Fiction Empire

Film 2000. Written by Steve Kloves. Directed by Curtis Hanson. Starring Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes, Robert Downey Jr and Rip Torn.

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The Arsonist's Daughter

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Literature

Books-Fiction

The Arsonist's Daughter
Critically successful novel by college professor Grady Tripp that had put him and his editor on the map.

Bartizan
Publishing company where Terry Crabtree works.

Double Dickel on the Rocks

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Mixed Drinks

Double Dickel on the Rocks
Grady's drink - Oola never forgets a drink.

Easy Come, Easy Go
Novel by the prolific author Quentin "Q" Morewood.

Kravnik's Discount
Vernon Hardapple's business.

The Last American Marriage

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Literature

Books-Biography

The Last American Marriage
Tentative title of Sara's husband Walter Gaskell's book - a critical exploration of the union of Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, and its function in American mythopoetics.

The Loneliest Prawn
Title of university student Susan Lowery's children's book, which she found a publisher for during Word Fest.

The Love Parade
James Leer's novel.

Seitz Plastics
Mannequin factory that James makes up, supposedly where his parents met in Carvel, Pennsylvania.

Think Number
Novel by the prolific author Quentin "Q" Morewood.

FICTITIOUS TIMELINE

February 25, 1999
Date on James Leer's receipt that Grady Tripp finds.

February 26, 1999
Friday. Opening night of Word Fest, the university's annual three-day "gabathon" for writers and wanna-bees. Professor Grady Tripp picks up his editor and his editor's new transvestite friend at the airport. At Walter Gaskell's party, Gaskell's wife Sara, with whom Grady has been having an affair, tells Grady that she's pregnant. Grady's creative writing student James Leer steals Marilyn Monroe's jacket from Walter's bedroom, then shoots Walter's dog when he attacks Grady.

February 27, 1999
Saturday. Second night of Word Fest, the university's annual three-day "gabathon" for writers and wanna-bees. Aftter the police come looking for James Leer and Grady discusses Sara's pregnancy with her in her greenhouse, Grady takes James to dinner, calling his grandparents to come pick him up. Later, he and his editor Terry Crabtree drive to James' grandparents' house and break him out, leaving Walter's dead dog Poe in James' bed.

February 28, 1999
Sunday. Third night of Word Fest, the university's annual three-day "gabathon" for writers and wanna-bees. Sara visits Grady, who discovers his car is missing. He and Terry track his car down to the man they call Vernon Hardapple's business, Kravnik's Discount. Grady takes his unfinished manuscript with him, which blows away in the wind when Terry accidentally drives into a wall. Later, Walter announces Terry Crabtree's intention to publish James Leer's novel The Love Parade.

March 1, 1999
Date that Walter Gaskell mentions when Grady calls him late at night to tell him that he's in love with his wife Sara: Are you drinking. Professor Tripp? Right now... Nevertheless, I'd like to see you in my office Monday morning.

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Baxter Drive
Address of James Leer's grandparents' house.

Carvel
Small town in Pennsylvania that James makes up, where his parents are supposedly from. A hellhole. Three motels and a mannequin factory.

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