Great Hollywood Wit

Author: Gene Shalit
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 9780312282738
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Great Hollywood Wit rollicks with hilarious movie lines and backstage zingers-smart, tart, and (in Sir John Gielgud's case) wicked: "Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can't act in any of them." Julia Roberts, fashion buff: "I only put clothes on so that I'm not naked when I go out shopping." Retiring Burt Reynolds: "You can only hold your stomach in for so many years." Great Hollywood Wit is an unequaled cavalcade of hilarity that you'll laugh through again and again. A wonderful one-of-a-kind gift.

Great Hollywood Wit

Author: Gene Shalit
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312282729
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
Presents a collection of quotations that introduces readers to a treasure trove of Hollywood humor.

Great Hollywood Wit

Author: Gene Shalit
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429980486
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute

Author: George Stevens, Jr.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307518124
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 734

Book Description
ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The first book to bring together interviews of master moviemakers from the American Film Institute’s renowned seminars, Conversations with the Great Moviemakers, offers an unmatched history of American cinema in the words of its greatest practitioners. Here are the incomparable directors Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, King Vidor, David Lean, Fritz Lang (“I learned only from bad films”), William Wyler, and George Stevens; renowned producers and cinematographers; celebrated screenwriters Ray Bradbury and Ernest Lehman; as well as the immortal Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini (“Making a movie is a mathematical operation. It’s absolutely impossible to improvise”). Taken together, these conversations offer uniquely intimate access to the thinking, the wisdom, and the genius of cinema’s most talented pioneers.

The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood

Author: Max Wilk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 366

Book Description

Hollywood Wit

Author: Rosemarie Jarski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781853753855
Category : Motion picture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
In Wisecracks - Great Lines from the Classic Hollywood Movies, Rosmarie Jarski put together a compendium of both famous and rarely heard quips from the silver screen. Now as a companion piece to these on screen witticisms, she has put together a collection from off-camera in Hollywood.

Made In Hollywood

Author: Gina Schock
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 076247498X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
The Go-Go’s were the first all-female rock group in history to write their own songs, play their own instruments, and reach the top of the Billboard charts with their #1 album, Beauty and the Beat. Made In Hollywood is drummer Gina Schock’s personal account of the band, which includes a treasure trove of photographs and memorabilia collected over the course of her 40-year career. The Go-Go’s debut album, Beauty and the Beat, rose to the top of the charts in 1981 and their hit songs "We Got the Beat", "Our Lips Are Sealed", “Vacation”, and "Head Over Heels" (to name a few) served as a soundtrack to our lives in the ‘80s. Now, after the release of their Critics Choice Award-winning Showtime documentary, and in anticipation of their forthcoming induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and their 2021 West Coast shows, Gina takes fans behind the scenes for a rare look at her personal images documenting the band's wild journey to the heights of fame and stardom. Featuring posters, photographs, Polaroids, and other memorabilia from her archives, Made In Hollywood also includes stories from each member of the Go-Go’s, along with other cultural luminaries like Kate Pierson, Jodie Foster, Dave Stewart, Martha Quinn, and Paul Reubens. With a style as bold and distinctive as any Go-Go’s album, Made In Hollywood is the perfect tribute to one of the world's most iconic groups.

Great Presidential Wit

Author: Robert J. Dole
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743203925
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
The former senator and presidential candidate collects bipartisan presidential humor from famous, and not-so-famous, chief executives, from Washington to Clinton.

Classic Hollywood Wit

Author: Cruver K (author)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781476339412
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Who Is Michael Ovitz?

Author: Michael Ovitz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101601485
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
If you're going to read one book about Hollywood, this is the one. As the co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Michael Ovitz earned a reputation for ruthless negotiation, brilliant strategy, and fierce loyalty to his clients. He reinvented the role of the agent and helped shape the careers of hundreds of A-list entertainers, directors, and writers, including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Sean Connery, Bill Murray, Robin Williams, and David Letterman. But this personal history is much more than a fascinating account of celebrity friendships and bare-knuckled dealmaking. It's also an underdog's story: How did a middle-class kid from Encino work his way into the William Morris mailroom, and eventually become the most powerful person in Hollywood? How did an agent (even a superagent) also become a power in producing, advertising, mergers & acquisitions, and modern art? And what were the personal consequences of all those deals? After decades of near-silence in the face of controversy, Ovitz is finally telling his whole story, with remarkable candor and insight.