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[[caption-width-right:400:Art by [[https://neverwear.myshopify.com/products/goldfish-pool David Mack]]]]
[[caption-width-right:400:Art by [[https://neverwear.myshopify.com/products/goldfish-pool David Mack]]]]
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* ShaggyDogStory: Ultimately, the author never writes his treatment or script during the story. He gets so annoyed with how executive after executive veto his work and make him do changes under protest, including changing the whole story to remove Charles Manson.
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* ShaggyDogStory: Ultimately, the author never writes his treatment or script during the story. He gets so too annoyed with how executive after executive veto vetoes his work and make makes him do changes under protest, including changing the whole story to remove Charles Manson.
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* TooManyCooks: When you have too many Hollywood executives who think they know best, you end up spending weeks working on a treatment that may never get read. The author grows increasingly annoyed as his ideas get tossed out and revived.
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* TooManyCooks: TooManyCooksSpoilTheSoup: When you have too many Hollywood executives who think they know best, you end up spending weeks working on a treatment that may never get read. The author grows increasingly annoyed as his ideas get tossed out and revived.
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An unnamed author has sold a bestselling novel about Charles Manson's children. He soon gets the chance to write the script for a film version. The problem is that Hollywood has no stars, and the executives don't know what kind of story they want. As the author struggles to write a treatment for his book, he talks with a local groundskeeper about legends of Hollywood and magic tricks and hears how Jim Belushi may have died.
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An unnamed author has sold a bestselling novel about Charles Manson's children. He soon gets the chance to write the script for a film version. The problem is that Hollywood has no stars, and the executives don't know what kind of story they want. As the author struggles to write a treatment for his book, he talks with a local groundskeeper about legends of Hollywood and magic tricks and hears how Jim John Belushi may have died.
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* DyingAlone: The groundskeeper answers this when the author asks him who was in the hotel room where Jim Belushi died. He says it doesn't matter which person was in the room since they didn't save Belushi.
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* DyingAlone: The groundskeeper answers this when the author asks him who was in the hotel room where Jim John Belushi died. He says it doesn't matter which person was in the room since they didn't save Belushi.Belushi, so he died alone.
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* RashomonStyle: Each person that the author meets has a different guess for which actor was in the hotel room where Belushi overdosed. Except for the one that confuses him with his brother John Belushi.
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* RashomonStyle: Each person that the author meets has a different guess for which actor was in the hotel room where Belushi overdosed. Except for the one that confuses him with his brother John Jim Belushi.
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"The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories" is a short story by Creator/NeilGaiman. It was inspired by his personal experiences in trying to write for Hollywood.
An unnamed author has sold a bestselling novel about Charles Manson's children. He soon gets the chance to write the script for a film version. The problem is that Hollywood has no stars, and the executives don't know what kind of story they want. As the author struggles to write a treatment for his book, he talks with a local groundskeeper about legends of Hollywood and magic tricks and hears how Jim Belushi may have died.
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* AuthorAvatar: The author is meant to be a stand-in for Neil, who did work on several adaptations of his films.
* BittersweetEnding: The author never finishes the screenplay, and the groundskeeper dies on a random day. With that said, the author gains a better appreciation for the experience and leaves saddened but wiser for his home in England.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: One film executive says that they should remove the Charles Manson connection because it may be too controversial. The author snarkily replies his novel was ''all'' about Charles Manson and asks if she even read the book.
* DyingAlone: The groundskeeper answers this when the author asks him who was in the hotel room where Jim Belushi died. He says it doesn't matter which person was in the room since they didn't save Belushi.
* NoNameGiven: We never find out the author's name.
* RashomonStyle: Each person that the author meets has a different guess for which actor was in the hotel room where Belushi overdosed. Except for the one that confuses him with his brother John Belushi.
* ShaggyDogStory: Ultimately, the author never writes his treatment or script during the story. He gets so annoyed with how executive after executive veto his work and make him do changes under protest, including changing the whole story to remove Charles Manson.
* ShownTheirWork: While there wasn't a June Lincoln in real life, there was a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/th June Storey who worked in silent film]] and was a remarkable actress. Storey also died in 1991, years before Sandman and Neverwhere would get greenlit.
* TechMarchesOn: The author buys a book of old magic tricks. He said some of them were impressive for the time period but television made them obsolete.
* TooManyCooks: When you have too many Hollywood executives who think they know best, you end up spending weeks working on a treatment that may never get read. The author grows increasingly annoyed as his ideas get tossed out and revived.
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An unnamed author has sold a bestselling novel about Charles Manson's children. He soon gets the chance to write the script for a film version. The problem is that Hollywood has no stars, and the executives don't know what kind of story they want. As the author struggles to write a treatment for his book, he talks with a local groundskeeper about legends of Hollywood and magic tricks and hears how Jim Belushi may have died.
!! Tropes for this include:
* AuthorAvatar: The author is meant to be a stand-in for Neil, who did work on several adaptations of his films.
* BittersweetEnding: The author never finishes the screenplay, and the groundskeeper dies on a random day. With that said, the author gains a better appreciation for the experience and leaves saddened but wiser for his home in England.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: One film executive says that they should remove the Charles Manson connection because it may be too controversial. The author snarkily replies his novel was ''all'' about Charles Manson and asks if she even read the book.
* DyingAlone: The groundskeeper answers this when the author asks him who was in the hotel room where Jim Belushi died. He says it doesn't matter which person was in the room since they didn't save Belushi.
* NoNameGiven: We never find out the author's name.
* RashomonStyle: Each person that the author meets has a different guess for which actor was in the hotel room where Belushi overdosed. Except for the one that confuses him with his brother John Belushi.
* ShaggyDogStory: Ultimately, the author never writes his treatment or script during the story. He gets so annoyed with how executive after executive veto his work and make him do changes under protest, including changing the whole story to remove Charles Manson.
* ShownTheirWork: While there wasn't a June Lincoln in real life, there was a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/th June Storey who worked in silent film]] and was a remarkable actress. Storey also died in 1991, years before Sandman and Neverwhere would get greenlit.
* TechMarchesOn: The author buys a book of old magic tricks. He said some of them were impressive for the time period but television made them obsolete.
* TooManyCooks: When you have too many Hollywood executives who think they know best, you end up spending weeks working on a treatment that may never get read. The author grows increasingly annoyed as his ideas get tossed out and revived.
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