Tell me how you love the picture : a Hollywood life

Name/Title

Tell me how you love the picture : a Hollywood life

Entry/Object ID

Library.1054

Description

x, 239 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm Tell me how you love the picture : a Hollywood life by Edward Feldman. Inscribed on title page by Tom Barton. Ed Feldman's career began in advertising and publicity at 20th Century-Fox in the 1950s, and from there he worked his way up to executive studio positions with Seven Arts, Filmways, and Warner Bros. He has spent the last 25 years as a successful producer. Having worked with some of the best talent in the industry, he tells what it takes to produce a film and survive the jungles of Hollywood. This memoir takes us behind the scenes with stories about major personalities ranging from Bette Davis to Elizabeth Taylor, Stanley Kubrick to Scott Rudin, Harrison Ford to Jim Carrey to Eddie Murphy, and more.--From publisher description. nside cover: "To Don and Shirley-- Thanks for your love and support! Tommy, Nov. 2005" Contents: What I Do Is Produce -- Welcome to Showbiz -- Chasing the Electric Rabbit -- Where Issa No Stronga Lure -- Duke, the Kid, and the Colonel --- Pivoting on Divas and Lemmon -- Forget Cruise! Forget Penn! Get me Zeljko Ivanek! -- Eddie and Mel -- Other Than That, Mr. Belushi, How Was the Film? -- "We Don't Do Rural Movies": The Story of Witness -- Risks and Rewards: The Truman Show -- Dreaming in Black and White. Includes bibliographical references (p.227) and index (p.229).

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Feldman, Edward S., 1929- ., Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.

Publication Details

Author

Feldman, Edward S., Barton, Tom.

Edition

1st ed.

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

New York, NY Charleston, SC

Call No.

PN 1998.3 .F447 A3 2005

ISBN

9780312348014

LCCN

2005046596