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LEWIS B. FRUMKES RADIO SHOW

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2008 Hammett Prize Nominee for Crime Writing, Foreword Magazine & Independent Press Awards for Mystery/Thriller of the Year

LEADING LADY (Book)

An escaped con out for revenge. A super spy on a secret mission. A mafia captain who has to kill or be killed. And a young actress who has to give the performance of her life- just to stay alive. Their lives collide on a cold winter’s day in New York in Heywood Gould’s new thriller.

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LEADING LADY (Audiobook)

Tolmitch Productions presents “Leading Lady,” as a dramatized audiobook with a full cast and original music. Written and directed by Heywood Gould, author of Fort Apache, the Bronx, Cocktail and Double Bang, Starring Richard Portnow, Beege Barkette.

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AutoBARography7: MY SHORT CAREER AS A GAY BARTENDER/PART FIVE

THE END OF A PERFECT EVENING

It's 1973 and nobody goes home until they run out of money, drugs or hope. At 3:45 am Le jardin in the Hotel Diplomat on Times Square, is so crowded that short people are having trample anxiety. The dance floor is too jammed to do anything but bump and grind. The DJ has forsworn elegant variation and is blasting one jump tune after another. Drunks pass out and are held up by the crowd. People hang over the ledges of the roof garden nine stories up, flashing boobs, dropping pants.

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AutoBARography7: MY SHORT CAREER AS A GAY BARTENDER/PART FOUR

IS THAT REALLY BIANCA JAGGER?

So I'm tending bar in the newest, hippest club in the universe. Before the night is over I might even make cigarette change for a celebrity. But I'm still a scuffler who pays child support with crumpled tip money. Le jardin is dead and it looks like I'm going to get stiffed on a Saturday night...

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AutoBARography7: MY SHORT CAREER AS A GAY BARTENDER/PART THREE

DISCO FEVER

NEW YORK, July '73... Discos have exploded out of the hard partying gay sub culture. Everybody wants to wear glitter...Get loaded...Dance with wild abandon...Everybody but me. I want to get a pastrami sandwich and go to the James Cagney festival at the Bleecker Cinema. It's a drug culture. Booze is not a factor. Most places just serve juice to wash down the drugs. And the drugs are all about sex.

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AutoBARography7: MY SHORT CAREER AS A GAY BARTENDER/PART TWO

PARIS, 1961. Grown ups run the world. Nobody has heard of Vietnam. Doris Day is Number One at the box office. Every time Mickey Mantle hits a home run the Yankees send 5000 cartons of Camels to the Veterans hospitals. Men wear fedoras and couples hold each other when they dance. The big thing is to be a "non-conformist." Jean Paul Belmondo in Breathless is my role model. I'm going to be cool, doomed and irresistible. I drop out of Brooklyn College in my first semester, cash in my $800 Regents Scholarship and hop a German freighter to Bremerhaven. Two weeks later I'm in a fleabag on the Left Bank, wondering what do with the bidet.

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AutoBARography7: MY SHORT CAREER AS A GAY BARTENDER/PART ONE

THE HOTTEST SPOT IN TOWN

July '73, Times Square, New York...There's a recession on, but you can't tell by me. I've got a bar job-- twenty-seven bucks a night and all the goldfish I can eat. It's at the Hotel Diplomat, an SRO on 43rd. St. and Sixth Ave. We call it "the Roach Motel" because once you check in you don't check out.

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