The Paul Lynde Story - Authorized Biography
Date 2009 | Written by: William Butler & Aaron Strongoni
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See the story synopsis below!
Synopsis: 1940 -- After a cold upbringing that leaves him satiating his lack of love with indulgent over-eating, twelve-year old, two-hundred pound Paul Lynde finds being the life of the party the only way to feel attractive to people. He soon develops a longing to be in the professional spotlight, along with a hilarious sense of comic timing…yet never really loses his sense of personal emptiness. After spending a portion of his teenage years bed-ridden with an internal infection, Lynde’s weight soars to three-hundred pounds as he enters college at North Western University in an attempt to become a serious, respected actor.
Mocked by his theater professor as a talentless, walking sight gag, Paul quickly grows in popularity as a hysterically funny outsider who graduates with honors and is named best actor of his senior year. He moves to New York after being discovered by a Broadway star who happens to be in the audience. Paul’s stage career takes off, but his private desire to medicate himself worsens as he loses all of his weight and switches his vice from food to alcohol. His friends beg him to appreciate all that fate has brought him and urge him to learn to love himself…to no avail.
In no time, his self-destructive, comic genius persona is loved by theatergoers -- yet feared by those closest to him as he privately degenerates into an aggressive alcoholic, privately struggling to deal with the newfound realization that he is a homosexual. In 1968, Paul relocates to Hollywood as his show business career and the television sitcom market skyrockets.
1970 -- Paul reluctantly finds himself the popular comic relief of most of the top rated shows on television. His management continually baits him with their false intent to get him into serious acting roles as long as he agrees to remain closeted about his private life…yet they never once deliver. Now loved by all of America, Paul eventually becomes the most popular comic actor in show business – and ironically, his drunken off-screen outbursts and personal attacks on those around him continue to escalate. One by one, Paul’s friends, loved ones, and co-workers slowly fade away. Finally, after one particularly violent evening that leaves Paul badly beaten and without anyone left in his life, he finally sees the light and decides to embrace himself for who he really is, and in doing so, makes a pledge to quit drinking -- and that’s just what he does. In the end, all of the amazing things in Paul’s life that he never could allow himself to fully appreciate, eventually come back. Tragically, he dies a year later, somehow squeezing an entire lifetime of lost happiness into the one year that he had left.
This authorized biography was written after countless interviews and personal research of the funny man the world loved, but never really knew. Comedy-Drama
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