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    You Know What I Like To Do At Four O'Clock, Ed? (Short Story)
    You Know What I Like To Do At Four O'Clock, Ed? (Short Story)
    You Know What I Like To Do At Four O'Clock, Ed? (Short Story)
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    You Know What I Like To Do At Four O'Clock, Ed? (Short Story)

    By Stefano Boscutti

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    Meet Hollywood’s most inglorious bastard.

    Legendary bad boy movie mogul Don Simpson has just been made the new head of production at Paramount Studios. As he waits for a journalist to arrive for a customary interview, he reflects on his hectic life so far. A life that has seen him rise from Nowhereville, Alaska to the top of the Hollywood food chain.

    “You Know What I Like to do at Four O’Clock, Ed” is a fast and furious Hollywood story. It’s a scene sliced right out of Don Simpson’s life.

    Can the ferocious Simpson win over the journalist from the L.A. Times?

    ‘The average Hollywood tycoon prefers to be discreet about such plunder. But Don Simpson was an animal, and the suave masters in silk suits were tickled that he was so naked, so acting out with it.’ The Independent

    ‘Uninhibited and altogether fascinating story of a man who created Hollywood in his image.’ Michael Anderson

    ‘Fast, messy, and outrageously fierce. It’s a true mythic blowout.’ Carla Pestalozzi

    ‘Glimpse into a life lived hard, fast and without apology.’ Jim Scarpe

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStefano Boscutti
    Release dateAug 21, 2010
    ISBN9780980712506
    You Know What I Like To Do At Four O'Clock, Ed? (Short Story)
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    Stefano Boscutti

    STEFANO BOSCUTTI is an award-winning writer and director.He loves stories about true mavericks and outsiders who want to change the world. Larger than life characters who either wildly succeed or go down in flames. (Often both at the same time.) Boscutti's stories are usually laced with humor and a ton of irony.

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      You Know What I Like To Do At Four O'Clock, Ed? (Short Story) - Stefano Boscutti

      'Don Simpson symbolized the kind of extravagant, excessive, larger-than-life figure who is drawn to Hollywood, one whose personal demons grow hand in hand with successes and personal fortunes.' The New York Times

      YOU KNOW WHAT I LIKE TO DO AT FOUR O'CLOCK, ED?

      Stefano Boscutti

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2010 by Stefano Boscutti.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This is a work of fiction. While many of the characters portrayed here have counterparts in the life and times of Don Simpson, the characterizations and incidents presented are totally the products of the author's imagination.

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      YOU KNOW WHAT I LIKE TO DO AT FOUR O'CLOCK, ED?

      It's the biggest, whitest desk in the biggest, whitest office on the Paramount lot.

      White walls with white linen easy chairs and couches. Everything gleams all the brighter because the desk is topped by a single sheet of thick white glass.

      DON SIMPSON, 38, sits behind the desk, alone. He leans forward and wipes off a smudge on the cold glass with the side of his thumb. By nineteen eighty-one I was president

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