Picture
by Lillian Ross, Anjelica Huston

List Price: $16.95
Our Price: $11.62
You Save: $5.33 (31%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $8.98 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions

Book Summary Information

• ISBN13: 9780306811289
• Condition: New
• Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!

Book Reviews of Picture

Book Review: Devastating inside look at Hollywood
Summary: 5 Stars

Then come the ill-conceived (or deliberately rigged) sneak previews. This serious war drama is screened at a local theater for an audience that came to see a Ginger Rogers romantic comedy, and the audience response is... (surprise!) vociferously negative. They find the film depressing, and many walk out. The old adage that new executives try to kill the projects put into the works by their predecessors may apply. Schary uses these preview results to justify having the movie re-cut while Huston is out of the country working on another film.

Anyone who suspects that there never was a golden age of Hollywood without inept executives and corporate committees will enjoy this book. You wonder how anything good ever gets made. Cynics will chuckle, film lovers will just shake their heads in sorrow. Of course, there is that other adage about not wanting to see how the sausage gets made...

Industries & Professions Books

• Books > Subjects > Business & Investing
• Humor & Entertainment > Movies
• History > Americas > United States > State & Local