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MONKEY BUSINESS is writer-producer Carleton Eastlake’s debut novel about a conflicted TV writer on location in Florida who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman at a nightclub when she upends everything he thought he understood about life, limerence, bonded love, power, creativity, paintball combat, and what psychologists and philosophers ...
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Television And Film. For a look at some of my work as a film...
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Former politico, attorney, and screenwriter Carleton...
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Monkey Business, Carleton Eastlake, Writer, producer, tv...
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My Story... I was born in New York City in 1947 during a...
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Carleton Eastlake has written a raw, jarring, darkly-funny...
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CARLETON EASTLAKE began his career in creative writing while...
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My Story... I was born in New York City in 1947 during a famous blizzard. My mother, Marion Nelson, wrangled Arturo Toscanini for NBC Radio. My father, Alfred Chesmore Eastlake, was a medical researcher and physician at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital.
- Murder, She Wrote - “Jessica Behind Bars”
- The Equalizer - “Prelude”
- Seaquest - “Second Chance”
- The Outer Limits - “Relativity Theory”
- Farscape - “Infinite Possibilities” and “We’re So Screwed”
This became my second produced episode. Since Angela Lansbury was one of the very few sole female leads in that era, the thought came to me, why not do an all-woman episode? So I pitched the idea that while teaching creative writing in a women’s prison, Jessica is taken hostage by prisoners demanding she prove the innocence of an inmate accused of ...
For the start of the second season, the network wanted to tell the Equalizer’s origin story to explain why an ex-CIA agent was so very rich and yet so grimly risking his life to protect the innocent who had nowhere else to turn. Since this was 1986 and the murderous, American-backed Augusto Pinochet was in power, I had a Chilean death squad come to...
Although my novel realistically reflects the utter madness that one way or another takes place behind the camera on many, many TV series, it isn’t journalistic or truly autobiographical (although, oddly, the story of a broken tooth comes close as does the character’s idea for a synesthetic crime-fighter; it’s a show I developed for a production com...
In this 1998 episode, rather like 2009’s Avatar, heavily armed mercenaries from Earth pursued a campaign of genocide against a primitive race on a resource-rich planet. I won’t give away the punch-line, but people often ask where I get my ideas - this one came from a newspaper account of what happened when a band of Eastern European mercenaries tri...
This was the craziest, most imaginative series I ever worked on. There wasn’t as much immediate social-science fiction relevance as some of the other shows I’ve done, but nowhere else on television ever gave me the assignment as a visiting consultant to first kill the series’ male lead one season and two seasons later to kill the female lead. It wa...
May 3, 2022 · Former politico, attorney, and screenwriter Carleton Eastlake's first novel Monkey Business takes the reader on a wild ride in an attempt to answer these questions and more.
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CARLETON EASTLAKE graduated from UCLA in political science and psychology and from Harvard Law School with a concentration in law and the social sciences. After a career in public policy and consumer protection law, being hired on Steven Spielberg’s series seaQuest confirmed him as a television writer-producer as well.
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Jul 1, 2022 · Carleton Eastlake. When William Fox, a TV writer on location in Florida, is dragged by his show’s toxic producers to a “gentleman's club” that’s just appeared outside town, he meets Nicole, a mysterious dancer who claims to be an anthropologist searching for signs of rational life on Earth.
May 3, 2022 · In Carleton Eastlake's provocative and sharply written Monkey Business (Red Hen Press), William Fox is caught somewhere in between that civil war * * * Eastlake is a master of psychology and personality study, bringing readers deep inside Fox, an intelligent man with flaws, driving to come to terms with his own emotions and actions.
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