This film producer's honest, hilarious behind-the-scenes memoir "details the planning, handholding and power games involved in making movies" (Publishers Weekly).
Art Linson has had a hand in producing some of the most unforgettable films of the past half-century-Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Untouchables, Fight Club-and has worked with some of America's finest actors and directors. In what theLos Angeles Timescalls "a breezy anatomy of ritual humiliation," his memoir gives us a brutally honest, funny, and comprehensive tour through the horrors of Hollywood.
"Art Linson puts a film freak exactly where he or she wants to be: in the Fox screening room during the studio brass's horrified first look atFight Club...Linson gives readers a glimpse into a bizarre world where 'It's good' is the absolute worst thing you can say about a movie." -Entertainment Weekly
"A hoot."-The Philadelphia Inquirer
Includes a new interview of Art Linson by Peter Biskind and the screenplay of the film version
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Art Linson was born in Chicago and grew up in Hollywood. He has been producing movies for twenty-four years, and his credits include The Untouchables, Heat, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Fight Club, and Scrooged. In 1995, he published his first book, A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Hollywood.