Comfort and Joi uses one fan’s obsession with a blonde bombshell to explore our fascination  with the movies.  
 
Memory and movies collide when the narrator of Comfort and Joi, award-winning screenwriter  Joseph Dougherty’s imaginative blend of fiction and film fact, sets out to document the life and  work of bosomy blonde Joi Lansing, a minor glamour girl who appeared in such “classics” as  Hillbillys in a Haunted House and Queen of Outer Space. 
 
Alone in a borrowed house on the California coast during a winter weekend, he indulges his  infatuation with a pinup who rose from extra girl to working with Orson Welles, only to end her  career in grade-Z horror pictures. 
 
Offbeat movie history from the fringes of Hollywood triggers personal memories as he follows  this “beautiful beacon in a Sargasso of bad filmmaking” and finds an unexpected path to his own  past.
 
“Joseph Dougherty is a fantastically gifted writer. His observations are haunting, funny, and  completely original.”  
—Christopher Guest 
“A meditation on movie love structured as tautly as a good noir screenplay.” —Fearless Reviews 
“A book about Hollywood and Pop Culture like no other.” 
—The Fedora Chronicles 
“Dougherty is a humanist who argues that each of us has to look, listen, choose, and commit.  His work is as encouraging as it is enlightening.” 
— Douglas Heil, Prime-Time Authorship
 
ISBN: 9781959748342