{"product_id":"comfort-and-joi-9780595335909","title":"Comfort and Joi","description":"\"She was one of the working stiff actors who made American movies a sort of extended family for me. If I don't do this for her, who will?\"\u003cp\u003e Memory and movies collide when the narrator of \u003ci\u003eComfort and Joi\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning screenwriter Joseph Dougherty's imaginative blend of fiction and film fact, sets out to document the life and work of bosomy blonde bombshell Joi Lansing, a minor glamour girl who appeared in such \"classics\" as \u003ci\u003eHillbillys in a Haunted House\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eQueen of Outer Space\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Alone in a borrowed house on the California coast during a winter weekend, he indulges his fascination with the pin-up who rose from extra girl to work with Orson Welles, only to end her career in grade-z horror pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Offbeat movie history from the fringes of Hollywood triggers haunting personal memories as he follows this \"beautiful beacon in a Sargasso of bad filmmaking\" and finds an unexpected path to his own past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Dougherty is a humanist who argues that each of us has to look, listen, choose, and commit. His work is as encouraging as it is enlightening.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Douglas Heil, \u003ci\u003ePrime-Time Authorship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Dougherty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/17\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780595335909\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40682909925491,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":13.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_da668e87-c06e-4372-8927-01ae044731f0.jpg?v=1674830688","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/comfort-and-joi-9780595335909","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}