{"id":869,"date":"2004-10-09T23:59:35","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T23:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/10\/death_by_hollyw\/"},"modified":"2004-10-09T23:59:35","modified_gmt":"2004-10-09T23:59:35","slug":"death_by_hollyw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/death_by_hollyw\/","title":{"rendered":"Death by Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Death by Hollywood<\/a> is famed TV produced, Steven Bocho’s first novel. Bocho<\/a>, you’ll recall was the mastermind behind many award winning TV series including Hill Street Blues, LA Law and NYPD Blue.
\nHe hasn’t really departed from what he knows, combining an engrossing look at behind the scenes Hollywood wheeler-dealing amongst agents, writers and actors, with your basic crime novel. Told from the point of view of a nameless agent, we learn the story of Bobby, a writer who’s had his ups and downs, who witnesses a murder and begins to realise that he could turn it into a killer<\/i> screenplay.
\nAlong the way, we’re entertained with amusing anecdotes that you feel may not be too far away from the truth at all. In particular, towards the end, we learn about “Daniel” an actor who hits in big in the first season of a new series that sometimes shoots in New York. He decides to head for the movies, and after making completely unreasonable demands that he knows the TV company won’t be able to make, he heads off to make films, and notably fail to find the fame and fortune he was expecting. I’m sure that anyone mistaking this as having at a go at David Caruso, who famously left NYPD Blue after being a hit in its first season, and then notably falling short in the movies (before ending up back on TV in CSI Miami a good few years later), would surely be wide of the mark. I don’t know how many of the anecdotes that appear in print here are based on reality, but I’d guess that more are than aren’t.
\nAs a book, it does its job well enough, although it won’t last you much longer than a made for TV movie in terms of length.
\nUPDATE: This is really worth noting! Somewhere around the middle of the book, we get to read the treatment for a movie about a talking dog who becomes president. In fact, it’s more the case of a talking dog supplying the script idea for the talking dog as president movie. The dog goes on to supply a couple more ideas, including one where a popular professor at a college is also a covert member of the CIA (think original series of Alias), and a cop series where a detective in blinded but instead of then taking a desk job, remains in the field and has to rely on others and use his remaining senses to the full. This was going to be called Blind Justice. In the book, it gets pitched to producer.
\nWell guess what? Steven Bocho really has produced Blind Justice<\/a> and it hits our screens sometime next February. The premise of the series is exactly the same!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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