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* NobleBigotWithABadge: Detective O'Connor is an honest man who shows a certain amount of patience and compassion as he builds up to arresting Jack. When he learns that Jack slept with another man, he reacts with "repugnance", although this doesn't affect the rest of their interactions.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Jack isn't a first-person narrator, but while describing his life, he skips over certain compromising events and imagines what happened in "scenes" he wasn't present for.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Jack isn't a first-person narrator, but while describing his life, he skips over certain compromising events and imagines what happened in "scenes" he wasn't present for.for.
* YoureNotMyType: A variant of this is done when Jack gets involved in a paternity suit when he is, in fact, innocent of impregnating (or even sleeping with) the woman. He wins the case by having his second wife and several past lovers in the courtroom stand up and then gesturing for the jury to look between them and the (relatively unattractive) plaintiff while emphasizing the disparity in their level of poise and sophistication. The jury rules in Jack's favor, but his wife (who he genuinely loves) divorces him, partially for this display of sexism.
* YoureNotMyType: A variant of this is done when Jack gets involved in a paternity suit when he is, in fact, innocent of impregnating (or even sleeping with) the woman. He wins the case by having his second wife and several past lovers in the courtroom stand up and then gesturing for the jury to look between them and the (relatively unattractive) plaintiff while emphasizing the disparity in their level of poise and sophistication. The jury rules in Jack's favor, but his wife (who he genuinely loves) divorces him, partially for this display of sexism.
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A 1990 ''Creator/DonaldWestlake'' comedy-thriller about Jack Pine, a famous actor who recounts the story of his life during a police interrogation.
!! Tropes:
* CastingCouch: Jack slept with a male producer to get a role in a play after he was blackballed when his previous (female) patron died [[OutWithABang while having sex with him.]]
* DisposingOfABody: [[spoiler: Jack puts Buddy's body in his car and tries to push it into the ocean. Unfortunately for Jack, he's so wasted that instead he disposes of the body and the car in his own swimming pool, and the murder is quickly discovered.]]
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: After Jack describes his CastingCouch incident:
--> '''Detective O'Connor:''' You had sex with George Castelberry!
--> '''Jack:''' Mostly, George had sex with me.
* HowWeGotHere: Jack recounts his life story while being questioned by Detective O’Connor (who he drunkenly mistakes for a reporter) about [[spoiler: Buddy’s death.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: Jack [[spoiler: beats Buddy to death with his Oscar statue. When he sobers up enough to remember, he's horrified, not because he killed Buddy, but because he broke the Oscar.]]
* TheJeeves: Jack employs an unflappable British manservant and scrounger named Hoskins. Jack keeps trying to get him to play the part even more thoroughly, ordering him to say, "You bellowed, sir?" whenever Jack yells for him.
* MeaningfulName: Jack's best friend's real name is Buddy Pal. However, he's also a FalseFriend; sleeping with one of Jack's wives, [[spoiler: blackmailing Jack over the accidental death of a high school classmate]], and [[spoiler: getting HollywoodPlasticSurgery to steal Jack's life.]]
* PutOnAPrisonBus: The book ends with [[spoiler: Jack telling Hoskins that he'll be back in approximately twelve years after he's arrested for drunkenly killing Buddy.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: Jack isn't a first-person narrator, but while describing his life, he skips over certain compromising events and imagines what happened in "scenes" he wasn't present for.
!! Tropes:
* CastingCouch: Jack slept with a male producer to get a role in a play after he was blackballed when his previous (female) patron died [[OutWithABang while having sex with him.]]
* DisposingOfABody: [[spoiler: Jack puts Buddy's body in his car and tries to push it into the ocean. Unfortunately for Jack, he's so wasted that instead he disposes of the body and the car in his own swimming pool, and the murder is quickly discovered.]]
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: After Jack describes his CastingCouch incident:
--> '''Detective O'Connor:''' You had sex with George Castelberry!
--> '''Jack:''' Mostly, George had sex with me.
* HowWeGotHere: Jack recounts his life story while being questioned by Detective O’Connor (who he drunkenly mistakes for a reporter) about [[spoiler: Buddy’s death.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: Jack [[spoiler: beats Buddy to death with his Oscar statue. When he sobers up enough to remember, he's horrified, not because he killed Buddy, but because he broke the Oscar.]]
* TheJeeves: Jack employs an unflappable British manservant and scrounger named Hoskins. Jack keeps trying to get him to play the part even more thoroughly, ordering him to say, "You bellowed, sir?" whenever Jack yells for him.
* MeaningfulName: Jack's best friend's real name is Buddy Pal. However, he's also a FalseFriend; sleeping with one of Jack's wives, [[spoiler: blackmailing Jack over the accidental death of a high school classmate]], and [[spoiler: getting HollywoodPlasticSurgery to steal Jack's life.]]
* PutOnAPrisonBus: The book ends with [[spoiler: Jack telling Hoskins that he'll be back in approximately twelve years after he's arrested for drunkenly killing Buddy.]]
* UnreliableNarrator: Jack isn't a first-person narrator, but while describing his life, he skips over certain compromising events and imagines what happened in "scenes" he wasn't present for.
