Genius
by Patrick Dennis
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Following in the tradition of Auntie Mame , in 1962 bestselling author Patrick Dennis turned his wicked satirical pen on the insane world of fictional director Leander Starr. Rumored to be based on legendary filmmaker Orson Welles, Starr proves to be outrageous and memorable in this glamorous comedy of errors. Fleeing the IRS, creditors, and jilted lovers, Starr holes up in a Mexico City apartment, Casa Ximenez, with his faithful valet, Alistair St. Regis. To his surprise, the proprietor is show more none other than Catalina Ximinez, the leading lady in Starr's early masterpiece, Yucata?n Girl . By accident or intent, others soon descend on Casa Ximenez--Starr's ex-wife, his estranged socialite daughter, a shady Mexican film producer, a tax collector who has chased Starr around the world, and a dim young widow sitting on a fortune in laxative stock. Starr concocts a plan to distract them all, and possibly stage a comeback: an abbreviated epic covering the history of Mexico titled Valley of the Vultures . This fresh edition of Dennis's uproarious novel is joined by a long-lost short story of Leander Starr, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas in the Railway Station," which appeared in the Chicago Tribune Magazine of Books , as well as a new afterword by the author's son. show lessTags
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Leader Starr istrionico e strabordante vivier, regista teatrale e cinematografico sempre sopra le linee, sempre senza un dollaro, sempre con bellissime donne e sempre con la parola giusta. una foto degli anni 60/70. il mondo liberal chic agli inizi e la fuga da NYC troppo nevrotica per la più creatica Città del Messico raccontata dallo scrittore in prima persona.
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- Genius
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- To H. D. V.
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- If you are over thirty, it would be presumptuous of me to ask if you had ever heard of Leander Starr.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He will be back and be back fighting -- saint and sinner, innocent and ingrate, benefactor and blackguard, charmer and charlaton, sage and scoundrel, gallant and grifter, wit and wastrel, sophisticate and simpleton, rebel and rake, dreamer and dope, but always unabashedly and unaffectedly a genius.
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