Author’s work draws on life after ‘Was-band’

By at 14 August, 2009, 4:55 pm

Screenwriter, novelist and ex-Hollywood wife of uber-producer Brian Grazer ,  Gigi Levangie Grazer  spills the nasty details of divorce in her new novel,   Queen Takes King . The latest work by the author of Los Angeles-based Rescue Me , Maneater and The Starter Wife , Queen Takes King is set in New York, “I moved my family to New York with my Was- band . I call him my Was- band because it’s nicer.”   Page2Live met Gigi at Books & Books, Miami Beach. Gigi develops her characters, “By drawing upon people I know, of course.” She’s interviewed The Donald , among others. Then adds, “I make composites, but if you make a man handsome and a woman thin

and beautiful, it doesn’t matter what you say.” In Queen Takes King , the husband is a real estate developer who leaves his wife of 25 years for a younger woman. But, after 25 years, he knows nothing about her! She believes, “I write about things, and they tend to happen.”  Once, on a plane Gigi sat next to a mogul who told her, “My (expletive) soon-to-be ex-wife is holding up the divorce, if I could only get someone to date her!”  So, Gigi thought, “Hey, wait a minute, that’s a story! Think George Clooney leaves Sandra Bullock for Reese Witherspoon .”  

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Author’s work draws on life after ‘Was-band’

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