"Once you've won a car on a game show," King writes, "been an actor, owned a phone sex company, been infected with HIV, slept with a movie icon and developed a drug addiction, you've pretty much done the Hollywood thing…"
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The "place" is Los Angeles in the 1980's, where King lived as an actor, sexual entrepreneur, and AIDS activist. He approaches his topic as both a period piece and a pitch black comedy of life, death, drugs and AIDS.
"Once you've won a car on a game show," King writes, "been an actor, owned a phone sex company, been infected with HIV, slept with a movie icon and developed a drug addiction, you've pretty much done the Hollywood thing…"
King approaches all of these incidents with disarming candor and a playfully twisted world view. The result is that nothing plays as one might imagine: phone sex becomes broad comedy, a fling with Rock Hudson is darkly tragic, and his plunge into drugs is casual and aloof. Only the eventual AIDS body count is fittingly heart wrenching, but King's sharp humor remains intact throughout.
King has always had a knack for bittersweet truth-telling, having been widely read in gay papers nationwide, on web sites such as TheBody.com and in columns in The Advocate and, most recently, Newsweek. He just won the National Lesbian and Gay Journalism Association's 2007 award for Best Written Opinion Piece of the year for his essay "Once, When We Were Heroes," about the early days of the AIDS crisis.
For more information on the writer or to read the prologue of "A Place Like This," visit www.marksking.com. The book is available now through Amazon.com and other online retailers.
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