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Ready when you are, Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Crowe / Jerry Ziesmer ; with an introduction by Cameron Crowe.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.Z54 A3 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ziesmer, Jerry, 1939-
- Series:
- Filmmakers series ; no. 69.
- Filmmakers series ; 69
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ziesmer, Jerry, 1939-.
- Ziesmer, Jerry.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- United States.
- Motion picture industry--United States--Employees--Biography.
- Local Subjects:
- Motion picture industry--United States--Employees--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Ready when you are, Mister Coppola, Mister Spielberg, Mister Crowe
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Jerry Ziesmer was an assistant director for over thirty years, helping to create countless films before his retirement in the mid-1990s. He has worked with some of Hollywood's biggest directors and its biggest stars. In this memoir, he recounts his time in Hollywood, including his role on the sets of Apocalypse Now, Close Encounters, and Jerry Maguire. Written with the craft and humor that made Jerry Ziesmer one of the most sought-after assistant directors in Hollywood, this book will be a treasure for students and fans of twentieth-century Hollywood.
- Contents:
- Tom Cruise and Jerry Maguire 1
- It Began in Milwaukee 11
- Hello, Dolly! 19
- Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon 23
- The Great White Hope 27
- Lost Horizon 42
- The Way We Were 48
- The Wrath of God 100
- Harry and Walter Go to New York 112
- Black Sunday 119
- Apocalypse Now: Part One 127
- Village II Scene 146
- Gambi and the Tiger Scene 167
- Unlikely Miracle Maker 182
- Apocalypse Now: Part Two 193
- The Saigon Hotel Room Scene 231
- The Briefing Scene 235
- Village I Scene 241
- The Playboy Bunny Show 244
- The Do Lung Bridge Scene 253
- The French Plantation Sequence 258
- Apocalypse Now: Part Three 266
- Straight Time 301
- Sylvester Stallone and Rocky II 305
- The Steven Spielberg Films 333
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind 333
- 1941 342
- What Ifs 356
- History of the World: Part I 359
- John Huston and Annie 361
- Al Pacino and Scarface 390
- Mel Gibson and The River 400
- Peter Bogdanovich 402
- The First and Only Mutiny in the History of Hollywood 407
- The Cameron Crowe Films 410
- Singles 415
- Tom Cruise 416
- The Premiere of Jerry Maguire 423.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0810836572
- OCLC:
- 42708197
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