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[bookcover] The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everyone Else by Kim Masters
Hardcover - 368 pages (March 22, 2000). This Spring is filled with books on Hollywood's Jewish leaders. First Wasserman, then Geffen, then Ovitz, now Eisner. This is a vivid, entertaining, tell-all book that replaces Eisner's no-tell auto-biography (Work In Progress). Masters paints a portrait, sometimes unfair, of Eisner as gifted and charming, yet manipulative and cutthroat (but it's Hollywood) and likens him to an isolated, secluded Richard Nixon alone with his thoughts and enemies. This is the story of how Eisner ascended to the throne at The Magic Kingdom. This is the real story about how Eisner and Frank Wells recreated Disney, taking it from a value of $2 billion to $28 billion, or 3200% growth when you include dividends and splits. This is especially about his falling out with Katzenberg. Includes interviews with Silverman, Allen, Diller, Sheinberg, Ovitz, and the late Don Simpson to name a handful. Note to file: Hey, when you are dealing with multi million dollar budgets, you have to be a tough negotiator and ride producers hard. Click to read more reviews of this book.
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[bookcover click me] The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys and Sells the New Hollywood. By Tom King
(Feb 2000). Wall Street Journal reporter Tom King's unauthorized (but interviewed) bio on David Geffen. Over 300 interviews were conducted to create this bio of Geffen, who started in the mailroom of the William Morris agency (everyone, even lawyers, do a stint in the mailroom), to founding Geffen and Asylum records, to backing Cats and Dreamgirls, to producing the film Risky Business, to founding Dreamworks SKG.
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[book] Where Did I Go Right? : You're No One In Hollywood Unless Someone Wants You Dead by Bernie Brillstein with David Rensin
Hardcover - 400 pages (Winter 1999). Let me be blunt. This is an NC-17 rated book. Hollywood is a backbiting dirty biz of low or no ethics that was founded by Jewish immigrants and still populated by a wide assortment of Jewish players with a wide range of temperaments and personal agendas, like Mike Ovitz, Mike Eisner, and Brillstein. Bernie Brillstein was a major player and is a major-domo name dropper, and his account of his life is one of the few Hollywood books that is actually honest, even given all the narcissism. He confronts the deaths of Belushi and Henson (both clients), but fails in his rationalization of Belushi's drug addiction. He was on the inside of The Blues Brothers, The Muppet Show, and Ghostbusters, oh and Hee Haw also (didn't you know that Hee Haw was Jewish?). Brillstein was a fat Jewish New York kid from the Upper West Side (eldorado) and a vaudevillian family (Jack Pearl). Bernie started out in the William Morris Agency mailroom in 1955 (everyone starts in the mailroom, you know) to meet women (and he met many, since he was married countless times.) He was promoted to agent, and then became a producer, a personal manager, and a studio head (Lorimar). Now retired, he has worked with all the top comedians, and through his Brillstein / Grey company he has managed stars and demi-stars like Dennis Miller, Norm Crosby, Bill Maher, Burns and Schrieber (remember them?), the late Phil Hartman, David Spade, and anyone from SNL, and has been sued by Gary Shandling for $100 million. He pitches a fascinating story of the biz behind our popular culture. Click to read more reviews of this book.
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[book] Show Me the Magic by Paul Mazursky
Hardcover - 270 pages (June 1999). An interesting, light and witty Summer read that gives you insight into Mazursky's career and tales of movie production. Mazursky, born in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn started out as an actor (Blackboard Jungle), moved on to be a comedy writer (Danny Kaye, I Love You Alice B Toklas) when acting parts were infrequent, and made his directorial debut with Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice. My favorite scenes in the book? When a young Mazursky catches his zade eating his bubbe's herring on the afternoon of Yom Kippur; when Eisner and Katzenberg ask Mazursky if he thinks that the I.B. Singer story (Enemies, A Love Story) is too Jewish... maybe it can be about the Cambodian Holocaust instead of the WWII one; when Richard Dreyfus pulls out of the Enemies project; and the creation of Down and Out in Beverly Hills. To read more about it, click below.
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[book] The Last Mogul : Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood by Dennis McDougal
$28 before 30% off. Hardcover - 448 pages (November 1998). Is Lew Wasserman the Godfather of Hollywood? His career has spanned the silent era, the studio moguls, through to times of special effects and Japanese money. McDougal chronicles the life and times of Lew Wasserman, the powerful and secretive head of MCA who determined the fates of fabled stars and multinational corporations--and who forged a web of influence that stretched from Hollywood to the White House, and into the heart of organized crime.
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[book] City of Dreams : The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures by Bernard F. Dick
$30 before 30% off. Hardcover - 344 pages (April 1997). In February 1906 Carl Laemmle, an immigrant and former clothing store manager, opened his first nickelodeon in Chicago. He quickly moved from exhibition to distribution and soon entered the realm of film production. A master of publicity and promotions, within ten years "Uncle Carl" had moved his entire operation to southern California, founded a city, and established Universal Pictures as one of the major Hollywood studios. This is the 90 year history of Universal, which was not one of the "Big Five studios", but held its own as one of the "Little Three."
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[book] The Rise and Rise of David Geffen by Stephen Singular
$15 before discount. Hardcover - 288 pages (October 1997) To read more about it, click below.
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[book] Steven Spielberg : A Biography by Joseph McBride
$30 before 30% discount and no tax. Hardcover - 480 pages (May 1997) Simon & Schuster. To read more about it, click below.
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[book] The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies: A Critic's Ranking of the Very Best by Kathryn Bernheimer (Birch Lane Press, May 1998)
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[book] B. The Making of the Rugrats Movie: Behind the Scenes at Klasky Csupo by Jan Breslauer November 1998
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[book] Bridge of Light : Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds by J. Hoberman 1995, reprint edition
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[book] Laughter Through Tears : The Yiddish Cinema by Judith N. Goldberg 1982, FD University Press
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[book] An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler (Anchor Press, 1989)
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[book] Work In Progress by Michael Eisner (Random House, Sep 24, 1998). Auto-bio by Disney chief.
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[book] Steven Spielberg: A Biography by Joseph McBride (Simon and Schuster, May 1997)
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[book] American-Jewish Filmmakers: Traditions and Trends by David Desser and Lester D. Friedman (University of Illinois Press, 1993)
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[book] Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot by Michael Rogin (University of California Press, 1996) and paperback in June 1998
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[book] Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust by Annette Insdorf and Elie Wiesel (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
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[book] Shoah. The Complete Text of the Acclaimed Holocaust Film by Claude Lanzmann (Da Capo Press 1990)
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[book] The Visible Wall: Jews and Other Ethnic Outsiders in Swedish Film by Rochelle Wright (Southern Illinois University Press 1998)
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[book] Blackface, White Noise : Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot by Michael P. Rogin
$25 before 30% discount and no tax. Hardcover - 339 pages (June 1996) Univ California Press. To read more about it, click below.
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[book] An Empire of Their Own : How the Jews Invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler
$17 before discount and no tax. Paperback Rep edition (September 8, 1989). To read more about it, click below.
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[book] Winchell : Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity by Neal Gabler
$16 before discount and no tax. Paperback (October 1995) To read more about it, click below.
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[book] Bridge of Light : Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds by J. Hoberman
$30 and no tax. Paperback - 401 pages Reprint edition (August 1995) Temple Univ Press To read more about it, click below.
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[book] Spielberg's Holocaust : Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List by Yosefa Loshitzky (Editor)
$40 and no tax. Hardcover (June 1997) Indiana Univ To read more about it, click below.
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[book] The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies : A Critic's Ranking of the Very Best by Kathryn Bernheimer
$22 less our discount and no tax. Hardcover - 208 pages (May 1998) Birch Lane Pr. The first book to review and rank movies depicting the Jewish experience, "The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies" provides an insightful analysis of the ways in which Hollywood and the film community have handled such issues as anti-Semitism, assimilation, relations with gentiles, the Holocaust and its aftereffects, Zionism, and the Jewish commitment to social justice.
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[book] Life the Movie : How Entertainment Conquered Reality by Neal Gabler
$25 before discount and no tax. Hardcover - 303 pages (November 1998) Knopf. To read more about it, click below.
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[book] The Barry Diller Story : The Life and Times of America's Greatest Entertainment Mogul by George Mair
$25 before discount. Hardcover - 300 pages (April 1997).
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[book] Ovitz : The Inside Story of Hollywood's Most Controversial Power Broker by Robert Slater
$23 before discount. Hardcover - 360 pages (May 1997) McGraw-Hill. His career as an agent--and his astonishing year as president of the Walt Disney Company ... is the basis for an utterly reverential biography Ovitz by Robert Slater
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