Critic-producer Nat Segaloff was granted access to private papers,
production records, never-before-published interviews, and
specialized archives in reconstructing the colorful, touching, and
sometimes scandalous stories behind the making of the last films of
some of Hollywood's top directors. Winningly readable and yet
meticulously researched, its substantial entries range from Robert
Aldrich and Robert Altman to Peter Yates and Fred Zinnemann, and
John Ford and Howard Hawks to Otto Preminger and Richard Brooks.
Certain to attract controversy because of whom it ignores as well
as whom it includes, Final Cuts presents fifty widely varied
chronicles of success and failure, inspiration and ennui, elation
and heartache, and every other emotion enjoyed or endured by the
greatest filmmakers that Hollywood ever knew. About the Author Nat
Segaloff always wanted to write and produce, but it took him
several careers before he learned how to get paid for it. He was a
journalist for The Boston Herald covering the motion picture
business, but has also variously been a studio publicist (Fox, UA,
Columbia), college teacher (Boston University, Boston College),
on-air TV talent (Group W), entertainment critic (CBS radio) and
author (nine books including Hurricane Billy: The Stormy Life and
Films of William Friedkin and, as co-author, Love Stories:
Hollywood's Most Romantic Movies). He has contributed career
monographs on screenwriters Stirling Silliphant, Walon Green, Paul
Mazursky and John Milius to the University of California Press's
acclaimed Backstory series, and his writing has appeared in such
varied periodicals as Film Comment, Written By, International
Documentary, Animation Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor,
Time Out (US), MacWorld, and American Movie Classics Magazine. He
was also senior reviewer for AudiobookCafe.com. His The
Everything(r) Etiquette Book and The Everything Trivia Book and The
Everything(r) Tall Tales, Legends and Outrageous Lies Book are in
multiple printings for Adams Media Corp. As a TV writer-producer,
Segaloff helped perfect the format and create episodes for
A&E's flagship "Biography" series. His distinctive productions
include John Belushi: Funny You Should Ask; Shari Lewis & Lamb
Chop; Larry King: Talk of Fame; Darryl F. Zanuck: Twentieth
Century-Filmmaker and Stan Lee: The ComiX-MAN He has written and
co-produced the Rock 'n' Roll Moments music documentaries for The
Learning Channel/Malcolm Leo Productions, and has written and/or
produced programming for New World, Disney, Turner and USA
Networks. He is co-creator/co-producer of Judgment Day with
Grosso-Jacobson Communications Corp. for HBO. His extraterrestrial
endeavors include the cheeky sequel to the Orson Welles "Invasion
From Mars" radio hoax, When Welles Collide, which featured a "Star
Trek"(r) cast. It was produced by L.A. Theatre Works and has become
a Halloween tradition on National Public Radio. In 1996 he formed
the multi-media production company Alien Voices(r) with actors
Leonard Nimoy and actor John de Lancie and produced five
best-selling, fully dramatized audio plays for Simon &
Schuster: The Time Machine, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The
Lost World, The Invisible Man and The First Men in the Moon, all of
which feature "Star Trek"(r) casts. Additionally, his teleplay for
The First Men in the Moon was the first-ever TV/Internet simulcast
and was presented live by The Sci-Fi Channel. He has also written
narrative concerts for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, celebrity
events, is a script consultant, and was a contributing writer to
Moving Pictures
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