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How I Learned to Love the Blockbuster and Fear the Bomb
Miramax
June 2007
On Sale: June 6, 2007
384 pages
ISBN: 1401360289
EAN: 9781401360283
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Non-Fiction
The formula for Hollywood success has long baffled even
its greatest visionaries. For every blockbuster there are
countless flops. Directors, producers, and actors who
achieve great success with one film often suffer abject
humiliation on the next. After all, George Lucas may have
created the Star Wars franchise, but he also created
Howard the Duck. Now Peter Bart, the editor-in-chief
of Variety, co-host of Sunday Morning
Shootout, and the former studio executive whose hits
include The Godfather and Rosemary’s Baby,
presents a fascinating look at the hits that sizzle and the
flops that fizzle. In Boffo, Peter Bart reveals
the backlot secrets behind the biggest hits and misses in
both film and television: how movies with the biggest stars
and budgets turned out to be bombs and how unknowns with no
studio support overcame great adversity to make cinematic
history. In so doing, Bart tells the history of pop culture
itself. He looks at the mega successes of today, from The
Lord of the Rings trilogy to the CSI phenomenon,
the smashes of the past including Easy Rider, American
Graffiti, and All in the Family, as well as the
progenitor of all blockbusters, Birth of a Nation.
Bart offers his signature straight-shooting analysis of the
silk purses and the sows’ ears of the entertainment world.
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