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Author : David M. Rosen
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780802131874
Provides information on how to make and distribute independent productions, and gives examples of different styles, budgets, and financial arrangements used
Author : Diane Negra
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Actresses
ISBN : 9780415216777
Off-White Hollywood investigates how the 'ethnicity' of white European-American actresses has played a key role in the mythology of American identity and nation building. Negra focuses on key stars of the silent - Colleen Moore and Pola Negri - classical - Sonja Henie and Hedy Lamarr - and post-classical eras - Marisa Tomei and Cher - to demonstrate how each star illuminates aspects of ethnicity, gender, consumerism, and class at work in American culture.
Author : Harris Katleman
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 35,10 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0795352247
A studio executive’s “superb memoir” of his years in the industry, filled with hilarious stories and hard-earned wisdom (Library Journal). From watching his colleague get shot in the testicles by a jealous producer to running Hollywood’s most successful TV studio, Harris Katleman had a front row seat in the development of the television industry. A classic account of the business side of entertainment, this book shares what really happened in the early careers of Hollywood stars and the development of iconic programs. Through a number of funny behind-the-scenes anecdotes, Katleman shares his journey from office boy to talent agent to television producer, and finally to studio head at both MGM and Twentieth Century Fox. Along the way, we meet industry giants including Rupert Murdoch, Bob Iger, Barry Diller, Marvin Davis, Kirk Kerkorian, Mark Goodson, and Lew Wasserman. This memoir goes beyond the story of a life in Hollywood. It is the story of crucial developments—how motion picture film libraries were opened for television licensing, how The Simpsons was birthed, and much more. “Not only does this book show his leadership in the television business, it shows how strongly he fought for groundbreaking shows that transformed the industry.”—David E. Kelley “A worthy entry in the lexicon of books chronicling Hollywood of yesteryear.”—Booklist
Author : Becky Aikman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,44 MB
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0698405633
A lively and revealing behind-the-scenes look at the making of one of history's most controversial and influential movies, drawing on exclusive interviews with the cast and crew. “You’ve always been crazy,” says Louise to Thelma, shortly after she locks a police officer in the trunk of his car. “This is just the first chance you’ve had to express yourself.” In 1991, Thelma & Louise, the story of two outlaw women on the run from their disenchanted lives, was a revelation. Suddenly, a film in which women were, in every sense, behind the wheel. It turned the tables on Hollywood, instantly becoming a classic, and continues to electrify audiences as a cultural statement of defiance. But if the film’s place in history now seems certain, at the time its creation was a long shot. Only through sheer hard work and more than a little good luck did the script end up in the hands of the brilliant English filmmaker Ridley Scott, who saw its huge potential. With Scott on board, a team willing to challenge the odds came together—including the stars Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon and a fresh-faced up-and-coming actor named Brad Pitt, as well as legends like actor Harvey Keitel, composer Hans Zimmer, and old-school studio chief Alan Ladd Jr.—to create one of the most controversial movies of all time. But before icons like Davis and Sarandon got involved, Thelma & Louise was just an idea in the head of Callie Khouri, a thirty-year-old music video production manager, who was fed up with working behind the scenes on sleazy sets. At four a.m. one night, sitting in her car outside the ramshackle bungalow in Santa Monica that she shared with two friends, she had a vision: two women on a crime spree, fleeing their dull and tedious lives—lives like hers—in search of a freedom they had never before been able to realize. But in the late 1980s, Hollywood was dominated by men, both on the screen and behind the scenes. The likelihood of a script by an unheard-of screenwriter starring two women in lead roles actually getting made was remote. But Khouri had one thing going for her—she was so inexperienced she didn't really know she would be attempting the nigh impossible. In Off the Cliff, Becky Aikman tells the full extraordinary story behind this feminist sensation, which crashed through barricades and upended convention. Drawing on 130 exclusive interviews with the key players from this remarkable cast of actors, writers, and filmmakers, Aikman tells an inspiring and important underdog story about creativity, the magic of cinema, and the unjust obstacles that women in Hollywood continue to face to this day.
Author : Carla Valderrama
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0762495855
In this one-of-a-kind Hollywood history, the creator of Instagram's celebrated @ThisWasHollywood reveals the forgotten past of the film world in a dazzling visual package modeled on the classic fan magazines of yesteryear. From former screen legends who have faded into obscurity to new revelations about the biggest movie stars, Valderrama unearths the most fascinating little-known tales from the birth of Hollywood through its Golden Age. The shocking fate of the world's first movie star. Clark Gable's secret love child. The film that nearly ended Paul Newman's career. A former child star who, at ninety-three, reveals her #metoo story for the first time. Valderrama unfolds these stories, and many more, in a volume that is by turns riveting, maddening, hilarious, and shocking. Drawing on new interviews, archival research, and an exhaustive library of photographs, This Was Hollywood is a compelling and visually stunning catalogue of the lost history of the movies.
Author : Diane Negra
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 15,92 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Actresses
ISBN : 9780415216777
Off-White Hollywood investigates how the 'ethnicity' of white European-American actresses has played a key role in the mythology of American identity and nation building. Negra focuses on key stars of the silent - Colleen Moore and Pola Negri - classical - Sonja Henie and Hedy Lamarr - and post-classical eras - Marisa Tomei and Cher - to demonstrate how each star illuminates aspects of ethnicity, gender, consumerism, and class at work in American culture.
Author : Antonio Mendez
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1101601205
The true, declassified account of CIA operative Tony Mendez's daring rescue of American hostages from Iran that inspired the critically-acclaimed film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, and co-starring John Goodman, Alan Arkin, and Bryan Cranston. On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there is a little-known drama connected to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a top-level CIA officer named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them before they were detected. Disguising himself as a Hollywood producer, and supported by a cast of expert forgers, deep cover CIA operatives, foreign agents, and Hollywood special effects artists, Mendez traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake science fiction film called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect film backdrops, Mendez and a colleague succeeded in contacting the escapees, and smuggling them out of Iran. Antonio Mendez finally details the extraordinarily complex and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago. A riveting story of secret identities and international intrigue, Argo is the gripping account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage.
Author : Douglas Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2004-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781418486587
The Glitter Ghetto. From Melrose to Hollywood Blvd. and from La Cienega to Western Ave., the Hollywood "Flats" are the remains of the L.A. basin before it climbs into the hills. It is the left-over residue of what was once the paramount of the film industry. And it is far from the star-studded mecca where young hopefuls once went to seek their fortune and fame. More like a Bohemian theater off-Broadway, Hollywood has become a strip mall of sight delights and pleasure services, a barrio of sexual adventurism. A place where the producers are pimps, the starlets are harlots, the studios are bordellos, and the casting call is solely for those whose lives have been devalued in MAKE-BELIEVE CITY. The story revolves around a man, Mickey Chazworth, who is the premier reporter for a small, financially strapped, bi-weekly newspaper on the way to becoming "tabloidized." He is called on to do a series of articles about the sex-for-sale trade in Hollywood. It is a desperation ploy by Chazworth's editor, the indefatigable Max Stowt, to inject reader interest by pandering copy about the oldest profession on Earth. The hope being to engender a larger circulation and create advertising sales to bail out the paper, even at the sacrifice of turning it into a tabloid. And to do this, the editor is willing to keep his ace reporter on assignment for several months. Now, Mickey Chazworth is a man who sees himself in the limelight of greater glory - a reporter with a mission to do quality work on stories of substance. And it is the perfect foil for the embarrassingly ribald situations that occur along the way to trashing the "high-brow" image he has of himself. Thus, the story attempts to contrast the seedy side of the Hollywood streets in opposition to the glitz of this fantasy world of movie stars, to-die-for fashion, and the high life.
Author : Harris Katleman
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1948122391
From watching his colleague get shot in the testicles by a jealous producer to running Hollywood’s most successful television studio, Harris Katleman had a front row seat in the development of the television industry. Destined to become a classic account of the business side of entertainment, this book shares what really happened in the early careers of Hollywood stars and the development of iconic programs. Through a number of hilarious accounts, Harris Katleman shares his journey from office boy to talent agent to television producer, and finally to studio head at both MGM and 20th Century Fox. Along the way, we meet industry giants including Rupert Murdoch, Bob Iger, Barry Diller, Marvin Davis, Kirk Kerkorian, Mark Goodson, and Lew Wasserman. This goes beyond the story of a life in Hollywood. It is the story of crucial developments—how motion picture film libraries were opened for television licensing, how The Simpsons was birthed, and much more. It is also a collection of vital life lessons for anyone aspiring to establish a career in Hollywood. The names are so famous and the stories so lively that this book reads like it was written about today’s Hollywood.
Author : Thomas Henderson
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 1988-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780671663261
In this harrowing, true account, Henderson lays bare the locker room legends, the wild partying, the rampant addiction and the unwritten rule of the pro sports world that anything goes--as long as you win the game. A tough, brutal, agonizing story . . .--Howard Cosell.P. Putnam.