The Men Who Would be King
by Laporte, Nicole
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine to Fine
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. Nice copy of first printing. Appears unread. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine to Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
For sixty years, since the birth of United Artists, the studio landscape was unchanged.Then came Hollywood’s Circus Maximus—created by director Steven Spielberg, billionaire David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who gave the world The Lion King —an entertainment empire called DreamWorks. Now Nicole LaPorte,who covered the company for Variety , goes behind the hype to reveal for the first time the delicious truth of what happened. Readers will feel they are part of the creative calamities of moviemaking as LaPorte’s fly-on-the-wall detail shows us Hollywood’s bizarre rules of business.We see the clashes between the often otherworldly Spielberg’s troops and Katzenberg’s warriors, the debacles and disasters, but also the Oscar-winning triumphs, including Saving Private Ryan .We watch as the studio burns through billions, its rich owners get richer, and everybody else suffers.We see Geffen seducing investors likeMicrosoft’s Paul Allen, showing his steel against CAA’s Michael Ovitz, and staging fireworks during negotiations with Paramount and Disney. Here is Hollywood, up close, glamorous, and gritty.
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- Bookseller
- Timothy Norlen Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014097
- Title
- The Men Who Would be King
- Author
- Laporte, Nicole
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine to Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2010
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions; Film;
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Timothy Norlen Bookseller
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SANTA BARBARA, California
About Timothy Norlen Bookseller
I am a internet based bookstore that specializes in Modern First Editions, film sources, Mystery and Detective fiction and Western Americana. I have approximately 10,000 books, primarily first editions with about 1300 of them signed by the author. I try and stock only books that are sound, clean and attractive.
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