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In 1967, John Gregory Dunne asked for unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox. Miraculously, he got it. For one year Dunne went 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. Dolittle," "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 picture 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 from a restaurant, or shielding his eyes against the glare of a Hollywood premiere where the guests include a chimp in a white tie and tails, Dunne captures his subject in all its showmanship, savvy, vulgarity, and hype. Not since F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West has anyone done Hollywood better. "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 Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Reprint edition (April 14, 1998)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0375700080


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 88


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.1 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.19 x 0.62 x 8 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #425,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #30 in Movie Industry #164 in Mystery Writing Reference #724 in Movie History & Criticism


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    • Hysterical
If you like dry humor. Black comedy. If you know a little bit about the inter workings of Hollywood, this book is so damn funny. I have been letting all my friends borrow it.
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2019 by Blaine Fuller
    • The way it is, and was
I doubt the marketing and production of studio pictures has changed much since this book was first released in 1969. But the volume of studio pictures has dropped off substantially, in favor of independent films, privately financed. This is a good read, objective and fact-based, but a bit disappointing in the end when it just stops abruptly. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2020 by Robert J. Stone
    • Rather Boring
I expected more from this book. I felt the author barely engaged with the process and never solidified a point of view. The story just seems to wander aimlessly between various conference and hotel rooms. Maybe that was the point; just a ‘sitting in a chair in the corner’ viewpoint with no conclusions drawn. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2022 by A Lady
    • Outstanding Story of How a Movie Studio Functions
One of the best ever depictions of a movie studio in action. The author was given full access to what went on at Twentieth Century Fox, and uses his literary skills to fine advantage to give a full view of the successes and (especially) the failures of those in charge. Written with great insight and humor. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2015 by Larry Gevirtz
    • So good
One of those books I didn't want to end, so engaging is the writing. I recommend it highly for anyone who loves Hollywood logistics and great, acerbic commentary.
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2019 by Julie
    • Vey interesting well-written book
I thought I would read this after reading several of Joan Didion' s books. I' m glad I did. To discover the concern and attention that so many, well-paid adults demonstrate over the profit potential for movies meant for children isn't surprising, but somehow reinforces the power of the "almighty dollar" over everything. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2022 by Benjamin G. Paskus
    • Death of an Art Form
I loved the Doctor Dolittle books when I was a child, but I had no desire to see the Hollywood musical based on it when it came out in 1967. Although I'd loved movie musicals like Annie Get Your Gun and Singin' in the Rain even before I'd started reading Doctor Dolittle, books, I knew any I saw in 1967 would be, somehow, lifeless. Why did the Hollywood musical more or less die out as an art form after 1960? That question is one of the things The Studio touches on, although it doesn't focus on it. It's more about the business end of Hollywood, and its concentration on the Doctor Dolittle musical seems fortuitous-- it's just what happened to be on the table when Dunne got the ok to write the book. But I wish it could have been more about the artistic reasons for the Doctor Dolittle musical's failure, because that's more important than its business failure. It would be an oversimplified cliche to say that the Hollywood musical failed as art because it became more of a business, but there may be some truth in it. Dunne's book certainly doesn't unearth much artistic motivation, although he doesn't seem to be looking for it. It's a good, deadpan satire of Hollywood businessmen, but it could have been more. Not that the businessmen were all that bad. Dunne seems to have rather liked most of them, and, compared to today's industry, there was a kind of innocent generosity in their willingness to spend 18 million dollars on a movie about a man who loved animals so much he learned to talk with them. When an animal appears in a movie today, chances are that the plot calls for people to kill it in some nasty way, or vice versa. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2013 by A Customer
    • Fascinating story
An nteresting story full of detail and name-dropping, very similar to the style of brother Dominick, which I also like.
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2013 by Gma Sara

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