The Godfather Was A Girl And Blanche Dubois Was A Guy

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Publisher Place: Richmond
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: First Edition

Description: 356 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Eamon Evans Tracks Down Over 300 People Who Helped Inspire Classic Novels, TV Shows And Movies.

Publishers Description: More than 300 fascinating stories of the real people behind iconic fictional charactersfrom the neighborhood suicide who inspired Tolstoy to write Anna Karenina to the X-Men characters inspired by MLK and Malcolm X "Why waste time with this insignificant and irrelevant part of the book when you could be discovering the story of who JD from Scrubs was based on" from the foreword Did you know that the inspiration for Rocky Balboa once lost at wrestling to Andre the Giant That Ali G was actually based on a real, white, middle-class Jamaican-accented hip hop DJ Or that most of the main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird were inspired by Harper Lees own family, neighbors, and an innocent man, Walter Lett, who was sentenced to death Eamon Evans has tracked down extraordinary and entertaining examples of real-life people who helped inspire classic novels, movies, and television. Find out who the basis was for Lois Lane, AbFabs Eddie Monsoon, the Simpsons Mr. Burns, Charlie Brown, Will and Grace, Porgy and Bess, Professor Snape, Boogie Nights Dirk Diggler, Betty Boop, Sally Bowles, Dr. Strangelove, and many other iconic characters.

ISBN: 9781740669894