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Authors: Dan Gutman

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AFTERWARDâ¦

Well, you can probably guess what happened with everybody afterward.

Mom: Fell in love with Roland.

Roland: Fell in love with Mom. He also decided to quit making action movies. He said being in love with Mom gave him all the endorphins he needed.

So Roland started making art films. He's currently working on
My Dinner With Andre, Part II
. It's about two guys who sit around a table talking for two hours. Mom says Roland is a genius.

Ricky Corvette: He's getting better slowly, and it looks like he's going to make a full recovery. Ricky's movie-star days are over, but when I talked to him about that, I got the feeling that he was almost glad. He's anxious to start his life over as a normal person.

Gladys Shmutz: She gave up movies entirely. She's not sure what she's going to do with her life yet. In the meantime, she has enrolled in public high school and says she wants to go to college. All the newspapers say we're going steady.

Mrs. Shmutz and Ricky's mom: Who cares? Ricky and Gladys moved out of their houses and stopped speaking to their parents.

Boris Bonner: I wouldn't know. Every time he sees me, he crosses the street or ducks into a classroom.

Me: I've been living the tough life of a movie star. You know, hanging out with Gladys. Shooting a movie or making a personal appearance every once in a while. Counting the money I rake in from the Johnny Hangtime action figures, trading cards, lunch boxes, and
backpacks. Buying lots of stuff I don't need.

Dad: I'm not sure. I still have the card he gave me on the observation deck at Niagara Falls. I've been thinking about him just about every day lately. I think I might give him a call.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to Loren James, cofounder of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures and Television

About the Author

DAN GUTMAN
is the author of many fantastic books for young readers, including the popular My Weird School series and award-winning Baseball Card Adventures. He has also written about soccer, basketball, bowling, and aliens. Thanks to his many fans who voted in their classrooms, he has received fifteen state book awards and thirty-seven state book award nominations. Dan lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey, with his wife, Nina, and their two children, Sam and Emma. You can visit him online at www.dangutman.com.

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Credits

Cover design by Sasha Illingworth

Copyright

JOHNNY HANGTIME
. Copyright Â© 2000 by Dan Gutman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Â© Edition DECEMBER 2008 ISBN: 9780061973277

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