Author Description

In addition to being lifelong friends, Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake are authors with reputations for writing best-sellers like Semi-Tough, Dead Solid Perfect, and Harvey Penick's Little Red Book (which has sold more than 2.7 million copies).Now Woodford is pleased to bring back into print this 25-year-old collaboration between the two authors -- a biting satire with a prescience even Nostradamus would admire.Limo is a hilarious romp that foretells what television 25 years ago would turn into by the time the new millennium rolled around. The main character, Frank Mallory, is a high-powered network TV executive charged with developing primetime programming for Chambers Broadcasting Company (CBC-TV). The focus of his energies is a breakthrough documentary-style program called Just Up the Street, which observes the typical home life of four American families. (Today, of course, the concept has been popularized by shows like Cops, America's Funniest Home Videos and MTV's The Real World.)To make CBC's TV dream a reality, Mallory must juggle his boss (who likes to be called The Big Guy), his estranged wife (who thinks psychotherapy can explain why her husband is ambitious), and the myriad of daily personal and professional pitfalls on the inside track between corporate Manhattan and Hollywood sound stages.Filled with Jenkins' and Shrake's signature wit and insight, Limo has something for everyone -- from fans of today's real life-style programming to Baby Boomers and beyond. It's pop satire at its very best. With a laugh-out-loud line on every page, the book would make -- behold the irony -- a terrific sitcom.Jenkins and Shrake hold the reprint rights. Woodford isproud to put this book in its fold. And back into print.