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Dunne, John Gregory Monster : Living Off the Big Screen
Random House February 11, 19 0-679-45579-5 / 9780679455790 Hardcover Fine/Fine
This is a story of a screenplay, how it was initially conceived, "developed " by a number of studio heads and producers, and finally transformed into a movie even its writers admit is mediocre. In 1988, John Gregory Dunne and his wife Joan Didion began work on a film script based on the tragic life o f anchorwoman Jessica Savitch. Over the next eight years, studio executives coaxed them to transform it into Up Close and Personal, a toothless star v ehicle for Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer. In his account of the scri pt's metamorphosis, Dunne also mentions other potential masterpieces of exc ess that he and Didion worked on, including Dharma Blue, an aborted Jerry B ruckheimer-Don Simpson movie about UFOs and Ultimatum, a nuclear thriller t hat was abandoned after its studio spent $3 million on script development! Dunne makes no bones about being in show biz for the money--his film work f inanced his heart surgery, legal costs, and vacations in Honolulu. Still, t his account of a screenplay's devolution unmasks an industry spoiled rotten by wealth and power.
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Dunne, John Gregory The Studio
Vintage April 14, 1998 0-375-70008-0 / 9780375700088 Paperback Near Fine
In 1967, John Gregory Dunne asked for unlimited access to the inner working s of Twentieth Century Fox. Miraculously, he got it. For one year Dunne wen t everywhere there was to go and talked to everyone worth talking to within the studio. He tracked every step of the creation of pictures like "Dr. Do little," "Planet of the Apes," and "The Boston Strangler." The result is a work of reportage that, thirty years later, may still be our most minutely observed and therefore most uproariously funny portrait of the motion pictu re business. Whether he is recounting a showdown between Fox's studio head and two suave shark-like agents, watching a producer's girlfriend steal a silver plate f rom a restaurant, or shielding his eyes against the glare of a Hollywood pr emiere where the guests include a chimp in a white tie and tails, Dunne cap tures his subject in all its showmanship, savvy, vulgarity, and hype. Not s ince F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West has anyone done Hollywood bette r. "Reads as racily as a novel...(Dunne) has a novelist's ear for speech and eye for revealing detail...Anyone who has tiptoed along those corridors of power is bound to say that Dunne's impressionism rings true."--Los Angeles Times
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Dunne, John Gregory True Confessions
Pocket October 2, 1981 0-671-42228-6 / 9780671422288 Paperback Good
In 1940s Los Angeles, an unidentified murder victim is found bisected in a shadowy lot. A catchy nickname is given her in jest-"The Virgin Tramp"-and suddenly a "nice little homicide that would have drifted off the front page s in a couple of days" becomes a storm center. Two brothers, Tom and Des Spellacy, are at the heart of this powerful novel of Irish-Catholic life in Southern California just after World War II. Pla yed in the film version by Robert Duvall and Robert De Niro respectively, T om is a homicide detective and Des is a priest on the rise within the Churc h. The murder investigation provides the background against which are playe d the ever changing loyalties of the two brothers. Theirs is a world of fav ors and fixes, power and promises, inhabited by priests and pimps, cops and contractors, boxers and jockeys and lesbian fight promoters and lawyers wh o know how to put the fix in. A fast-paced and often hilarious classic of contemporary fiction, True Confessions is about a crime that has no solutions, only victims. More important, it is about the complex relationship between Tom and Des Spellacy, each tainted with the guilt and hostility that separate brothers.
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