Table of Contents
Chapter 2 - FROM SOUTH CAROLINA BACKWARDS
Chapter 3 - MOSES WINE IS BORN
Chapter 4 - DADDY RICH, ABBIE, THE BABY MOGULS, AND MY EARLY BRUSH WITH ...
Chapter 6 - PAUL AND THE DAYS OF SUCCESS
Chapter 7 - THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIME WRITERS, THREE TRIPS TO ...
Chapter 8 - EVOLUTION: THE BIRTH OF AN ACCIDENTAL ONLINE APOSTATE CEO
Chapter 9 - FATHER TIMOTHY AND MY THREE WIVES
Chapter 10 - OJ CHANGED MY LIFE
Chapter 11 - WHY THEY HATE THE NEOCONS
Chapter 12 - THE NEW BLACKLIST
Chapter 13 - THE RISE OF THE “MINI-ME”
Chapter 14 - EXTENDED FAMILY VALUES AND THE GODFATHER
Chapter 15 - SATORI IN THE MODERN AGE OF CONSERVATIVE LIBERALS
Praise for Turning Right at Hollywood and Vine, previously published as Blacklisting Myself
“Years ago, I read Roger L. Simon’s first mystery novel, The Big Fix, and I was delighted. Roger was a left liberal then and so was I. Now Roger’s politics and mine have changed, but his gifts as a writer have only grown richer. Blacklisting Myself is a story of Hollywood and America, funny and perceptive at the same time.”
—Michael Barone, U.S. News & World Report, American Enterprise Institute
“Rueful, thoughtful, refreshingly direct, and full of juicy inside stories, Roger L. Simon’s memoir is the best and most intimate account of Hollywood’s politics yet published.”
—John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary
“When I read Roger L. Simon’s witty and riveting Blacklisting Myself, I felt as if I were reading the memoir of my own lost brother. This indispensable and entertaining book is the first to tell the true story of Hollywood and politics from the perspective of someone who actually lived it.”
—Ron Silver, actor and activist
“Anyone who knows Roger Simon knows that he tells great stories about his life in Hollywood before and after 9/11. After becoming what he calls a 9/11 Democrat, Roger discovered that the Hollywood power structure became hostile to its apostates. The former financier of the Black Panther Breakfast Program tells all in his new memoir, with plenty of interesting names included. . . .”
“The philosopher Diogenes is said to have wandered the streets of Athens with a lamp, looking for an honest man. Had he lived in Hollywood, he’d have needed two searchlights, a pack of bloodhounds, and a net. Or he could have just read Roger L. Simon’s new autobiography.”
—City Journal
“. . . alternately funny and sad but [an] always fascinating secondthoughts memoir. . . .”
—Ronald Radosh, National Review
“Hollywood memoirs abound, but not many describe The Motorcycle Diaries, a hymn to Che Guevara, as a ‘puerile fantasy,’ compare Stanley Sheinbaum, a key Hollywood politico, to ‘one of Lenin’s useful idiots,’ and question the intelligence of Barbra Streisand. This long overdue memoir is different and deserved.”
“Mr. Simon’s mantra—one shared on Andrew Breitbart’s new rightleaning entertainment industry blog, Big Hollywood—is that conservatives can’t be content to whine about liberal bias in the entertainment industry. Instead, they need to show they can compete in the business by making good movies.”
—The Washington Times
BY ROGER L. SIMON
Books
HEIR
THE MAMA TASS MANIFESTO
THE BIG FIX
WILD TURKEY
PEKING DUCK
CALIFORNIA ROLL
THE STRAIGHT MAN
RAISING THE DEAD
THE LOST COAST
DIRECTOR’S CUT
BLACKLISTING MYSELF
Screenplays
THE BIG FIX
BUSTIN’ LOOSE (story by Richard Pryor)
MY MAN ADAM
ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY (with Paul Mazursky)
SCENES FROM A MALL (with Paul Mazursky)
PRAGUE DUET (with Sheryl Longin)
for Madeleine
Introduction:
MY OLD LIFE CALLS MY NEW LIFE
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