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| Anthony Mora |
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Anthony Mora, who has been featured in The New York Times, The Los
Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, E! Entertainment!, MSNBC, CNN, and
other media, began his career as a freelance journalist, writing for
such publications as US, Playboy Publications, Buzz and Rolling Stone. He
left freelancing to serve as the editor-in-chief of Impresion magazine,
an English-language, Hispanic-oriented publication. The magazine, which
featured such authors as Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Marcia
Marquez and Carlos Casteneda, focused on the arts, literature and
entertainment. In 1986, Anthony co-founded Phillips & Mora
Entertainment, a public relations/personal management firm which
represented actors, writers, directors and films. Eventually the
company entered the production arena, producing several instructional
videos as well as feature films. In 1990, Anthony founded Anthony Mora
Communications, Inc. Anthony's novel, "BANG! A Love Story" was
published, in hardback, in 1998. He adapted "BANG! A Love Story" as a
play and as a screenplay. In 1999, BANG!, featuring Linda Cardellini in
the lead role of Janie, was performed at the Acme Theater in Los
Angeles and The American Place Theater in New York. BANG! was performed
in August of 2004, at the Third Street Theatre in Los Angeles. Anthony
recently finished a new play, "Modern Love" and is currently working on
"The Resurrection of Light", a collaborative work in metal leaf, words,
and watercolor, with artist Rachel Tribble.
Anthony Mora Titles
Bang! A Love Story
By Anthony Mora
Paper back
Pub. Date: 09/2005
ISBN: 0-9763398-4-6
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BANG! A Love Story, which won In! Magazine's best new fiction award, was awarded the 2002 IRWIN Award for fiction.
"BANG! is colorful and engaging. One of those novels so easy to pick up and so difficult to put down."
- Reviewer's Bookwatch Sex will never be quite the same. Provocative and disturbing, as well as funny and tender, Bang! sails into uncharted waters.
- Preview's Quarterly Review Janie's got a gun - an unlicensed, shiny, silver security blanket.
Not
quite eighteen and searching for a sense of order and security in her
life, Janie is just days away from entering the Flowers of God. A
uniquely Southern Californian cult, Flowers is the brainchild of Eden,
the vilified former host of the wildly successful TV talk show, Trash
Talk. Eden discovered God while serving jail time for statutory rape,
where he miraculously transformed from lascivious con man to celestial
sage.
Sharon, Janie's mother, is a steely narcissist who has
hired a ruthless team of deprogrammers to do whatever it takes to bring
Janie home. Everything changes when John, a forty-year-old magazine
editor and aspiring screenwriter, makes a split-second decision to save
Janie, sending them on a cross country, life changing journey. BANG! is
a fast-paced dark comedy that confronts complex issues of sex, faith,
morality and love.
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