Yeah, it's fantastic. Forgot about Scorcese and Cimino. Good tales about how Coppola almost killed everyone making Apocalypse Now and Cimino killed UA making Heaven's Gate (cost $44 million; earned $1.2).
Oh, good. Thanks. I've already ordered Biskind's Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film. It's not as heralded as ER/RB but should be interesting.
Also worth seeing the film based on Robert Evan's autobiography The Kid Stays In The Picture for more on that period of Hollywood. A well constructed and entertaining documentary.
I can't recommend the book it's based on, not having read it.
I'm currently reading Nobody Ever Says Thank You by Jonathan wilson. Its a difficult and fascinating book but i've lost all respect for Brian Clough as a person as he is such a manipulative, insecure, egotistical, cantakerous man.
Final Cut by Steven Bach
Notes: The Making of Apocalypse Now by Eleanor Coppola
The Apocalypse Now Book by Peter Cowie
The Godfather Book by Peter Cowie
The Kid Stays In The Picture by Robert Evans
High Concept by Charles Fleming
Adventures In The Screen Trade by William Goldman
You'll Never Lunch [sic] In This Town Again by Julia Phillips
Thanks WOM.
Of those, I've only read the Goldman book. Worth reading, but not nearly as much to get your teeth into as ER/RB.
I'll add the others to the ever-lengthening 'to read' list.
Now reading The Door That Led To Where by Sally Gardner, about a boy who goes back in time to the 19th century. It's excellent, as are the majority of her books. I'm a kids' librarian so it's fine to read loads of children's books, right?
It's fine to read children's books anyway, I'd say. They're how we all* got into reading in the first place after all.
I once did one of those Facebook status things where you're asked to list your favourite things and put Winnie-the-Pooh down as one of my five favourite books. A couple of my friends, separately, expressed admiration for me putting it without caring what people would say about me listing a children's book. I didn't really understand why I wouldn't; the reading bug hit me very early and that was one of the first books I have strong memories of loving (I've just realised it's the book I also have listed as my favourite on my profile on here). Anyone who's liked reading from a young age and doesn't count what they read as a child among their favourite/most memorable books read is missing a large part of the point.
I'd never looked at it like that before, but I suppose you're right.
It's the one book that's been with me in every place I've ever called home, and always the copy my uncle gave me for Christmas when I was 3 or 4 years old.
Just in the final few pages of The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy. Above and beyond good. A terrific look at the history of American comedy from Vaudeville through radio, early TV, standup and everything in between.
WOM wrote: Just in the final few pages of The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy. Above and beyond good. A terrific look at the history of American comedy from Vaudeville through radio, early TV, standup and everything in between.
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