Author Nancy Rommelmann on Her New Novel 'The Bad Mother' and the Myth of Hollywood
Author and journalist Nancy Rommelmann says that Hollywood sends this message to people: "If you show up, I'm going to deliver your destiny. But you've got to stay, you've got to believe in me."
The death of the Hollywood dream runs through Rommelmann's new novel, The Bad Mother . The work follows teenagers living on the streets on and around Hollywood Blvd,, a place that combines a seedy reality with the enduring Tinseltown dream.
Rommelmann sat down with Senior Editor at Reason Tim Cavanaugh to discuss the book.
Topics include: Why city money can't save Hollywood; why readers mistake The Bad Mother for a work of non-fiction; and why Spiderman is really just a 60-year-old out-of-work actor.
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nancyromm (at) gmail (dot) com
Why do people still do this?
For a gmail account no less.
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I thought it was because it helped (though was no guarantee against) spambots sending you spam.
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insert (prevent) above
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yeah but do people have spam problems anymore?
I use a gmail account and splash my gmail address all over the internet.
I don't seem to have a spam problem anymore.
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I have a hotmail account that I've never even looked at. I don't know why anyone would solicit email (spam or otherwise) if they valued their privacy and sanity.
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I'd be more likely to read a book called "The Bad Mother" if it were written by Laurence Tureaud.
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Tarantino, adapt this novel, right fucking now.
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nah, he only rips-off westerns, japanese, & italian films
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I could see Tarantino doing "Bad Motherfucker", though.
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Pam Greer is
The Bad Motherfucker
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Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. Also starring: Michael Madsen; John Travolta; Harvey Keitel; Tim Roth; Quentin Tarentino; stop me....
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I thought that cat Shaft was the bad mutha .. shut yo mouth.
But I'm talkin' bout Shaft.
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why readers mistake The Bad Mother for a work of non-fiction
Because she's a journalist writing in the naturalist style?
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Because memoirists have ground non-genre fiction down to a fine nub?
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You know who else was a man with the last name Rommel?
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Mr. Rommel?
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Yeah, him.
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That's Herr Feldmarschall Rommel to you!
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the desert fox babieeee!
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She does seem to know what the deal is. Very cool indeed.
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I don't care whether she is a bad mother, I want to know if she is a naughty mother.
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trying to decide if she's bonable
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If that skirt rides up any higher, Mr. Happy will make the decision for me...
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Hubbla-bubbla va-va-va-voomski
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"If you show up, I'm going to deliver your destiny. But you've got to stay, you've got to believe in me."
Huh? Clearly not the target market for this book...
Also, fuck California.
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Gee, I wonder where Tim buys his furniture...
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nancy's fuckin sexy as hell. complete milf, and her facebook picture is her naked with another hot ass girl
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Finally. A novel about suffering and hopelessness.
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is good