{"product_id":"the-valley-obscured-by-smog","title":"The Valley Obscured by Smog","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Valley Obscured by Smog\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-language: TA;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-language: TA;\"\u003eW. Paul Apel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e212 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e6x9 size\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003eISBN \u003cspan lang=\"EN-IN\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\"\u003e9798905350023\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e             \u003c\/span\u003eThe Valley Obscured by Smog\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-IN\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\"\u003e9798905350030\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e             \u003c\/span\u003eThe Valley Obscured by Smog hb\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-IN\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eHe came for Hollywood. He found Ed Wood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eSummer, 1977. Fresh out of college, Alan Starkwell arrives in Los Angeles to become a screenwriter. Within a week he's writing dirty stories for a smut magazine in a windowless office.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eWorking across the hall: Ed Wood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eOnce Hollywood's most ambitious, if not most talented, filmmaker, Wood is now broke, drunk and forgotten. Like his favorite angora sweater, he's falling apart at the seams. But when a small-time pornographer offers him one last chance to make a movie, he pulls Alan along with him into a world of faded celebrities, borrowed coffins and... wolf mummies?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eAlong the way Alan dines and dashes with John Holmes, talks shop with Charles Bukowski, crashes Keith Moon's beach party and falls for the lead singer of The Castration Squad. None of it goes particularly well. But it'll make a great screenplay!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e\"Apel's sensitive and honest depiction of Ed Wood's persona . . . portrays Ed and Kathy Wood just as I knew them. I often found myself watching a film in my mind's eye while reading it. I was truly moved by this paean to Wood, a filmmaker who relentlessly chased his dream.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e— Robert Cremer, author of \u003ci\u003eBéla Lugosi: The Man Behind the Cape\u003c\/i\u003e, who interviewed Ed Wood in the 1970s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-IN\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BearManor Media","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52155707621678,"sku":"9798905350023","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":52155707654446,"sku":"9798905350024","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0115\/5789\/6251\/files\/TheValleyObscuredbySmog_frontcover96dpi.jpg?v=1780746673","url":"https:\/\/www.bearmanormedia.com\/products\/the-valley-obscured-by-smog","provider":"BearManor Media ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}