The Devil's Guide to Hollywood - Couverture souple

Eszterhas, Joe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0715637193 ISBN 13 : 9780715637197

Editeur : Duckworth, 2009

Synopsis

The Devil's Guide to Hollywood Reveals things about the movies - the players, the personalities, the legends - and screenwriting itself. Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'Punchy, belligerent... hilarious.' Guardian

'Accessible, perceptive, passionate and funny, delivered in the author's characteristic no-holds-barred, visceral, profanity-strewn prose... An indispensable addition to the library of anyone interested in screenwriting or Hollywood folklore.' The Sunday Times

'Addictive... shockingly indiscreet.' Metro

'Leaves no bridge unburned... Pithy and pompous, funny and bitter... hard to put down.' Total Film

'Brimming with great quotations.' Toby Young'Eszterhas is evidently a master of the game... a writer who has sold his scripts but not his soul.' Sunday Express

'He is without shame, and it is this utter shamelessness that makes his book such rollicking fun... stuffed full of raunchy gossip.' Mail on Sunday, Book of the Week

'An amusing and scandal-packed guide to making yourself Hollywood's highest-paid screenwriter... as a peek though a broken window into the mind of one of history's most successful screenwriters, and a guide to getting ahead, it's in a class of its own.' --Empire

'Leaves no bridge unburned... Pithy and pompous, funny and bitter... hard to put down' -- Total Film. 'Brimming with great quotations' -- Toby Young. 'Eszterhas is evidently a master of the game... a writer who has sold his scripts but not his soul' --**** Sunday Express

'He is without shame, and it is this utter shamelessness that makes his book such rollicking fun... stuffed full of raunchy gossip' -- Mail on Sunday, Book of the Week. 'An amusing and scandal-packed guide to making yourself Hollywood's highest-paid screenwriter... As a peek though a broken window into the mind of one of history's most successful screenwriters, and a guide to getting ahead, it's in a class of its own' --Empire

Présentation de l'éditeur

Hilarious, colourful but also practical, this is required reading for anyone who's ever thought of writing for the screen, and for anyone who wants the inside story on the organised insanity of the movie business. Joe Eszterhas has written some of Hollywood's biggest hits Basic Instinct, Flashdance and walked away with some of the largest writing cheques in the industry's history. In The Devil's Guide to Hollywood he reveals everything he knows about the movies, the players, the personalities, the legends and screenwriting itself revealing all that has inspired, amused and enraged him in Hollywood since his career began.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Duckworth
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0715637193
• ISBN 13: 9780715637197
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416