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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled The Other Side of Me about Hollywood, I>The, Reed with the genre: Humor & Entertainment, Movies.
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conversations.value: Bestselling novelist the author's memoir is reminiscent of his colorful novels, a rags-to-riches yarn replete with struggle, an indomitable hero and eventual glamour. It opens with a 17-year-old the author preparing to commit suicide in Chicago in 1934. "[L]onely and trapped," he wanted to attend college but couldn't afford it. Thankfully, his father intervened, and the young man got a new lease on life. He went from being an RKO theater usher to a struggling songwriter, then a top-flight Hollywood screenwriter in a few short years. For the next 30-odd years, the author wrote and directed films, meeting studio honchos and stars like Kirk Douglas, Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe. The author's impressive achievements include a WWII flying stint, a screenwriting Oscar for 1947's <I>The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer</I>, a Tony for writing the 1959 Broadway hit <I>Redhead</I>, the creation of four classic TV series (including <I>I Dream of Jeannie</I>) and several bestsellers (<I>Bloodline</I>; <I>The Sands of Time</I>; etc.). Yet these accomplishments came with bouts of depression and the death of a child. While the book is long on the author's Hollywood and television days, it skimps on his domestic and publishing lives. Still, that shouldn't stop the author's legions of fans from lapping this up. <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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conversations.value: Reverse the sentences.
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conversations.value: All rights reserved.. <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Still, that shouldn't stop the author's legions of fans from lapping this up. While the book is long on the author's Hollywood and television days, it skimps on his domestic and publishing lives. Yet these accomplishments came with bouts of depression and the death of a child.). The author's impressive achievements include a WWII flying stint, a screenwriting Oscar for 1947's <I>The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer</I>, a Tony for writing the 1959 Broadway hit <I>Redhead</I>, the creation of four classic TV series (including <I>I Dream of Jeannie</I>) and several bestsellers (<I>Bloodline</I>; <I>The Sands of Time</I>; etc. For the next 30-odd years, the author wrote and directed films, meeting studio honchos and stars like Kirk Douglas, Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe. He went from being an RKO theater usher to a struggling songwriter, then a top-flight Hollywood screenwriter in a few short years. Thankfully, his father intervened, and the young man got a new lease on life. "[L]onely and trapped," he wanted to attend college but couldn't afford it. It opens with a 17-year-old the author preparing to commit suicide in Chicago in 1934.Bestselling novelist the author's memoir is reminiscent of his colorful novels, a rags-to-riches yarn replete with struggle, an indomitable hero and eventual glamour
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conversations.value: Provide the first five paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: The Other Side of Me
  Rushing back inside, I grabbed a handful of pens and half a dozen yellow pads I could have replaced at any dime store, because somewhere deep inside me I thought we might have to spend a few weeks in a hotel, and I instinctively knew I could not let my writing be interrupted. That was all I took from the house.
  It was good to be back at Paramount. It had given me so many wonderful memories. There were still a lot of familiar faces around—producers, directors, writers, secretaries. I felt that I had come home again.
  As I walked into his office, he rose. "I asked for you," he said, "because I think this picture is right up your alley."
  Edmund Beloin and Maurice Richlin had written the screenplay and it was excellent, but Don was right. It had to be tailored for Dean and Shirley. They were both such distinctive personalities that the adaptation was easy, and I began writing.
  One evening, when I got home from the studio, Jorja was waiting for me with a large bouquet of flowers. She was beaming.
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conversations.value: I took a deep breath. "I'm doing a comedy. I don't intend to make it titillating. There will be no sexual innuendoes or double entendres."
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conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
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conversations.value: I took a deep breath. "I'm doing a comedy. I don't intend to make it titillating. There will be no sexual innuendoes or double entendres.
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conversations.value: Provide the last five paragraphs.. Start with the sentence 'In 1985, my lovely Jorja died of a heart attack'.
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conversations.value: In 1985, my lovely Jorja died of a heart attack. It was an unbelievable loss and there was an emptiness in my life that I felt would never be filled.
  It was a little over three years later when it happened. I met Alexandra Kostoff and my life changed. She is all the women I had written about—intelligent, beautiful, and amazingly talented, and it was love at first sight. We had a private wedding in Las Vegas, with only family there.
  As a surprise, my buddy Marty Allen and his wife, Karon, appeared. The multitalented Karon played a wedding march on the piano that she had written, and the wedding went on.
  To my great delight, my daughter, Mary, has become a writer. To date, she has had ten novels published. My granddaughter, Lizy, had a novel published when she was sixteen. I expect ten-year-old Rebecca to be next.
  I treasure the roller-coaster thrill ride that my life has been. It has been an exciting and wonderful journey. I am grateful to Otto, who convinced me to keep turning the pages, and to Natalie, for her unshakable faith in me.