Monster: Living Off the Big Screen by Dunne, John Gregory

Monster: Living Off the Big Screen (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375750243)

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Format: Paperback
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Monster: Living Off the Big Screen by Dunne, John Gregory

Monster: Living Off the Big Screen

$15.00
Monster: Living Off the Big Screen by Dunne, John Gregory

Monster: Living Off the Big Screen

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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In Hollywood, screenwriters are a curse to be borne, and beating up on them is an industry blood sport. But in this ferociously funny and accurate account of life on the Hollywood food chain, it's a screenwriter who gets the last murderous laugh. That may be because the writer is John Gregory Dunne, who has written screenplays, along with novels and non-fiction, for thirty years. In 1988 Dunne and his wife, Joan Didion, were asked to write a screenplay about the dark and complicated life of the late TV anchorwoman Jessica Savitch. Eight years and twenty-seven drafts later, this script was made into the fairy tale "Up Close and Personal" starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Detailing the meetings, rewrites, fights, firings, and distractions attendant to the making of a single picture, Monster illuminates the process with sagacity and raucous wit.

Author: John Gregory Dunne
ISBN-10: 037575024X
ISBN-13: 9780375750243
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 03/17/1998
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.18w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/21/1998 pg. 32
By John Gregory Dunne
By John Gregory Dunne
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John Gregory Dunne wrote six novels--Vegas; True Confessions; Dutch Shea, Jr.; The Red White and Blue; Playland; and Nothing Lost--and seven works of nonfiction, among which are the memoir-like Harp and two books that look at Hollywood, The Studio and Monster. Born in West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1932, he graduated from Princeton in 1954. He collaborated with his wife, the writer Joan Didion, on many screenplays, including Panic in Needle Park and True Confessions. John Gregory Dunne died in December 2003.

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