(Ebook) What Just Happened? by Art Linson, Peter Biskind ISBN 9780802143389, 0802143385, B005FFPW44

(Ebook) What Just Happened? by Art Linson, Peter Biskind ISBN 9780802143389, 0802143385, B005FFPW44

As a Hollywood film producer, Art Linson has had a hand in producing some of the most unforgettable films of the last half-century - Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Untouchables,Fight Club - and has worked with some of America’s finest actors and directors. Dubbed by the Los Angeles Times “a breezy anatomy of ritual humiliation,” Art Linson’s Hollywood memoir What Just Happened? gives us a brutally honest, funny, and comprehensive tour through the horrors of Hollywood. To be released in 2008 as a feature film starring Robert De Niro and featuring appearances from Bruce Willis, Sean Penn, and John Turturro, among others, Grove Press’s reissue of Linson’s hysterical memoir will include a new foreword, the film’s script, and several black-and-white shots from the film. An amusing account of the unendingly humiliating business of a life spent trying to get movies made – there is a wince-inducing anecdote of trying to persuade Alec Baldwin to go back into his trailer and shave off the inappropriate straggly beard he had grown just before filming. Linson describes the process of sucking up to powerful people as “bog snorkelling” and “grabbing the knee pads”.