Actor is a romantic comedy.
Henry Bonaparte was once a successful Hollywood actor. Now he's in rehab. He's nearly forty and he's got no money, no friends and hardly any hope left. He's been on booze and drugs and now he's trying to get off them. Once upon a time packed audiences laughed at his antics but now he's the only one sitting in the seats, spectacle to his own demise, trying to grasp what happened. It took so long to climb the ladder of success and such a short time to slide all the way down.
It's also the story of Hazel. She married young because she had been swept off her feet by Louis Ferrer, an Israel fighter pilot ten years her senior, and when his plane explodes in mid air she is convinced she did it because she had wished it. So, on the one hand she's happy that her unfaithful skirt chasing husband got his due. But on the other hand there is the guilt that keeps nagging at her. Had her strange mystical powers caused the plane explosion or was it a technical fault?
This is the second in The Bedouin series, so, of course, both Henry and Hazel will step into his goat hair tent and hear his absurd counsel, the absurd that transmutes into reality, like the world we live in.
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