'Ludes Author:Benjamin Stein Lenny and Linda Brown. They found the nightmare beyond the American dream. — Lenny Brown knew what he wanted. He wanted maitre d's in four-star restaurants to usher him to the best table in the house. He wanted a tobacco-brown Mercedes convertible, a black-bottomed pool, and a private jet for Saturday night trips to Vegas. He wanted his wife ... more »Linda to have her own ballet studio so she could practice whenever she god damned pleased.
Lenny wanted it all. So he and Linda went to L.A. where the money grows on trees. And for a crazy time all of Lenny's wildest dreams came true. Until the bottom dropped out. Only one thing could put him back on the stairway to heaven...« less