In addition to being lifelong friends, Dan Jenkins and Bud Shraka are authors with reputation for writing best-sellers like Semi-Tough, Dead Solid Perfect, and Harvey Penick's Little Red Book (which has sold more than 2.7 million copies). Now Woodford is pleased to bring back into print this 25-year-old collaboration between the two authors -- a biting satire with a prescience even Nostradamus would admire. Limo is a hilarious romp that foretells what television 25 years ago would turn into by the time the new millennium ...
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In addition to being lifelong friends, Dan Jenkins and Bud Shraka are authors with reputation for writing best-sellers like Semi-Tough, Dead Solid Perfect, and Harvey Penick's Little Red Book (which has sold more than 2.7 million copies). Now Woodford is pleased to bring back into print this 25-year-old collaboration between the two authors -- a biting satire with a prescience even Nostradamus would admire. Limo is a hilarious romp that foretells what television 25 years ago would turn into by the time the new millennium rolled around. The main character, Frank Mallory, is a high-powered network TV executive charged with developing primetime programming for Chambers Broadcasting Company (CBC-TV). The focus of his energies is a "breakthrough" documentary-style program called "Just Up the Street", which observes the "typical" home life of four American families. (Today, of course, the concept has been popularized by shows like "Cops", "America's Funniest Home Videos" and MTV's "The Real World") To make CBC's TV dream a reality, Mallory must juggle his boss (who likes to be called The Big Guy), his estranged wife (who thinks psychotherapy can explain why her husband is ambitious), and the myriad of daily personal and professional pitfalls on the inside track between corporate Manhattan end Hollywood sound stages.
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Add this copy of Limo to cart. $6.33, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brownstown, MI, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Woodford Publishing.
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