Have A Heart

About the Book

ABOUT ‘HAVE A HEART’, THE BOOK

Lovely Liz Krantz is an art therapist who conducts workshops at a maximum security prison. One of her ‘artists’ is Medwick a convicted killer who has a task for Liz that she can’t refuse. He wants her to find a worthy recipient who needs a heart transplant and who could use Medwick’s heart after he has been executed. This assignment leads Liz on a cross country quest, interviewing various bizarre candidates for Medwick’s heart. It also brings her into contact with Cliff Melton, a young documentarian who interests a TV network in Liz’s mission. The rating crazed executives and their sycophants at the network decide to put on the ultimate Reality Show called, “Live or Die.” On the show, contestants vie for Medwick’s heart and in a spasm of truly bad taste, the viewing audience votes as to who will live and who will die. Never to be underestimated, the American public’s fascination with death is to be exploited. The show will be a modern equivalent of Roman Coliseum dust ups. At first, Liz is intimidated by the network’s mad scramble for rating numbers until she asserts herself in a wholly unexpected way.

About the Author

ABOUT STANLEY HART, THE AUTHOR

A two time Emmy Award winner for his work as a writer and as the head writer for The Carol Burnett Show, Stanley Hart has been active in television, screen and theater for more years than he cares to remember. His screen credits include “Move” a unmemorable movie that the star, Elliot Gould would also like to forget. He has had numerous screenplays that were sold and never made into films. Hart’s theater pieces fared much better. A long time ago, Hart co-wrote a revue, “The Mad Show” that played for twenty two months off Broadway- a record run for a revue at that time. This gave him the chutzpah to write a play, “Some of My Best Friends” that was produced on Broadway, directed by Harold Prince. Many regional theaters have produced Hart’s plays and he is still waiting for their royalties. In TV, aside from his work on The Carol Burnett Show, he wrote specials for Hal Linden, Paul Lynde, Carol Burnett with Julie Andrews, Bonnie Franklin and Hanna-Barbara (don’t ask).

Hart contributed to the insanity of Mad Magazine for thirty odd years and somehow avoided being committed. His five Mad books include, “A Mad Look at Parents, Teacher and Other Enemies,” and “The Mad Survival Book.” He also moonlighted and wrote a book giving the skinny on top baseball players when they were first considered by Major League scouts, fittingly named, “Scouting Reports” that McMillan published. There are still some copies left.

Stanley Hart is a natty dresser for a writer and a gracious host and he would like you to drop over for a drink. “Have a Heart” is his first novel to be published. When he rings your bell as he goes door-to-door selling copies, be kind.