Chasing America
Subtitle: notes of a rock 'n soul integrationist
By: Dennis Watlington.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780312271893
Subjects: Watlington, Dennis, 1952-; Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography.; Television writers -- United States -- Biography.; African American screenwriters -- Biography.; Racism -- United States.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Chasing America is a roller-coaster ride through promise and poverty, affirmative action and addiction, and a story that captures a life and an era that is seminally American." "Born in Harlem in 1952, Dennis Watlington developed a heroin habit at the age of thirteen, kicked it, and received a scholarship to the Hotchkiss School, where he was elected president of his class. He went on to NYU, became involved in film and theater (he had a small role in The Deerhunter and helped give Bruce Willis his start in a play called Bullpen), got addicted to crack, kicked that, and became an Emmy Award-winning television writer." "Chasing American shows us the best and worst America offers to a black man - from the Jim Crow South to boarding-school life in New England to backstage at the Fillmore East to a holding cell in Bellevue Hospital."--BOOK JACKET.