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The Candy Butcher is an old fashioned term for the guy with a basket full of candy, fruits, magazines, and newspapers he sells walking through your train to make your journey more enjoyable. Frank Ray Perilli's first job was as a Candy Butcher, and his show biz career began in his teens as a nightclub comedian and film actor, and continued through Hollywood as a screenwriter and film producer. Almost all of his offbeat Felliniesque films cross the threshold of bizarre and are richly flavored with comedy: The Doberman Gang, Little Cigars, The Other Cinderella, Adult Fairy Tales, Dracula's Dog, The End of the World, Laserblast, Alligator, Invasion of the Star Creatures, but to name a few. Even his more serious films, such as Harlow, and his plays, such as Stompin' at he Oval Office, touch upon aspects of history uncharted by others. With a weird offbeat perspective, Frank Ray Perilli enriches our journey through life with the sweetness of comedy and the challenge of thinking outside the box.

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William Karl Thomas was born 1/25/33 in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, a small Gulf Coast town in which Tennessee Williams lived and wrote about in his works. In 1951 Thomas married his former high school teacher and was divorced after a four year childless marriage. His checkered background includes being a cocktail pianist in New Orleans French Quarter, serving a year of combat in the Air Force during the Korean War, being a photographer, a journalist, a feature/documentary cinematographer, a screen writer, an industrial film producer, a public relations executive, and a book author. He has worked for and with such notables as Frank Sinatra, the Rat Pack, Lenny Bruce, and others.. In the course of various assignments, Thomas has lived or worked in Oxford England, Paris France, Japan, Korea, Jamaica, Mexico, Canada, and various parts of the United States. The Manchester Guardian has stated, He superbly evokes the seedy atmosphere of the cheap Hollywood clubs and coffeehouses, and His work sometimes reads like a Bogart script. Kirkus refers to, His historically astute depiction of the country and era and (He) aptly conveys the heights and depths of human capability, and refers to The Josan and the Jee as An emotionally challenging but rewarding war novel. Readers reviews say One of the best books I have ever read; maybe the best, and This story will make you sad and happy at the same time. It is difficult to put the book down.

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