- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Limelight Editions; New edition edition (April 1985)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0879100311
- ISBN-13: 978-0879100315
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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In 1967, John Gregory Dunne asked for unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox. Miraculously, he got it. For one year Dunne went everywhere there was to go and talked to everyone worth talking to within the studio. He tracked every step of the creation of pictures like "Dr. Dolittle," "Planet of the Apes," and "The Boston Strangler." The result is a work of reportage that, thirty years later, may still be our most minutely observed and therefore most uproariously funny portrait of the motion picture business.
Whether he is recounting a showdown between Fox's studio head and two suave shark-like agents, watching a producer's girlfriend steal a silver plate from a restaurant, or shielding his eyes against the glare of a Hollywood premiere where the guests include a chimp in a white tie and tails, Dunne captures his subject in all its showmanship, savvy, vulgarity, and hype. Not since F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West has anyone done Hollywood better.
"Reads as racily as a novel...(Dunne) has a novelist's ear for speech and eye for revealing detail...Anyone who has tiptoed along those corridors of power is bound to say that Dunne's impressionism rings true."--Los Angeles Times --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Whether he is recounting a showdown between Fox's studio head and two suave shark-like agents, watching a producer's girlfriend steal a silver plate from a restaurant, or shielding his eyes against the glare of a Hollywood premiere where the guests include a chimp in a white tie and tails, Dunne captures his subject in all its showmanship, savvy, vulgarity, and hype. Not since F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West has anyone done Hollywood better.
"Reads as racily as a novel...(Dunne) has a novelist's ear for speech and eye for revealing detail...Anyone who has tiptoed along those corridors of power is bound to say that Dunne's impressionism rings true."--Los Angeles Times --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Based on his unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox, Dunne's classic work of Hollywood reportage may still be the most minutely detailed and uproariously funny work of its kind. At once an unblinking critique and unstinting celebration, "The Studio" captures every nuance of the picture business's showmanship, savvy, vulgarity, and hype .
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
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5.0 out of 5 stars
This Classic Should Never Be Out Of Print...,
By Edwin Graf Diemer (Red Bank, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Studio (Paperback)
Absolutely brilliant-people in Hollywood still refer to "AD" (After Dunne), and you know a book like this won't happen again. The attitude is "Where you find clowns there is usually a circus", and the level of amaturism on display here is astounding. The best section has to be the one on the making of the legendary flop "Dr. Dolittle"-you are there as they read the disastrous preview cards. A $18 million investment is on the line, and all the producer's girlfriend can think of is stealing a silver tray from a restaurant and what dress to wear for the premiere. Hilarious, and still required reading at film study courses today.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great movie book,
This review is from: The Studio (Paperback)
If you like reading about "inside" Hollywood, this is a book Ihighly recommend. Dunne goes inside 20th Century Fox and tells all. Actually quite funny.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A must-read for industry buffs, but not for everybody.,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Studio (Paperback)
Excellent, casual writing style. Great stories of the Zanucks and others, their gut-based and fact-less decision making and egos. An easy read on that quick plane trip from Hollywood to your Napa hideaway.
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