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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 an ensemble 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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OLYMPICS ARE DOOMED WARNS CHINESE NUMEROLOGIST

BEIJING, China, May 22...When Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympics it was seen as an omen of success. Eight is a lucky number in Chinese numerology. The word for eight sounds similar to the word for "wealth" in the Mandarin dialect and "fortune" in the Cantonese. The Mandarin word for "double eights" also resembles the word for "double joy." According to Wikipedia, the telephone number 8888-8888 was sold for USD $270,723 in Chengdu and a man in Shanghai offered his license plate of A88888 for sale for 1.2 million yuan.To lock in their good fortune Chinese officials scheduled the opening of the Olympics for 8/8/08 at 8:08.08 PM."

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AL QAEDA NUMBER TWO ENDORSES SCHILDKRAUT

DOHA, Qatar, May 16th...Citing the "clear threat" to Sunni Islam from what he called "the Obama-Hamas-Ahmenijhad axis" Ayman al Zawahiri, Deputy Commander of Al Qaeda today announced his support for Anarcho-Feminist Leah Schildkraut in the American presidential campaign.Iin a detailed argument, Zawahiri accused Barrack Obama of being "a front man for the Iranian-Zionist conspiracy to dominate the Middle East." He listed three "disturbing omens of Iranian influence:"

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THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: "CANDIDATE CALLS FOR 10% TAX SURCHARGE TO FUND WAR

WASHINGTON,D.C. May 12...Challenging all Americans to "put their money where their mouths are," Leah Schildkraut kicked off her Presidential campaign calling for an immediate and retroactive 10% tax surcharge to fund the war in iraq. Schildkraut, who is running on the Anarcho-Feminist ticket told a press conference on the grounds of the Walter Reed Army Hospital that "this war is the only one in American history that has not been financed by emergency short-term tax increases."

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IS GOOGLE STILL COOL? POLLSTER SAYS NO

NEW YORK, N.Y. May 9th...Google just grew. That's the beauty of a search engine. It just grew again. Google is recession proof. It's stock price has gone from 85 to 572. It employs 4,000 plus.
It just added another employee. And it just grew again. But one aspect of Google is shrinking--its hip rating. And pollster Efraim Durg says this may bode ill for the Googlefuture.

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GAMBLERS TO CANDIDATES: BET'EM OR FOLD'EM

Las Vegas, May7…Forget about the black loyalists, the white backlashers, the blue collar red-staters or the white collar blue-staters, Efraim Durg knows who holds the key to the 2008 election—the online poker players  "The next President will decide whether online gambling is legal or not," Durg says. "And online gamblers will decide who the next president will be."

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"MR CONSUMER," DEAD AT 52

Chelm, Indiana, May 5...A year ago confetti swirled, banners furled and the Chelm High School Marching Band played "Indiana" as Armin Grooskarf was crowned "Mr. Consumer of 2007." On that sunny day Fox and CNN came to this forgotten factory town to hear the manager of the Chelm Wal-Mart read a message from President George W. Bush commending Mr. Grooskarf for his "dedication beyond the call of duty" in the war on terror.

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I'LL MAKE AMERICA HAPPIER, NEW CANDIDATE PROMISES

New York, May 2…Most Americans are poor, depressed, suicidal and dying younger than ever before and nobody's doing anything about it," declared Leah Schildkraut, as she announced her candidacy for the presidency today.
"Too much attention is being paid to the GNP (Gross National Product) and not the GNH, the Gross National Happiness," she said...

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AL QAEDA NUMBER 2 LETS ISRAEL OFF THE HOOK

Kuwait City, May 1…In the aftermath of 9/11 the Arab street was roiled by rumors that the Israeli espionage agency Mossad was responsible for the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. The Israelis had planned the bombings, it was alleged, to goad the US into declaring genocidal war on the Arab world. Now Ayman al-Zawahiri, Deputy Commander of Al Qaeda, has come forward to say that was all a lie. The rumor of the Israeli plot was really a Shiite Iranian plot to discredit the Sunni Arabs...

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MEET THE AUTHOR

THE WRITING CENTER PRESENTS WRITERS' CONFERENCE 2008

JUNE 5, 2008 at 3:15 pm

MARYMOUNT COLLEGE

221 East 71st Street
New York, NY 10021
212/774-0780

Heywood Gould will be on the Fiction Panel for a talk and Q&A. Please join us!

 

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HEYWOOD GOULD

was born in the Bronx and raised in Brooklyn. He got his start as a reporter for the New York Post. Later he financed years of rejection with the usual colorful jobs including, cabdriver, mortician’s assistant industrial floor waxer, bartender and screenwriter. He has written twelve books and nine screenplays, among them “Fort Apache, The Bronx” Boys From Brazil,” “Cocktail” and Rolling Thunder.

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