:08:02
I should have realised something was up.
:08:05
A man had been tailing me for over two weeks.
:08:08
I thought my wife must have employed
a private dick.
:08:14
I did ask him, but he got upset.
:08:16
He was too big to upset twice,
so I tried to ignore him,
:08:20
which in this case was difficult.
:08:41
Later I was to find
out who he was, that tame gorilla
:08:45
who followed my everywhere.
:08:51
I rode a cab round to my publisher,
:08:53
Milos Marcovic,
the Greco-Albanian born in Budapest,
:08:57
whose talent for writing book covers is such
even the author doesn't recognise his own work.
:09:02
Sylvana... get this down.
:09:05
Marcovic was responsible for all the
aggravation that was about to hit me.
:09:10
Hollywood, an empire in decay, comma.
:09:16
Ruled by a twisted emperor, comma.
:09:21
And the desires and tantrums...
:09:23
...of a strange girl whose secret
became a big screen Technicolor...
:09:29
...nightmare. New paragraph.
:09:32
Sam Nectar was his name.
:09:35
An unknown oriental girl was his obsession.
:09:38
Sam cast her as a Negro slave,
:09:42
only to find himself cast as a slave
to her desires. New paragraph.
:09:48
What the critics said: