What do a nervous-stomached corporate video director, a childlike business savant CEO, a brainless ad agency, a lovely video editor given to wanton double entendre, Joan of Arc, Stanley Kubrick and Montana Big Sky mysticism all have in common? EXECUTIVE BREAKFAST!

Comic, absurd, suspenseful, and in the end poignant, EXECUTIVE BREAKFAST is a Spinal Tap meets How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying take on the skullduggery of Fortune 500 board room politics and NYC ad agency shenanigans, with an informed look into the often tense, always chaotic behind-the-scenes workings of a corporate television studio.
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In the pre-Internet '90s, corporate low echelon Lee Chase is searching for purpose in his job as an on-staff TV director for a huge Fortune 500 consumer products company in the midwest.

His fortunes take a riotous twist when the paternal and well-loved CEO is suddenly replaced by a larger-than-life, idiosyncratic, business-savant Dutchman whose grasp of English is as tenuous as his media savvy.

Lee shepherds the homesick and somewhat childlike Mr. Van der Berg through his first-day-on-the-job TV appearances, successfully navigating minefields of employee hostility and Wall Street resistance; in the process they become improbable friends.

Under the gun, with his department facing an imminent outsourcing, Lee's final assignment is to write and direct a test commercial for a new-to-the-market product; 'Heavenly Hearth' stick-on wallpaper. His musically driven approach is creative and risky, but it works, and focus group numbers rocket off the charts.

Mr. Van der Berg sees the spot, loves it, and Lee is suddenly vaulted into the executive suites, as head of Marketing.

With a lifetime of wealth, comfort, and prestige in his grasp, Lee must choose between a skyscraper vocation-- or a Big Sky avocation in Montana where the love of his life lies waiting.

Ch. 1 The Terminator
Ch. 2 Jolene's Ideas
Ch. 3 Pierre's Mise-en-scene
Ch. 4. The Crying Dutchman
Ch. 5. Calamity Jane
Ch. 6. Joan of Arc
Ch. 7. Dog Park Dori
Ch. 8. The Godfather
Ch. 9. Interpretive Dance
Ch. 10. To a Wild Rose
Ch. 11. The Great Beyond

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• Publication Date: October 10, 2022
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