Life Liberty & the Pursuit of Hollywood

While working as Roger Corman's story editor at Concorde-New HorizonsPictures I discovered that Michael Druxman knows how to spin a good yarn.Reading his Life Liberty & The Pursuit of Hollywood has taught me howthoroughly Michael knows his way around Movieland. It's all here:his years as a publicist a screenwriter a playwright and a hawker ofmemorabilia at autograph shows. The book's most revealing moments involvehis brief encounters with a wide array of stars. He's worked withcelebrities who are wonderful and with others who are rude forgetfulcheap backstabbing drunk-or too honest for their own good.- Beverly Gray biographer Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking VampiresFlesh-Eating Cockroaches and Driller KillersDruxman's style flows so beautifully that you don't realize that what youare indeed reading is a contribution to film history! His interactionswith so many of the Hollywood elite (and not so elite) really do contributeto a fuller and deeper understanding of them. Some of the stories arepredictably humorous. Some are jaw-droppers. Some were sad. ALL-and I meanall-were well framed beautifully developed and word-to-word dynamite. Idid NOT want this book to end.- Annette Lloyd film historian