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<p>"Like a Twilight zone with Charlie Chaplin"Mario Puzo</p> <p>Writer, screenwriter, playwright, editor, actor, teacher: Bruce Jay Friedman has done it all, charming the glitziest industries of American golden-age culture for more than half a century. <i>Lucky Bruce</i> is his long-awaited memoir, and it's everything we'd expect and more: here is Friedman at his best, waltzing from Madison Avenue to Hollywood and back again, and reilluminating with brilliant clarity the dazzle of post-war American life.</p> <p>Self-effacing, wry, sharp, and laugh-out-loud funny, Friedman details with lovable candor his friendships and rivalries with the greatest writers, actors, publishers, directors and personalities of the last fifty years. He stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Steve Martin and Woody Allen. He's a dynamo of comedy and a recognized master of American letters. And in <i>Lucky Bruce</i>, whether he's fist-fighting with Norman Mailer, explaining to Richard Pryor why there are so few Jewish junkies, or writing screenplays in a closet with Natalie Wood as his secretary, Friedman is the king of understated charm. With cameos by Joseph Heller, Philip Roth, Mario Puzo, Lillian Hellman, Wa

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Author

Bruce Jay Friedman

Publisher

[Emeryville, Ont.]: Biblioasis

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283305181

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.19 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13