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Joe Eszterhas


Born
in Csákánydoroszló, Hungary
November 23, 1944

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction


Joe Eszterhas is a Hungarian-American screenwriter, known for films such as Jagged Edge, Music Box, Basic Instinct and Showgirls. Before becoming a screenwriter he was a journalist and has also written non-fiction books and memoirs.

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Average rating: 3.59 · 1,969 ratings · 270 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors
Hollywood Animal: A Memoir
3.69 avg rating — 673 ratings — published 2003 — 28 editions
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The Devil's Guide to Hollyw...
3.63 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions
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Heaven and Mel
3.41 avg rating — 337 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions
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American Rhapsody
3.22 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 2000 — 28 editions
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Crossbearer: A Memoir of Faith
3.61 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions
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Thirteen Seconds: Confronta...
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3.93 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1970 — 7 editions
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F.I.S.T.
4.04 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1978 — 15 editions
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Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse
3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1973 — 4 editions
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Basic Instinct: The Screenplay
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Nark
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1971 — 4 editions
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“Don't break your own heart.”
― Joe Eszterhas, The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God!
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“They were liberating Harrisonville, showing the hypocrites and phonies and $$$-squirrelers and chokeragged Yesmen some puffed-up balls. They were widening the mental horizons of a town more narrow-minded than its streets; they were missionaries laboring amon their bloodkin: montheytheistic theocentric cousins and uncles who swore allegiance to Uncle Sam, Jim Crow, Oral Roberts, and Dale Carnegie; they were waging their impudent revolution against people they'd cowedly called "sir" all their teenage lives.”
― Joe Eszterhas, Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse
tags: dale-carnegie, harrisonville, jim-crow, oral-roberts
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“Where could you go in Harrisonville?-this smalltime place haunted by by homilies, platitudes, and booshwah.”
― Joe Eszterhas, Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse
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