Oscargate

OscarGate has drama, violence and a lot of New York individuality in describing the hostile takeover of a Hollywood movie studio by an industrial conglomerate and the adverse impact of its heavy-handed Management Style on artistic personnel. It is about a group of individuals who fight back and risk their careers and possible bankruptcy by using escape clauses to get out of their employment contracts. Unique because it contains quite a bit of Neil Simon type humor, the repartee is at the core of a very special group of characters, each of who grew up on the sidewalks of New York. The trial at the end of the book is memorable and exciting because of the brisk dialogue of the witnesses. The testimony of the defendants keeps the reader in a page turning mode until the story's surprising ending.