John Blumenthal
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| Born | 1949 (age 67–68) Middletown, NY |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1984–present |
| Genre | Fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting |
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John Blumenthal (born 1949) is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for co-writing the screenplays for the films Short Time and Blue Streak.
Blumenthal was born in Middletown, New York. He attended Tufts University, graduating in 1971.
Blumenthal was hired as a fact-checker at Esquire magazine in the early 1970s, when he has 24. His first editorial job, he served under the editor Harold Hayes. In 1973, Nora Ephron, at the time an Esquire columnist, helped Blumenthal get a job at Playboy as an editor and writer. In addition to Esquire and Playboy, Blumenthal has also written for Salon.
Several of Blumenthal's books have been loosely based on his experiences in Hollywood, including the 1984 parody The Official Hollywood Handbook. Also in 1984, Blumenthal and his friend and fellow Playboy editor Barry Golson wrote a period-piece romance novella spoof called Love's Reckless Rash, published by St. Martin's Press under the pen name Rosemary Cartwheel. In 2013, the duo wrote Passing Wind of Love, a novel-length expansion of Love's Reckless Rash.
Blumenthal wrote a pair of detective novel spoofs published by Simon & Schuster in 1985, both featuring private detective Mac Slade and set in modern-day Manhattan: The Tinseltown Murders and The Case of the Hardboiled Dicks.
Blumenthal's 1988 nonfiction book Hollywood High is a history of the Los Angeles public high school founded in 1903 that was attended by numerous celebrities, including Lana Turner, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, John Ritter and Carol Burnett.
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