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Ben Elton's multi-award winning career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past thirty-five years. In addition to his hugely influential work as a stand-up comic, he was co-writer of TV hits The Young Ones and Blackadder and sole creator of The Thin Blue Line and Upstart Crow. He has written fifteen major bestsellers, including Stark, Popcorn, Inconceivable, Dead Famous, High Society, Two Brothers and Time and Time Again, three West End plays and three musicals, including global phenomenon We Will Rock You. He has written and directed two feature films, Maybe Baby and Three Summers. He is married and has three children.
Ben Elton is a famous English stand-up comedian and playwright. This, his third novel, is a moral tale set in Hollywood, written with the cold eye and pen of Swift, with the oratorical anger of Tom Paine or Daniel Defoe. In the finest tradition of English satirical novels, Popcorn manages also to be engrossing, funny, and peopled with characters all too real. Bruce Delamitri is an Oliver Stone/Quentin Tarantino-type filmmaker held captive by some extraordinarily unsavoury admirers, and, in a denouement characteristic of the 90s, there are no easy answers. But the journey raises plenty of issues while providing some aghast laughter en route, as Elton proves he is no bleeding heart liberal. (Kirkus UK)
