My Lucky Star
(Joe Keenan)
My Lucky Star
By Joe Keenan
Published by William Heinemann
Review printed in Courier Mail
FROM the writer and producer of Frasier comes another stylish farce. My Lucky Star is the third instalment to Blue Heaven (1988) and Putting on the Ritz (1991).
The central character, Philip Cavanaugh, with his sharp friend Claire Simmons, are conned into catching a plane to Hollywood. As always it is Gilbert Selwyn, Philip's very dodgy ex-lover who is to blame. Somehow Gilbert has landed a dream screenwriting contract. From the goodness of his heart he decides to share the spoils with his two friends. At least that is how it sounded pre-flight.
On location in Tinsel Town, it is obvious no amount of glitter can hide the cracks in Gilbert's slapdash deal. Things rapidly fall apart. The try-hard screenwriters are exposed as dirty plagiarists. Philip then begins writing the memoirs of a washed-up Hollywood diva.
From there things simply spiral into a brilliant madness. With a psychotic lawyer, blackmail, a crazed publicist, call boys, a fake copper and the return of an old arch-nemesis, the road to glory was never so twisted. And this is without mentioning the one hell of a deviant sex act caught on video. It is a lucky thing the boys have Claire.
Despite great characters, rapier wit, masterful plot twists and elegant prose, Keenan's work is an easy read. This makes it a nice contrast to the top-heavy humour Frasier was sometimes guilty of. Sophisticated and fun with a wonderful gay exuberance.
-Dan Eady.
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