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Title: Hollywood Animal : A Memoir by JOE ESZTERHAS ISBN: 0-375-41355-3 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 27 January, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.79 (73 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Judge the book, not the man
Comment: It seems some people are giving this book a low rating based on the movies this guy released...which, let's face it, aren't exactly the pillars of morality. However, Joe writes about his life and holds no punches. He reveals some good dirt on some Hollywood folks, including Sly Stallone, Sharon Stone, and more.
The Hollywood stories account for a little more than half of the novel...there's a lot of interesting stories about Joe growing up.
This memoir is written really well and gives a good, insider's look at the weird world that is Hollywood. If you can look past Showgirls and Basic Instinct, this is a must read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Brutally honest - and ultimately depressing - insider diary.
Comment: From reading "Hollywood Animal," readers will probably surmise that the upper echelons of Hollywood's power stratum - actors, agents, directors, studio executives - are a group of morally and ethically bankrupt, no-talent sub-humans who will lie, steal, cheat - and occasionally bully - their way to fame and fortune (and most of the time they'll be right). Eszterhas is probably correct that he'll best be remembered for a memorable scene involving Sharon Stone (from "Basic Instinct" - you know which one) that he, in fact, did not even write. Except for a few now-dated and generally forgotten box office hits (ie "Flashdance," "Jagged Edge"), the book also demonstrates that Eszterhas and many in Hollywood can often fail upwards and get extremely wealthy in the process. Hollywood's the only town where you can consistently produce more flops than hits and get paid more each time. No doubt, "Hollywood Animal" is a thrilling, fast-paced, brutally honest insider account and must-read that's like a cathartic personal payback to those who have scorned him (made possible by loads of "F-you money"). And it sure made me wonder about what he must have left out. However, I did find myself quickly skimming over his personal childhood family flashbacks as only the Hollywood parts interested me. Ultimately it left me feeling depressed about the movie biz and longing for an earlier time when the general public was only interested in quality films and didn't know, care, or talk about weekend boxoffice results, actor salaries, first dollar gross participation, etc.
Rating: 4
Summary: It¿s guys like this that make Hollywood what it is.
Comment: This is a big but fast-reading book that should appeal to those who enjoy behind-the-scenes Hollywood. Joe Eszterhas writes well, although you may wonder why he has chosen to detail how self-centered, egotistical, and greedy he is. His "filmography," which I find on the internet, strongly suggests that he's basically a hack screenwriter whose claim to fame centers on making the most lucrative deals for himself regardless of who he has to bulldoze to do it. His sense of self seems invested in being the highest-paid screenwriter in Hollywood, and he appears most threatened when he suspects that someone else may get more for a screenplay deal than he does. He may think that admitting his deficiencies will expunge his responsibility for them. Or more likely, he's just writing for money again.
There's little or nothing in the book to indicate how Mr. Eszterhas became the "Hollywood Animal" that he is. He elides almost all mention of his work as a journalist and leaps from adolescence in Cleveland to his position atop the money pile in Hollywood. He seems genetically programmed to fit right in with our impression that Hollywood is peopled by self-seeking, backbiting, greedy, schlock merchants for whom making the big money deal is the first order of the day. Making movies seems to be only a byproduct of all this deal-making, and it's a tribute to the technicians that they turn out as well as they do.
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Title: Down and Dirty Pictures : Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film by Peter Biskind ISBN: 068486259X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon -- The Case Against Celebrity by Andrew Breitbart, Mark Ebner ISBN: 0471450510 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 24 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Howling at the Moon : The Odyssey of a Monstrous Music Mogul in an Age of Excess by WALTER YETNIKOFF, DAVID RITZ ISBN: 0767915364 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Best Awful by Carrie Fisher ISBN: 0684809133 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Dangerous Company : Dark Tales From Tinseltown by Peter Bart ISBN: 1401351905 Publisher: Miramax Pub. Date: 26 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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