Hollywood Animal
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.30 (633 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375718958 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 752 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. and then tried to take credit for Eszterhas’s script. From Publishers Weekly Author/screenwriter Eszterhas introduces readers to the ultimate in Hollywood animal thinking when he quotes an unnamed Oscar-winning producer as saying, "the only time I’ll root for anybody to be a success is if he or she has cancer, and I know for certain that the cancer is terminal." Eszterhas’s book is unabashedly vulgar, a brutally revealing blend of sex and greed that goes much further than Peter Biskind’s Down and Dirty Pictu
So much more than I bargained for. A. Marbach I will be the first to admit that I bought this book because it was touted as "THE MUST READ Hollywood TELL-ALL." Then I started reading itand at first I decided that this book was probably not going to be one I finished because it was just about Joe and the not-so-nice (animal) man that he is in HollywoodBut then I started to get wrapped up into his childhood, being an young immigrant in the USA and his experiences growing up and an immigrant and a child whose mother suffered from mental illness.This book is telling, but s. Rebel With A Cause Lynne Berry to destroy himself, but he finally stopped his smoking and drinking. Joe is a one of a kind, rebellious Hungarian who is truly a self-made man. I enjoy his writing immensely. He is good looking in a sinister sort of way. This book covers his life from childhood to the present. His conflict in leaving his first wife for his present wife, Naomi, is a book in itself. The screenplays he has written were excellent movies: Sliver, Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge, Showgirls, Flashdancehow can you beat that. He was an intimate of Sharo. Much More Than A Hollywood Tell All Love him or hate him, at the very least you have to tip your hat for such a raw and honest biography. I admit when I first bought this it was for the titilation factor; I wanted to read all the dirt on Sharon Stone and Michael Ovitz, and all the other Hollywood heavyweights he's worked with. What I didn't expect/didn't know is how much of the book would be about his young life, growing up a Hungarian immigrant in Ohio, and the struggles his family had. Nor did I expect the deep and complicated relationship with his father,
Hollywood Animal is an enthralling, provocative memoir: a moving celebration of the human spirit.. Joe Eszterhas had everything Hollywood could offer. A combination of insider and rebel, he saw and participated in the fights, the deals, the backstabbing, and all the sex and drugs. It shows how a struggling journalist became the most successful screenwriter of all time, and how a man who had access to the most beautiful women in Hollywood ultimately chose to live with the love of his life in a small town in Ohio. Hollywood Animal reveals the trajectory of Eszterhas's life in gripping detail, from his childhood in a refugee camp, to his battle with a devastating cancer. But here, in his candid and heartwrenching memoir, we see therest of the story: the inspiring account of the child of Hungarian immigrants who, against all odds, grows up to live the American Dream. Above all, it is the story of a father and a son, and the turbulent relationship that was an unending cycle of heartbreak