Comfort and Joi uses one fan's obsession with a blonde bombshell to explore our fascination with the movies. Memory and movies collide when the narrator of Comfort and Joi, award-winning screenwriter Joseph Dougherty's imaginative blend of fiction and film fact, sets out to document the life and work of bosomy blonde Joi Lansing, a minor glamour girl who appeared in such "classics" as Hillbillys in a Haunted House and Queen of Outer Space. Alone in a borrowed house on the California coast during a winter weekend, he indulges his infatuation with a pinup who rose from extra girl to working with Orson Welles, only to end her career in grade-Z horror pictures. Offbeat movie history from the fringes of Hollywood triggers personal memories as he follows this "beautiful beacon in a Sargasso of bad filmmaking" and finds an unexpected path to his own past. "Joseph Dougherty is a fantastically gifted writer. His observations are haunting, funny, and completely original." -Christopher Guest "A meditation on movie love structured as tautly as a good noir screenplay." -Fearless Reviews "A book about Hollywood and Pop Culture like no other.

" -The Fedora Chronicles "Dougherty is a humanist who argues that each of us has to look, listen, choose, and commit. His work is as encouraging as it is enlightening." - Douglas Heil, Prime-Time Authorship.