Good Heavens! What are we-madmen? Why do we bother writing? In a spirit of turmoil and quest, I asked John Blumenthal about his process. Author of several books, including The Tinseltown Murders and The Official Hollywood Handbook, and two movies (Short Time, Blue Streak), JB took my questions in stride. Perhaps not everyone is as nervous as I am.
The voice in Jonathan Ames’s memoir, My Less Than Secret Life, his collected columns, What’s Not to Love?, and two novels, I Pass Like Night and The Extra Man, is that of a very bright man who may or not be coming apart. His words make you laugh tears and bite your lip with truth. During his recent stretch performing Eric Bogosian’s monologue ‘Notes from Underground’ in Manhattan’s East Village, I inquired about his frame of mind.
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