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Michael Ovitz Has A Memoir, But Will We Always Once more See A Great Hollywood Volume?

Heading to a volume party for screenwriter-novelist Tom Epperson'southward latest, a S American journalistic thriller chosen Roberto To The Dark Tower Came, I got to wondering: Will there ever be another keen Hollywood book? You lot know, the kind that makes you catch your breath, slap the beach chair, and gasp, "Did they really do that stuff?"

Mostly, they did—witness the photo of Robert Towne lounging in the sand with his naked Amazons, equally he did some sort of prep for Personal Best, in 1981. The snapshot is tucked in the eye of Peter Biskind's Like shooting fish in a barrel Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Curlicue Generation Saved Hollywood. Published in 1998, information technology was, for me, the last truly great motion picture business organisation book. Biskind dished shovel-loads of gossip within a cultural arc, as he told how film greats similar Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola and, of class, Towne, reached for the stars and fell back to globe. The story, entirely existent, was a tragedy. "This grouping of people started to make really interesting films, and and so just took a toboggan ride into the gutter. How the hell did that happen?" asks the writer-manager Leonard Schrader in a prefatory quote.

There have been some very good Hollywood books since. What But Happened? by Fine art Linson, Sleepless In Hollywood by Lynda Obst, Infamous Players past Peter Bart, and Biskind'south own Down And Muddy Pictures come to heed. But nothing has quite matched the bitchiness of Julia Phillips' You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again (1991), the penetration of William Goldman'due south Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983), the salty wisdom of Saul David's The Industry (1981), the self-examination of Steven Bach'due south Terminal Cut (1985), or the terrifying granularity of David McClintick's Indecent Exposure (1982).

In 2016, at that place was a boomlet for Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Bureau past James Andrew Miller. Just the book's underlying story, unlike Biskind's tale of sex-crazed, drug-soaked picture genius, ran common cold. In September, CAA's ex-master Michael Ovitz will follow with a memoir. But the title—Who Is Michael Ovitz?—doesn't scream blockbuster.

Over at the Movie University's Margaret Herrick library (halfway between abode and Epperson's launch), a shelf lined with four dozen new Hollywood books doesn't have much you would accept to the beach. Instead, they are mostly solid works that drill securely into cinematic silos, by and present. At that place'due south Mexican Melodrama by Elena Lahr-Vivaz; Hollywood Testify Trial: Hollywood, HUAC and the Birth of the Blacklist by Thomas Doherty; Sisters in th eastward Life: A History of Out Africa American Lesbian Media Making, edited past Yvonne Welbon and Alexandra Juhasz; and, of course, this yr'south tribute to the eternal Male child Wonder, Orson Welles In Focus, edited by James N. Gilmore and Sidney Gottlieb.

I can imagine a very proficient volume coming out of the #MeToo era—a story about the evils of abusive men and the comprehend-ups around them.

But fifty-fifty that doesn't promise a actually great book, a juicy read about flawed and brilliant gods and monsters, irresolute the way we call back and feel. Books similar that could simply be born at a time when movies actually mattered. When, equally Biskind wrote in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, "motion-picture show was no less than a secular faith." And it's simply not like that anymore.

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