What Just Happened? - Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line (Paperback, Revised Edition)

Art Linson's riotous journey through the making of five major motion pictures.
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, or sitting through an excruciating reading of a David Mamet script as Bob de Niro toys with the notion of heading up the cast, Art Linson gives us a brutally honest, funny, and comprehensive tour through the horrors of Hollywood, from script to screen.
In What Just Happened? 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. Linson is the ideal guide through this heavily land-mined, high-stakes industry, pausing for a moment here or there to explain some aspect or pitfall of the business, to wax nostalgic about film days past, or to serve up a compelling inside Hollywood tale of woe. Whether you love the movies or not, you won't be able to resist the stories behind them.

General

Imprint:	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2008
First published:	October 2008
Authors:	Art Linson
Dimensions:	209 x 139 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	224
Edition:	Revised Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8021-4338-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Promotions
LSN:	0-8021-4338-5
Barcode:	9780802143389

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