Feed the Monkeys Peanuts

Feed The Monkeys Peanuts, by Kevin Francis Cleary, is first and foremost a love story. It tells the story of three very dissimilar people whose lives are brought together during the making of an action-adventure film in Hollywood, and on location in New Orleans and the Australian Outback: Joe Gold, an ambitious, ruthless American, down on his luck, who wheels and deals himself into producing the biggest blockbuster of the year; Sheila Goodman, a sensitive and intelligent young American woman, who falls out of a hopeless relationship with a married man into an exciting job as Joe’s secretary/assistant; and Ron Bondy, a charming, easygoing Australian sound man with whom Sheila falls in love on location in spite of herself. The book is both an insider’s look into how big-budgeted movies are really made, and an intimate love story about two dynamic and vulnerable people from two divergent cultures who learn how to love one another. The lives and ambitions of these people are intertwined in a dramatic and fast-paced narrative that moves like an action-adventure film, full of romance and unexpected humor.