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Genre: Biography

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Title:  The Man and His Shadow

Logline:  The Man and His Shadow is the story of two men divided by an ocean and time, who would become spiritual brothers: Poe giving creative life to Baudelaire, as Baudelaire gave Poe to the world.

Synopsis:
One might say that nature often makes life very hard for those from whom she expects great things. She did this for two of the nineteenth century’s greatest literary minds. The Man and His Shadow tells the story of Edgar Allan Poe, through Charles Baudelaire’s discovery of the now famed American gothic writer, whose life so closely mirrored his own. The Man and His Shadow is an extensively researched biography about two men, whose belief that the primitive and irresistible force of perversity marks us for evil, making us all simultaneously a murderer and a suicide, an assassin and a hangman. Through his seventeen year struggle to translate Poe, Charles Baudelaire, author of Le Flur Du Mal, embarks on a quest that will consume the rest of his life. The bonds that posthumously formed between Poe and Baudelaire would forever suture their kindred spirits and literary minds, once leading Baudelaire to admit that, “several years have passed and I have been constantly haunted by his ghost.”

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Title:  BUCKLEY!

Logline:  Lord Richard Buckley, the first Hip comedian, paved the way for comics such as Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, and Robin Williams. He lived a life of glamor, comic insanity, and pain.

Synopsis:
A cross between LENNY and LA VIE EN ROSE, (although more entertaining than either), BUCKLEY! traces the remarkable life and times of Dick Buckley. Born in poverty in northern California in 1906, Buckley was a revolutionary figure in the stand-up biz, and a star from Vaudeville through 1960. But - much as with Edith Piaf - the same unique personality and avant garde lifestyle that made him such a success on stage, led inevitably to a tragic end. From the Walkathons of the Depression, thru Vaudeville, appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, several films, and all the top jazz clubs from San Francisco to New York, Buckley lived a life of extreme highs and excruciating lows. He hosted a party in Chicago that continued for years non-stop; he founded his own church; he hob-nobbed with Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Robert Mitchum. And in the end? He died broken and impoverished, but not forgotten. Robin Williams and George Carlin are just two of many fans. BUCKLEY! will make many more.

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Title:  Zora

Logline:  The dramatic ascent of Zora Neale Hurston - from the dust tracks of the Deep South to literary icon. Premiere female writer of the Harlem Renaissance glitterati.

Synopsis:
The screenplay "Zora" captures Hurston reeling from her father’s rejection, homelessness, abusive relationships, experimental lesbianism, hypnotic voodoo exploits, and a torrid love affair with a man twenty years her younger. In "Zora", Hurston struggles between wanting love and achieving national acclaim as a writer. Her impassioned journey is revealed as scenes that inspired her semi-autobiographical novels, "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and "Jonah’s Gourd Vine", come to life and Hurston courageously turns personal pain into genius – a genius that would speak to an entire nation. The story is one that we feel very close to and has led us to acquire the rights to the biography "Wrapped In Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston." We have done extensive research on the period and sold a script about the famous black actress Dorothy Dandridge to De Passe Entertainment. Please let us know if you would like to read "Zora".

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