Hollywood (novel)
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Hollywood (ISBN 0876857659) is a 1989 novel by Charles Bukowski which fictionalizes his experiences surrounding the film Barfly. This book traces the experience of the fictional screenwriter Chinaski from his writing of the screenplay through to its completion. He is actively involved only as screenplay writer. Bukowski did enjoy a brief cameo in the film itself, as one of the many barflies.
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Names and titles (along with corresponding real-life counterparts) include:
Chapter 1
Henry Chinaski (Charles Bukowski)
Sarah Chinaski (Linda Lee Bukowski)
Jon Pinchot (Barbet Schroeder)
Paul Renoir
Popppy
Chapter 2
Danny Server
Francois Racine (François Truffaut)
Harold Pheasant
Chapter 3
Wenner Zergog (Werner Herzog)
Lido Mamin (Idi Amin)
The Laughing Beast (General Idi Amin Dada)
Chapter 4
Tab Jones (Tom Jones)
Chapter 5
Mack Derouac (Jack Kerouac)
Chapter 6
Jean-Paul Sanrah (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Henri-Leon Sanrah
Jon-Luc Modard (Jean-Luc Godard)
Francis Ford Lopalla (Francis Ford Coppola)
Chapter 7
Karl Vossner (Carl Weissner)
Chapter 8
Vin Marbad
Michael Huntington
Darby Evans (Blake Edwards?)
Chapter 9
Dennis Body
Chapter 10
Lila Gant
Darlene
Double Quartet
Chapter 13
Giselle
Metra
Chapter 14
Pat Sellers
Chapter 18
Mack Austin (Dennis Hopper)
Tom Pell (Sean Penn)
Ramona (Madonna)
Chapter 19
Jack Bledsoe (Mickey Rourke)
Lenny Fidelo (Frank Stallone)
Francine Bowers (Faye Dunaway)
The Dance of Jim Beam (Barfly)
Chapter 20
Firepower Productions (Cannon Group)
Harry Friedman (Yoram Globus/Menahem Golan)
Nate Fischman (Yoram Globus/Menahem Golan)
Lippy Leo Durocher (Lefty Gomez)
Tim Ruddy (Tom Luddy)
Victor Norman (Norman Mailer)
Chapter 21
Jim Serry (Timothy Leary)
Chapter 22
Lance Edwards
Chapter 25
Neeli Zutnick
Chapter 26
Shipping Clerk (Post Office)
Fletcher Jaystone
Hector Blackford (Taylor Hackford)
Chapter 28
Cleo
Chapter 30
Tommy Henderson
Helga
Chapter 32
Hyans (Robby Müller)
Chapter 35
Rick Talbot (Roger Ebert?)
Kirby Hudson (Gene Siskel?)
Jane
Sesteenov (Errol Morris?)
Illiantovitch
Chapter 36
Manz Loeb (David Lynch)
The Rat Man (The Elephant Man)
Pencilhead (Eraserhead)
Rosalind Bonelli (Isabella Rossellini)
Chapter 37
Corbell Veeker (Helmut Newton)
Chapter 38
Andre Wells
Chapter 39
Kay Bronstein (Eva Gardos)
Chapter 41
Tully
Nadine
Rich
Chapter 43
Frank
Chapter 45
Carl Wilson
Notes of a Neanderthal Man (Notes of a Dirty Old Man)
John Galt
Lisa
Babs Danish
Tip Danish
Sam the Whorehouse Man
Chapter 46
Wexler
Selby
Darlene
