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tommooney's review
4.0
BLACK SUNSET by Clancy Sigal.
This memoir of a 50s Hollywood agent is a real treat. Sigal was a fascinating figure. After serving in Germany during the clean-up at the end of WW2, he attempted to kill Goering at the Nurenburg trials, being disarmed by a fellow soldier moments before.
He returned to the US and went to UCLA on the GI bill. He then became part of a communist cell and fell into a job as a talent agent at Sam Jaffe's agency, where they handled everyone from jobbing scriptwriters like John Fante and James Agee to huge stars like Humphrey Bogart.
Black Sunset is the brilliant story of this period of his life as he works the sleazy world of the movies while being hounded by FBI agents during the height of McCarthyism.
Anyone interested in the movies or McCarthyism will love this book. The writing is glorious, like James Ellroy living in Chandler's LA. It's great.
This memoir of a 50s Hollywood agent is a real treat. Sigal was a fascinating figure. After serving in Germany during the clean-up at the end of WW2, he attempted to kill Goering at the Nurenburg trials, being disarmed by a fellow soldier moments before.
He returned to the US and went to UCLA on the GI bill. He then became part of a communist cell and fell into a job as a talent agent at Sam Jaffe's agency, where they handled everyone from jobbing scriptwriters like John Fante and James Agee to huge stars like Humphrey Bogart.
Black Sunset is the brilliant story of this period of his life as he works the sleazy world of the movies while being hounded by FBI agents during the height of McCarthyism.
Anyone interested in the movies or McCarthyism will love this book. The writing is glorious, like James Ellroy living in Chandler's LA. It's great.
rakesh_pedram's review against another edition
4.0
I had always thought she is a Parsi emmigrant who made living writing about India. He stories reveal her strong dislike of the culture and people as such and she is vocal about it. Despite that i like her literary style and the details she captures in short stories. Enjoyed reading it though it gives a very biased view of the nation.
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