reporter, but I didn't like the work. I went out to the American West and became a screenwriter. I rode with a whole lot of famous hombres.^ I sold screenplays in Hollywood for record amounts of money. / My agent, Guy McElwaine, referred to these sales as "bank heists^" My wife, Naomi, wore a leather strap of silver bullets around one of her cowboy boots when I met her. And when she knew she had fallen in love with me, she gave me the strap of silver bullets and tied them around one of my cowboy boots. The day I married her, I wore her silver bullets.