Author: LINSON, ART
Title: What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Frontline by.
Description: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, UK, 2002. First Edition, Softcover. New. 9780747560197 192 pages. Available Now. Book Description: Forget everything you've heard about Hollywood. What Just Happened: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line is the real deal. In Art Linson's true and uproarious tale of what it is to make movies, we get to explore, at close range, finicky directors, clueless executives, shameless marketers, famous actors, battered screenwriters, and hapless producers crossing paths in such calamitous ways that it's a miracle these films get made at all. Whether he's trying to persuade an executive that Gwyneth Paltrow has enough chin to carry the lead in a movie, forcing an enraged Alec Baldwin to shave off his mountain-man beard, discussing ankle hair loss with Dustin Hoffman, or sitting through an excruciating reading of a David Mamet script as Robert DeNiro toys with the notion of heading up the cast, Linson gives us a brutally honest, funny, and comprehensive tour through the horrors of Hollywood, from script to screen. If you love the movies or not, you won't be able to resist the stories behind them. You also won't be able to resist Linson, a born story-teller whose wicked sense of humor leaves nobody safe - not even himself. : Review: ' A must-read for anyone involved in - or considering getting involved in - moviemaking' -- Vanity Fair: '...every bit as caustic, funny and humble as the title suggests.' -- Empire: 'Linson sings of Hollywood in a low gutteral animal wail, alternately hysterical, biting, humiliating, and wise' -- Sean Penn: 'Linson's candid confessional is the bastard offspring of William Goldman and Joe Queenan' -- Uncut: 'Wickedly funny ... it's the best users' manual to Hollywood I know.' -- Peter Biskind : About the Author: ART LINSON was born in Chicago and grew up in Hollywood. He has been producing movies for twenty-four years, and his credits include The Untouchables, Heat, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Scrooged, Fight Club, and Heist. In 1995, he published his first book, A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Hollywood Size: 23.1 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm. 192 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Miscellaneous; Paperback; ISBN: 0747560196. ISBN/EAN: 9780747560197. Inventory No: F202-1058.

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