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Television and movie superstar and super heel, Toby Temple, adulated and feared everywhere, meets and briefly loves passionate, lovely Jill Castle, who has carried her terrible secret and dreams into a chimerical Hollywood
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| ISBN 13: | 9780446356572 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Language: | English |
| Dimensions: | 108 x 166 mm |
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Sidney Sheldon garnered international praise and recognition in four diverse fields. The winner of an Oscar and a Tony, Sheldon had over 200 television scripts, 25 major motion pictures, 6 Broadway plays, 18 novels (which have sold over 300 million copies) and a memoir, THE OTHER SIDE OF ME, to his credit, ranking him as one of the world's most prolific writers.
Each of Sheldon's books hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and have been distributed in more than 180 countries in 51 languages. These include Russian, Turkish, Hungarian, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Korean, Hebrew, Greek and Indonesian. Sheldon was one of the few major authors to have most of his novels filmed as major motion pictures or blockbuster miniseries for television.
A master storyteller, Sheldon regarded his becoming a writer as something of a miracle. "I was born in Chicago during the Depression and both my parents were third grade drop-outs," he recalled. "My father never read a book in his life and I was the only one in the family to complete high school."
Hearing that busy producers often needed script readers, Sheldon wrote and submitted a synopsis of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men to all the studios. He heard back from all of them within three days. Sheldon went to work for Universal Studios as a reader for $17 a week.
Joining the Air Force during World War II, Sheldon earned his pilot's wings. Upon his discharge, he began to write for Broadway, and at age 25 had three musical hits simultaneously playing on the Great White Way the revised Merry Widow, Jackpot and Dream with Music. Next came Alice in Arms starring Kirk Douglas in his first Broadway appearance, and later, Redhead with Gwen Verdon, for which Sheldon won a Tony Award .
He created, wrote, and produced the smash hit series, I Dream of Jeannie and at one point was turning out two scripts a day when the two shows' schedules overlapped during the 1965-66 season. Jeannie brought Sheldon an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy and ran on NBC for five years. He also created the extremely popular series, Hart to Hart.
Sidney Sheldon passed away on January 30, 2007. His wife, Alexandra, was by his side.
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