A Life in the Cinema

<p><strong>Introduction by Stephen King<br><br>Afterword by Tobe Hooper</strong><br><br>A LIFE IN THE CINEMA is the first book from award-winning filmmaker Mick Garris. It is a collection of eight prickly tales and a screenplay that reach under the skin of real life and reel life to take you places you never realized you wanted to go.<br><br>The title story "A Life in the Cinema" and its sequel "Starfu**er" are set in the author's hometown of Hollywood and provide a yellow-jaundiced look at a world you only thought was glamorous.<br><br>Not all of the stories are Hollywood-based: Garris includes tales of a grandmother who is just as loving in death as she was in life a geriatric trailer park with a randy secret wistful and impossible love with a twist the wrong kind of baby-love and a deathly brush with fame. The book is capped with a screenplay by Garris as well as "Chocolate" the story it's based on.<br>So welcome to a dark side of Hollywood you've never seen before...</p>