Opus Books: Hotstroke

HOTSTROKE
A COMEDY FROM THE HEART

In 1950's Hollywood, where movie talent was silenced by the Communist witch hunts, McCarthy Congressional Hearings, studio blacklists, and kicked out of the country of their fortune, their studios darkened and closed, paralyzed by age, illness, poverty, and being forgotten,

Archie Flum meets the ultimate film fan - Lanny Hotstroke,
who loves the Silent Movies of an earlier era where the whole world
was made to laugh and cry without words - and Lanny
struggles to bring The Silents back to life.

HOTSTROKE is clumsy, rude, intrusive, embarrassing and
a total pain to everyone he meets.

He tells the ugly truth, and drives his best friends crazy,
even when it hurts, but in the world of comedy
there is no warmer, more beloved clown,
and this book is his memorial.

Filled with a cast of thousands of the stars of
the Golden Age of Silents -
Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Buster Keaton,
Snub Pollard, Zasu Pitts, Mary Pickford, Doug Fairbanks and
more as they were in life.

Written in 1962, HOTSTROKE has been withheld and
read by no living person
preserved until all who were then are gone now.

HOTSTROKE defines the words Pest, Jerk, Dumbo, Dysfunction and HILARIOUS!

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Chapbook, Strip Binding. Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
ISBN # 0-9661961-4-7
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