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Drama / Characters: 6m, 2fBiographer Bill Lauder has penned a ruthless tell-all about Karla Daven, a long dead legendary 1950''s starlet. As a result, he is summoned in the middle of the night to the dilapidated mansion of Karla''s celebrity husband, Harold Bachman, a reclusive director who makes the outlandish claim that Karla''s ghost has threatened to kill him this very night unless Bill calls off the publication of his tawdry book of lies. What follows is an intense evening where memory wrestles with myth in order to find the truth. As Harold gets deeper into exposing Bill''s lies about Karla, he is forced to confront the lies he''s told himself - lies about himself as a filmmaker, a husband, and as a man. Harold must not only save himself from Karla''s ghost, but from the ghosts of an unrealized life.* WINNER *1994 Drama-Logue Critics AwardOutstanding Achievement in Writing Steven Peros'' intriguing play is a well wrought tale of love and loss, set against the sweeping background

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      Publisher: Samuel French Inc
      Publication Date: 9/28/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780573697241, 978-0573697241
      ISBN10: 0573697248

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      Book Synopsis
      Drama / Characters: 6m, 2fBiographer Bill Lauder has penned a ruthless tell-all about Karla Daven, a long dead legendary 1950''s starlet. As a result, he is summoned in the middle of the night to the dilapidated mansion of Karla''s celebrity husband, Harold Bachman, a reclusive director who makes the outlandish claim that Karla''s ghost has threatened to kill him this very night unless Bill calls off the publication of his tawdry book of lies. What follows is an intense evening where memory wrestles with myth in order to find the truth. As Harold gets deeper into exposing Bill''s lies about Karla, he is forced to confront the lies he''s told himself - lies about himself as a filmmaker, a husband, and as a man. Harold must not only save himself from Karla''s ghost, but from the ghosts of an unrealized life.* WINNER *1994 Drama-Logue Critics AwardOutstanding Achievement in Writing Steven Peros'' intriguing play is a well wrought tale of love and loss, set against the sweeping background

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