Turning Right at Hollywood and Vine

by Simon, Roger L.

• ISBN13: 9781594034817
• ISBN10: 1594034818
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-08
• Publisher: Encounter Books

Summary

An Academy Awardnominated screenwriter and a mystery novelist, Roger L. Simon is the only American writer to pull off the amazing trick of being profiled positively in bothMother JonesandNational Reviewin one lifetime. The stunning story of his political odyssey is told in this memoir, where Simon recounts his migration from financier of the Black Panther Breakfast Program to pioneer blogosphere mogul beloved by the right as a 9/11 Democrat. But Simon is beholden to neither right nor left in this tale of Hollywood chic run amuck, as he talks out of school about his adventures with, among many others, Richard Pryor, Warren Beatty, Timothy Leary, Richard Dreyfuss, Woody Allen, and Julian Semyonov, the Soviet Union's version of Robert Ludlum and also a KGB colonel who tempted Simon to join the KGB himself. Among the topics covered along the way: Is there a new blacklist in Hollywood, this one targeting conservatives? Simon's red-carpet tours of the People's Republic of China, Cuba, and the Soviet Union with Hollywood screenwriters and famous mystery novelists. Why Al Gore's documentary on global warming didn't deserve the Oscar on artistic grounds alone; and why the Academy's documentary voting system is so corrupt. And, as they say, there is much, much more besides.

Author Biography

Roger L. Simon is a multiple award-winning mystery novelist, blogger, and screenwriter living in California. He is currently the CEO of Pajamas Media.

Table of Contents

Introduction: My Old Life Calls My New Life	p. xi
"Only Victims"	p. 1
From South Carolina Backwards	p. 13
Moses Wine Is Born	p. 25
Daddy Rich, Abbie, The Baby Moguls, And My Early Brush with Identity Politics	p. 51
The 1980s Vintage	p. 71
Paul and the Days of Success	p. 83
The International Association of Crime Writers, Three Trips to Russia, and How I Came To Be Recruited by the KGB	p. 103
Evolution: The Birth of an Accidental Online Apostate CEO	p. 131
Father Timothy and My Three Wives	p. 143
OJ Changed My Life	p. 155
Why They Hate the Neocons	p. 161
The New Blacklist	p. 167
The Rise of the "Mini-Me"	p. 175
Extended Family Values and The Godfather	p. 179
Satori in the Modern Age of Conservative Liberals	p. 187
Epilogue: Finding God in Geneva and other Travels without My Aunt, plus the Rise of Tea Party Movies	p. 191
Index	p. 199
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