Pulp non fiction: Joe Eszterhas tells all about Mel Gibson

Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has given up chasing women. He?s given up booze. He?s given up smoking, after barely surviving a horrible bout of throat cancer. But judging from ?Heaven and Mel,? his new Amazon e-book about his ill-fated attempt to write a historical action drama about the Maccabees for Mel Gibson to direct, Eszterhas hasn?t lost his fondness for larger-than-life showbiz soap opera. Eszterhas was once the highest-paid screenwriter in Hollywood, a man who fought bitterly with directors, studios and actresses ? at least when he wasn?t sleeping with them. He lived across the street from Bob Dylan in Malibu,...

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