I just need to get paid like a veteran, not less than some kid fresh out of some Ivy League school. I just think you need to be a millionaire to live in this city. I finally came into some money-I mean I got paid for a freelance article. I could watch TV from a certain angle, but I couldn’t read. HILLY: He was a shut-in except for his doctor appointments he was at home thinking it was highly contagious. SELMAN: Why has it been so long between appointments? In lieu of that, I was listening to certain songs over and over, two songs by the Hollies and one by Brian Eno, and that would sort of perk me up.ĭR. That probably would have been the best time to start taking it, but I didn’t. GEORGE: O.K., hold on a minute, hold on a minute. HILLY: I brought you lots of bad food, too.

SELMAN: I don’t think that’s a carbohydrate. I drank throughout my sickness, too-I couldn’t go to sleep. I gotta cut back on the carbs-that’s my big weakness. I’m up to 216 pounds, gained about fifteen pounds. I was sitting on the couch for three weeks.

and of a loveable (and loving) train wreck of a couple who refuse to call their relationship quits just because they've hit a few bumps.GEORGE: I started off with the codeines, then moved on to the Vikes. Wise-ass, confessional, always compelling, George & Hilly is a story of sex, love, money, and big-city life.

Selman-combined with innumerable mandated 'discussions' (read: more squabbling) on their own watch-force these two mismatched but undefeated soul mates to evolve into quasi semi-adults. Harold Selman, and George will tape-record the sessions. He and Hilly will participate in therapy with Dr.

Ever the writer, George conceives a bold plan. Fresh from what he and Hilly are terming The Big Fight-a tentative discussion of a future together-George is eager for insight on whether he's finally ready (after twenty years) to scale back his bar-hopping, party boy Manhattan life for the love of one fascinating woman. Perhaps it's finally time for a march down the aisle. But after more than three years of dating Hilly, he's equally sure that she is the only woman in the world for him. George has a great many qualms about marriage. Longtime New York nightlife reporter and humor columnist George Gurley at last tells the complete and outrageously humorous story of how he and his girlfriend, Hilly, attempted-with the occasionally bemused assistance of the couples psychiatrist they are seeing-to analyze a relationship poised on the brink of commitment.

George & Hilly by George Gurley