As wild and sexy and over the top as the decade it brings to life; author; William Stadiem; tells the inside story of Hollywood producers in the 80s.From hits like Beverly Hills Cop; Top Gun and Batman to flops like Heavens Gate; Howard the Duck and Leonard Part 6; Hollywood was never more excessive than it was in the 1980s. In this; the Moneywood era; the purse strings were not controlled by reasonably consenting adults but by pop culture cowboys who couldnt balance their own checkbooks. What they could do was sweet talk the talent; seduce the starlets; snowball the Japanese and slither out of Dodge when the low grosses trickled in. Their out of control lifestyles and know-nothing; raging narcissistic personalities make the original brutal studio heads like Sam Goldwyn and Jack Warner seem like Oxford dons. Yet; for all their flops; these Scoundrels of Spago turned Hollywood into a Big Business that was catnip to Wall Street. They were The Producers; and they were way beyond anything Mel Brooks could dream up.The Moneywood cast of characters includes: -Simpson and Bruckheimer; Guber and Peters; Eisner/Katzenberg/Ovitz: An unusual fresh take on the usual subjects. -Ray Stark; the wizard of Holmby Hills; the most powerful producer of the 80s. -Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna; the Rambo boys; who went from making wigs to making blockbusters.-Menahem Golan-Yoram Globus; the Israeli schlockmeisters who proved that every star had a price.-David Begelman; the embezzler; gambler and sex addict who was rewarded for his sins by getting to run both Columbia and MGM.-Roland Betts; the aristocratic Silver Screen Partners founder and former Yale frat-mate of George W. Bush who was a master at playing the Reagan White House card.-Giancarlo Parretti; the Italian cannery worker who bought MGM; with a little help from his (Sicilian) friends.-David Puttnam The high-toned English advertising whiz who was supposed to raise the Hollywood bar; but ended up barred from Hollywood.Moneywood is the ultimate expose of the real hit men of Hollywoods go-go decade.
#3420921 in eBooks 2012-07-26 2015-06-01File Name: B008PL7HVG
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