Pat Silver-Lasky

Born in Seattle, Washington, Pat attended the University of Washington, Stanford University and Reed College where she produced and directed their first play. After 4&1/2 years college tramping she joined a Shakespearian Touring Company Her relationship with Hollywood goes back a long way before she was born. In 1913, her future father-in-law, Jesse L. Lasky, produced the first full-length motion picture The Squaw Man. Her late husband, Jesse L. Lasky, Jr. wrote 48 films, 8 for C.B. DeMille, including The Ten Commandments, and Samson And Delilah; both are in the Top 10 All-Time Box Office Hits. Pat began her career as a Hollywood actress and progressed to directing and writing. With Jesse, she wrote 4 books, 8 produced films, 119 TV scripts including HBO's Philip Marlowe series. Her solo book, SCREENWRITING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY was published in 2004 by Chrysalis in the UK. She and Jesse moved to London in1962. After his death in1988 she taught screenwriting for 9 years at the London Film School, until 2009. Pat married cartoonist/painter Peter Betts in 1998 They now live in Orange County, California. She knew Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Orson Welles, Tony Quinn and a host of stars personally. Her next book will be about her times with some of them.

THE VIDEOS:

1.HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY: A FAMILY IN FILMS

2. THE OFFER

THE PHOTOS:

Pat Silver-Lasky and Jesse Lasky, Jr. in their orchard in Spain, with Doug Fairbanks, Jr., Book Jackets: Love Scene, The Offer, Screenwriting for the 21st Century,, Crime and Passion. During the writing of this film Pat spent 4 weeks on a Swiss mountain top with Omar Sharif, Karen Black and the crew filming.As an actress, Barbara Hayden (photo Esquire Magazine).

Books by Pat Silver-Lasky

Screenwriting for the 21st Century

Ride The Tiger

Scams Schemes Scumbags

A Star Called Wormwood

(With Jesse L. Lasky, Jr.)

Men of Mystery

Love Scene (The biography of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh)

The Offer: 1st edition 1981, 2nd edition 1982

The Offer 4th edition 2013, with an updated timeline and added material.

RIDE THE TIGER, My erotic thriller. Fame, money and sex, that's what movie star Madelaine Brent wanted and she always got everything she wanted. But sometimes everything is too much and somebody can get murdered. Maddie remembered an ancient Chinese proverb:'She who rides the tiger better not dismount.' Was she about to fall off?

Critique:

"This is the deeply penetrating story of a film star who puts her career and her erotic desires above all else. Madelaine Brent is willing to undergo the tortuous beauty treatments that will keep her on top - a survivor in the film world, the Las Vegas showtime scene and a survivor in the art of love. But Maddie does not foresee the consequences her actions will have on the men in her life: her British film director husband Charles who is devoted to her, the one-night stand she thought she could dismiss, the French film star who fathered her child, the young writer-director she seduced and the actor who holds her spellbound. Her beautiful daughter Cathy, alienated from her mother, has taken a dangerous path that leads to prison. Maddie's path leads her to a place she didn't expect - and a trail of murders."

SCAMS SCHEMES SCUMBAGS by Pat Silver-Lasky and Peter Betts

These are true stories of men and women who offered their eager victims a shortcut to riches. For every conman there are always the suckers queuing up to buy into 'a sure thing'; easy targets who get trapped by their own greed. But it's always the audacious conman not the willing sap, who rides that gravy train to riches.

Since civilization first spilled a trickle of coins through man's fingers and placed a value on objects, there has always been some rapacious rogue eager to pack a pocket through swindles, tricks and cons. Don't look smug; you're not immune. Would you turn down a quick buck for something just a smidge outside the law - or refuse to purchase a new Plasma screen TV on the cheap because it fell off the back of a white van? Wouldn't you consider for just a minute, buying a box guaranteed to print money if you saw it with your own eyes? Or accept an acre of land in the centre of a town you'd never seen, if it was being given away free? Would you join a new 'in' religion because somebody famous was a follower? We may laugh at another person's foolishness, but wait just a minute! How susceptible are you? Wouldn't you like to know some of the tricks these conmen and conwomen pulled? (Not that you want to pull them yourselves, you understand, but just so you'll be on guard.)

Today, the label on your designer clothes or wristwatch can be as meaningless as the artist's signature on a painting. But are you taken in, or are you a party to the fraud? Do we sneak a little admiration for the wily rascal who's pulled off a 'good one' and got away with it? After all, nobody got hurt except in the pocket - or did they? It would seem that the art forger, once he's paid his price to society, earns a dubious respectability. Clifford Irving wrote a best seller revealing the truth about his faked Howard Hughes biography. Frank Abnagale, a man of many bogus identities, served his time and later made a fortune in the crime prevention business. He even had a film made about him. (Catch Me if you Can). Does crime pay? Turn these pages on a world of rogues, rapscallions, rascals, knaves, charlatans and shysters. Learn how even some of the worst scumbags got away with their scams and schemes. Or did they?

THE OFFER (4th EDITION)

THE OFFER was originally published in 1981 by Doubleday & Co., and in 1982 by Berkley/Jove paperback. This exciting new edition, published by OuroborusBooks.biz (November 2013 (ISBN 978-149275 9669), has been

revised and updated with a new cover. An added timeline brings history up to date. THE OFFER is extremely relevant today. In this sweeping saga we discover the evolution of Israel.

The first edition was placed in the White House Permanent Library by President Reagan, honored as BOOK OF THE MONTH by The Jewish Bulletin, praised by Moyshe Dyan and sent by diplomatic pouch to President Sadat by the Egyptian Ambassador in London. "The Offer is the 'Roots' of Israel." L. A. Reporter, Nov 25 1981

A STAR CALLED WORMWOOD

(available on Kindle, Feedaread and soon on Amazon)

a fast-paced comedy action adventure set in the international film world. It's romantic, violent, zany, upbeat and lowdown -What happens when Hollywood screenwriters confront a host of oddballs, a master fraudster and his dazzling partner in the rip-off of the age?

Fraudsters and dazzling dames meet innocents abroad.