A life in movies : stories from 50 years in Hollywood /
Shares the life and career of the producer, writer, and director charting the changes in Hollywood over the decades.
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New York :
Abrams Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- From Coney Island to William Morris to Hollywood
- Actually making movies, Double Trouble, and a very tough Lee Marvin in Point Blank
- A rebuff of Shakespeare, a welcome from Jack Warner, and diversity
- From the college campus uprising, to decadence in London, to a Hollywood dance marathon, to the Cannes Film Festival
- Starting a long friendship with the great actor Bob De Niro, the 1970s drug culture, and two different looks at the Los Angeles Police Department
- From Africa with Barbra Streisand to Charlie Bronson and a fine script that went sour
- To quote Rick in Casablanca, "This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
- From Rocky to Oscar
- A very different fight film
- De Niro and Pacino have The Right Stuff
- The Cold War stars in one movie, the Revolutionary War in another, and one very fine movie doesn't get made
- A trip to Paris pays off
- Two political films and a couple of Goodfellas
- A career change from producer to director, back to producer (almost)
- Working with some special ladies--Sandra Bullock and Demi Moore--and a special doctor, Oliver Sacks
- Life with Kevin Kline is De-Lovely; a director gets bullied into not making a film
- From Camp Polk, Louisiana, to the Iraq War
- A wild ride to Wall Street, a gamble turning over a classic to a new generation, a sad loss, and a long-delayed Silence
- Old friends.