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Author: Gore Vidal Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0375708758 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 451
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"Wicked and provocative...Vidal's purview of Hollywood in one of its golden ages is fascinating." —Chicago Tribune In his brilliant and dazzling new novel, Gore Vidal sweeps us into one of the most fascinating periods of American political and social change. The time is 1917. In Washington, President Wilson is about to lead the United States into the Great War. In California, a new industry is born that will transform America: moving pictures. Here is history as only Gore Vidal can re-create it: brimming with intrigue and scandal, peopled by the greats of the silver screen and American politics, from Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the author's own grandfather, the blind Senator Gore. With Hollywood, Vidal once again proves himself a superb storyteller and a perceptive chronicler of human nature's endless deceptions.
Author: Gore Vidal Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0375708758 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 451
Book Description
"Wicked and provocative...Vidal's purview of Hollywood in one of its golden ages is fascinating." —Chicago Tribune In his brilliant and dazzling new novel, Gore Vidal sweeps us into one of the most fascinating periods of American political and social change. The time is 1917. In Washington, President Wilson is about to lead the United States into the Great War. In California, a new industry is born that will transform America: moving pictures. Here is history as only Gore Vidal can re-create it: brimming with intrigue and scandal, peopled by the greats of the silver screen and American politics, from Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the author's own grandfather, the blind Senator Gore. With Hollywood, Vidal once again proves himself a superb storyteller and a perceptive chronicler of human nature's endless deceptions.
Author: Clayton Moore Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595753914 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Do you believe in heaven? People say every person's heaven is different depending on what they wanted in life." "Well, somehow I doubt God has prepared for me the world's largest whorehouse with free liquor and continuous showings of Three Stooges movies." Such is conversation between Heather Davies and Garret Roark, lead actress and producer respectively of "Melrose Hills," once the country's highest rated teen television drama, now reduced to almost certain cancellation, as they walk along a Malibu beach film set. Five minutes later the snowy sand is stained with her blood after she is shot in front of a nationwide audience during a live broadcast of the show. "Six Degrees of Warren Beatty" is the story of Garret and his cast of young misfits and how their struggle to save the show became the darkest of the many black comedies written about Hollywood. Leading the charge is Hillary Davies, mother of the lead actress. The King Kong of Hollywood moms, Hillary has dedicated her life to making her hellion actress daughter a movie star and she's not about to let this bump in the road stop her. She conceives a plan, marrying the current "reality show" sensibility with the old "who shot J.R." cliffhanger drama, but needs Garret's cooperation to push it through. Seeing no alternatives, he reluctantly agrees, setting into motion a cycle of desperation and depravity bizarre even by Hollywood standards.
Author: Justin Gautreau Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190944587 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 217
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The Last Word argues that the Hollywood novel opened up space for cultural critique of the film industry at a time when the industry lacked the capacity to critique itself. While the young studio system worked tirelessly to burnish its public image in the wake of celebrity scandal, several industry insiders wrote fiction to fill in what newspapers and fan magazines left out. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, these novels aimed to expose the invisible machinery of classical Hollywood cinema, including not only the evolving artifice of the screen but also the promotional discourse that complemented it. As likeminded filmmakers in the 1940s and 1950s gradually brought the dark side of the industry to the screen, however, the Hollywood novel found itself struggling to live up to its original promise of delivering the unfilmable. By the 1960s, desperate to remain relevant, the genre had devolved into little more than erotic fantasy of movie stars behind closed doors, perhaps the only thing the public couldn't already find elsewhere. Still, given their unique ability to speak beyond the institutional restraints of their time, these earlier works offer a window into the industry's dynamic creation and re-creation of itself in the public imagination.
Author: David Freeman Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0743249755 Category : Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Languages : en Pages : 290
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Veteran Hollywood insider and acclaimed author David Freeman offers a slyly satirical and thoroughly engaging portrait of a down-and-out screenwriter making his big play to get back on top.
Author: Richard Rushfield Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0312242263 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 198
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"Stu Bluminvitz is a young, naive writer with a dream to sell his Tarantino-meets-Turner and Hooch screenplay, Kennel Break, to a major studio and make enough money to finally move out of his parents' house."--Jacket.
Author: Anthony Slide Publisher: McFarland ISBN: Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 332
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This reference book details over 1,200 English-language works from a variety of genres, such as historical novels, romances, mysteries and thrillers. Arranged by author, the entries include bibliographic information on the books, a brief synopsis that sets the author's work in context, and a critical examination.
Author: Felice Picano Publisher: ISBN: 9780998126289 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 346
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Noted names and events of the 1970s, '80s, and '90s intermingle with personal triumphs and private tragedies in this roman à clef with a heart. Felice Picano explores the competing tensions between celebrity and integrity, love and lust, set amid the grittiness of Manhattan and the voluptuous of Hollywood.
Author: Michael Tolkin Publisher: Grove Press ISBN: 9780802135131 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 214
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A senior vice president of production at a major Hollywood studio receives a death threat from a rejected writer, plunging him into a nightmare that threatens both his life, his job, and the woman he loves in this devastating portrait of contemporary Hollywood.
Author: Gore Vidal
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