“The Player” is a novel about the life of the “dream factory”, written by a prominent Hollywood screenwriter and director Michael Tolkien, who knows the “film” customs firsthand. The main character of “The Player”, a producer at a major Hollywood studio, begins to receive threats from an anonymous screenwriter, whose application he shelved. The problem is that he cannot remember which of the many applications he is talking about, and attempts to find out turn into a bloody tragicomedy... “The Gambler” was filmed by the famous Robert Altman, the roles were played by movie stars Tim Robbins and Whoopi Goldberg; the film won the Golden Bough at Cannes and the Golden Globe Award.