5/7/2023 0 Comments Queenie korda![]() ![]() ![]() Winston Beard (a pseudonym for James Goldman) and April Smith adapted the novel for television, with Larry Peerce directing. Anyone who has gossiped over a TV star's private life will leave this tome wondering what's really going on with their favorite celebrities. Queenie is a 1987 ABC miniseries based on the eponymous 1985 novel by writer and producer Michael Korda. ![]() The reader sees how the desperate need to please causes Charlie to get roped into a journalist's line of questioning he technically knew to avoid, and how the process of audition and rejection a decade after wrapping a successful cult television show (not dissimilar to Buffy) toys with the self-esteem of Josie Lamar, our other protagonist.Īuthor Leah Stewart begins each section with an excerpt from real acting coaches (like Lee Strasberg), which works amusingly to set up the vulnerabilities (and, yes, absurdities) that Charlie and Josie go through. On its face, Charlie Outlaw is a book that jumps back and forth between the kidnapping of an actor on a remote tropical island and the struggle of his ex-girlfriend to deal with the fallout of a devastating interview he inadvertently gave to a glossy magazine - the quotes from which caused not only their breakup, but also his escape to the island for what he thought would be a solo hiking trip.īut, upon further inspection, the novel is actually a fascinating (and at times searing) thesis on what fame does to a person. ![]()
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