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Life and career. Art Linson has produced movies in every decade since the seventies including Fight Club, Heat, The Untouchables, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Into the Wild, and Melvin and Howard. Linson was an executive producer on the long-running FX television series Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014), as well as Yellowstone, starring Kevin Costner.
Jan 1, 2002 · Art Linson's riotous journey through the making of five major motion pictures. Whether he's trying to persuade an executive that Gwyneth Paltrow has enough chin to carry the lead in a movie, forcing an enraged Alec Baldwin to shave off his mountain-man beard, or sitting through an excruciating reading of a David Mamet script as Bob de Niro toys with the notion of heading up the cast, Art ...
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The structure works well - without giving anything away, Art Linson ties his anecdotal tales together within a conversation he is having with 'Jerry', a former studio head with a very sadistic sense of humour, someone who, now a nobody in Hollywood, is taking great delight in Linson's struggles, and I find this structure works very well.
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Praise “Art Linson’s dark gem of a book is a wickedly funny and sardonic insider’s look at life in the belly of the beast. It is the best user’s manual to Hollywood I know.” —Peter Biskind, author of Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film
Oct 3, 2008 · I like books on Hollywood biz and this one fits the bill by a real pro, Art Linson. Anyone involved with classics like Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Fight Club and Heat knows his way around the business and how it has changed in the last 30 years. Linson throws one kink in the normal Hollywood tell-all.
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Art Linson is the author of What Just Happened? (3.40 avg rating, 387 ratings, 49 reviews, published 2002), A Pound of Flesh (3.74 avg rating, 100 rating...
Sep 1, 2003 · Forget everything you've heard about Hollywood. What Just Happened: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line is the real deal. In Art Linson's true and uproarious tale of what it is to make movies, we get to explore, at close range, finicky directors, clueless executives, shameless marketers, famous actors, battered screenwriters, and hapless producers crossing paths in such calamitous ways ...
