Be cool
by Elmore Leonard
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"Chili Palmer's follow-up to his smash hit film Get Leo bombed, and in Hollywood, you're considered only as hot as your last project. Once again outside the system, Chili is exploring an idea for his third film by lunching with a former "associate" from his Brooklyn days who's now a record label executive. When lunch begins with iced tea and ends in a mob hit, Chili soon finds himself in an unlikely alliance with one of the LAPD's finest.
Detective Darryl Holmes, and the very likely next target of Russian gangsters.".
"With a hit man on his trail, Chili tries to pull together his next movie, the story of Linda Moon, a real-life singer with dreams that go further than her current gig. She's desperate to tear loose from her current manager, an erstwhile pimp named Raji. Orchestrating his movie as he goes along, Chili wrests the reins of Linda's singing career away from Raji, basing the plot of his new film on the action that unfolds as a result."--BOOK JACKET.
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Fiction, Music trade, Motion picture producers and directors, Criminals, Gangsters, Sound recording industry, Fiction, thrillers, general, Large type books, Fiction, suspense, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Palmer, chili (fictitious character), fiction, California, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Motion picture industry, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, generalShowing 10 featured editions. View all 27 editions?
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After one triumph and one flop, Mafia loan-shark-turned-Hollywood producer Chili Palmer is desperate for another hit... of the celluloid sort. When a similarly relocated former mob associate takes a hit of the bullet-in-the-brain variety while they're power-lunching, Chili begins to see all kinds of story possibilities. The whacked recording company mogul's midday demise is leading Chili into the twisted world of rock stars, pop divas, and hip-hop gangstas, which is rife with drama, jealousy, and betrayal -- all the stuff that makes big box office. Tinsel Town had better take cover, because Chili Palmer's working on another movie. And that's when people tend to die. Leonard's sequel to the highly successful Get Shorty.
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