{"product_id":"the-manhattan-beach-project-peter-lefcourt-9781416572763","title":"The Manhattan Beach Project","description":"\u003cb\u003eBarely four years after winning an Oscar, Charlie has sunk into the ranks of Hollywood bottom-feeders -- reduced to living in his nephew's pool house, kiting checks and taking the bus to his weekly Debtors Anonymous meeting, where he meets a mysterious ex-CIA agent who proposes to resuscitate Charlie's foundering career -- in the beyond surreal world of reality TV.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharlie puts his tap shoes on to sell a show about a ruthless Uzbek warlord and his family (\"think \u003ci\u003eThe Osbournes\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eThe Sopranos\"\u003c\/i\u003e) to a rogue division of ABC, known as ABCD, which operates out of a skunkworks in Manhattan Beach, California, and whose mandate is to develop, under top secret cover like that for the Manhattan Project, extreme reality TV shows to bolster the network's ratings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWarlord\u003c\/i\u003e becomes a breakout hit and results not only in causing one of America's largest entertainment conglomerates to go into full damage-control mode but also in shifting the balance of power in Central Asia and in proving that in show business it's not over till the mouse sings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lefcourt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1416572767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781416572763\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Peter Lefcourt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458118037759,"sku":"9781416572763","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2bf5ecfb-cc89-4093-98e2-262d46713c49.jpg?v=1777402484","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-manhattan-beach-project-peter-lefcourt-9781416572763","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}