Ergebnis für "Hollywood" in Satire

From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name. Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter-ego, is pushed to translate a semi-autobiographical book into a screenplay for John Pinchot. He...

Was, wenn man dem Weihnachtsmann schreibt... und der auch noch antwortet? Für die kleine Lu startet so eine ungewöhnliche Brieffreundschaft, die zeigt, was passiert, wenn wir unsere Augen und Herzen ein bisschen weiter öffnen. Denn das schönste Weihnachtswunder liegt oft viel näher, als man denkt - vielleicht sogar fast vor der eigenen Haustür. Erzählt wird diese Kurzgeschichte von der deutschen Stimme von Jennifer Lawrence, Maria Koschny.

Gleich zum Auftakt unseres Hollywood-Quartetts wird's richtig haarig. Denn schließlich steht nichts weniger als Weihnachten auf dem Spiel! "Wer hat dem Christkind die Haare geklaut?" fragt sich unser aufgeweckter Erzähler, gesprochen von der deutschen Stimme von Robert Downey Junior. Schließlich droht ohne die himmlische Lockenpracht das ganze Weihnachtsfest ins Wasser zu fallen.

Diesmal wird es brandgefährlich: Lauert der Tod im Zug? Für Auftragskiller gelten besondere Regeln: keine Frauen, keine Kinder... und keine unerledigten Aufträge. Wer diese ungeschriebenen Gesetze bricht, muss sich um seine Rente garantiert keine Sorgen machen. Zwischen den Stationen beginnt schleichend ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, erzählt von der deutschen Stimme von George Clooney.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a chilling tale that combines reality, memoir, and fantasy to create a fascinating portrait of this most controversial writer but also a deeply moving novel about love and loss, parents...

In this sequel to The House of God and Man's 4th Best Hospital, Dr. Roy Basch returns to his economically depressed hometown in upstate New York to help the struggling hospital battle the COVID-19 pandemic and the money-driven bureaucracy. After the tragic climax of Man's 4th Best Hospital, four...

Congratulations--just by looking at this webpage, you became 25% more patriotic. From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23¬ø hours of your day. I Am America (And So Can You!) contains all of the opinions...

"A glamorous, intriguing novel" (New York Times) about a jaded movie star and the two differently conflicted women in his orbit. Some people you meet them and you imagine this movie together. The two of you make a kind of movie and then it’s over. Other people, what you imagine isn’t a movie...

Everyone’s favorite houseguest who never left, Leon Black (played by award-winning comedian JB Smoove on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm) drops his wisdom and good-bad advice for the masses. Learn the secrets Larry David has gleaned from the Falstaff of television. Live your best Leon. Bring the...

In his youth, Adam Peppers wanted nothing more than the spotlight. The fame, the fortune, and the glory that came with celebrity. Until his brother stole his dream from him. Angry and bitter, he lets the doldrums of suburban life eat away at him. Until one night, it all changes. He finds his parents dead, himself attacked by a mysterious hooded figure, and his house burned down. With nothing left, he seeks an opportunity to take from his brother what he always knew should have been his.

When Hollywood producer Zane Galvin’s failed movie leaves him with a $5 million debt and 30 days to pay it off, he goes to unpredictable extremes to raise the money. Joining in on his scheme are Zane’s girlfriend, his gardener, the film’s writer, and the director. The plan quickly turns into a wicked game of switching sides, blackmail, betrayal, and greed. Will anyone come out a winner?

When a gang of film-star look-alikes decide to try and con a Hollywood producer into financing their bogus blockbuster movie, they know it's the biggest gamble of their lives but looking like the biggest flange of film-stars ever assembled to make a movie, has got to help. The Great Hollywood Double Hustle invites you into the curious world of a desperate gang of film-star look-alikes who are prepared to risk everything to escape what they consider to be, their dysfunctional Doppelgänger fate.

“Deliciously vicious and unsettlingly hilarious, Cruelty Free is a nasty, thrilling Hollywood take-down for the ages.” —JENNIFER THORNE, author of Diavola A disgraced movie star returns to Hollywood 10 years after the kidnapping of her young daughter intent on seeking revenge, for fans of...

Morgan Beale is a pop icon - and hates every second of it. He begins adapting the latest best seller, The Chihuahua in the Blue Prada Bag, into a blockbuster movie just before his celebutante wife starts remodeling their Hollywood home, driving Beale to a hotel. Dodging the paparazzi one morning on his way to Starbucks, he spots his writing partner, Luke, who has been dead for over a decade, and who is staring into a mysterious hole in the ground....

Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor “[T]his poised and playful debut novel is a sly satire on foodie culture and the modern hype machine. . . . As tart as ‘artisanal citrus,’ as sharp as a chef’s knife, The Lemon is both a gleeful foodie sendup and an incisive takedown of the...

A lost literary gem of Hollywood in the 1930s, I Lost My Girlish Laughter is a thinly veiled send-up of the actors, producers, writers, and directors of the Golden Age of the studio system.

Donald Trump does not want you to listen to his (totally unauthorized and fictional) diary and he absolutely in no way wants you to know what insiders refer to as his "secret identity". We see a crooked businessman who keeps filing for bankruptcy, taking out massive, multi-hundred-million dollar loans, and poses as reality show star who turned himself into a caricature with the cruel catch phrase, "You're fired!"

Getting our hands on this source material was dangerous, legally questionable, and career-threatening, but I felt it was worth the risk–these aren’t just Hollywood outtakes, folks, these are far-out-takes. Did Duke and JFK have a reckoning in the Oval Office? Did Yoda have anger issues? Did Sean Connery struggle with crappy dentures? The answers to these–and many more unanswered questions–lay within the treasure trove of The Lost Recordings, Vol. 1: Hollywood.