Place to Fall

by Roger Director

The executive producer of Moonlighting and a writer for Hill Street Blues presents a funny, often poignant novel. Transplanted New York writer Billy Ziff, after conceiving a phenomenally successful... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679447873
• ISBN13: 9780679447870
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Villard Books
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Funny and Delicious!

This is a funny book about a writer who creates a TV show and his alter ego character, an adventurous Priest who goes around doing "good deeds". It's a great idea on paper and in development, but then an egotistic actor cast in the role of the priest takes over. Rumors abound that the model of the egotistic actor is Bruce Willis ala Moonlighting, but fiction is fiction. It's a fun book and a short entertaining read. Revenge is best served cold.

Painfully hilarious

TV writer and producer turned novelist, Director's debut follows the tradition of fine TV novels. That is, the pace is frenetic, frantic, dog-eat-dog hilarious from first page to last. Character development is mostly limited to transformation from hungry human to insatiable monster.From the start we know the narrator, TV writer Billy Ziff, has torpedoed his own great success. The only questions are how and why. Ziff early on develops a gnawing ulcer. New in Hollywood, he seems bound for failure until his creation of the gushingly good Father Joey makes him an overnight sensation.But troubles sooon set in. His star and former best friend, Tony Paris, begins meddling in every aspect of production. Tony whines, he rages, he sulks, he womanizes. His demands grow ever more outrageous as the price of offending him skyrockets. Director has a biting wit that never flags and a visual acuity that ranges from slapstick to horrific. A painfully funny look at TV values and the meaning of "success."

Funny and VERY Accurate

Having worked in this industry for several years, I can tell you that this book is not only clever and funny, but it is also very accurate. I remember watching Director's work on "Moonlighting" and thinking that it was very special. Now I look forward to his next book

The definitive insiders view of television and it's "stars".

Roger Director has written a personal no holds barred account of his years as a writer in TV land. A thinly disguised fictional account of a novice writer and his trip into the big time world of series television, A Place to Fall is a intriguing, sensitive account of a writer who gives a spoiled star and a greedy network chief their ultimate "just rewards". Director, a former writer/producer for such series as Hill Street Blues and Moonlighting, uses his personal knowledge of the system to create a b