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JFK, Nixon, Oliver Stone and me : an idealist's journey from Capitol Hill to Hollywood hell / Eric Hamburg.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.S76 H36 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamburg, Eric.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stone, Oliver.
- Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles.
- Motion picture industry.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 305 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Public Affairs, [2002]
- Summary:
- This revealing insider's look at Hollywood is the thoughtful memoir of a former Congressional aide who left D.C. for Hollywood and a job with Oliver Stone, one of Hollywood's most notoriously difficult directors. Hoping to make politically engaged films and make a difference, the author found himself in a dysfunctional universe ruled by greed, paranoia, narcissism, alcohol, and drugs. of photos.
- Contents:
- In the Beginning 1
- In the Senate 5
- JFK 101 15
- Why It Matters 19
- Back to Congress 25
- A Film Called JFK 32
- The JFK Bill 39
- Going to Hollywood 44
- Journey to Ixtlan 48
- Development Hell 55
- Becoming a Hollywood Producer 64
- Steve, Chris and the Beast 70
- Larry Flynt, Maureen Dowd and Other Projects 74
- The Bay of Pigs Thing 79
- Research in Cuba 82
- The First Draft 87
- A Big Deal 89
- Lawyers and Natural Born Killers 92
- The Nixon Team, Starring Danny the Weasel 99
- The Return of Sammy Glick 106
- Finding Nixon 117
- Lost in the O Zone 120
- The Martin Luther King Project and JFK, Part 2 133
- Researching Nixon 139
- Goodbye Azita, Hello Annie 159
- Shooting the Movie 162
- Problems with MLK 168
- Oliver Becomes Nixon 171
- Visiting the Set 173
- Strange Episodes 180
- MLK, NFL, Nixon, Annie and Danny 186
- MLK and NFL Revisited 193
- Notes on Nixon 196
- On the Cover of Newsweek 203
- The Press Junket 206
- Nixon Bombs 208
- The Beginning of the End 211
- Life After Nixon 213
- Another Fiasco
- Oliver's U-Turn 218
- The End of Ixtlan 222
- Good News and Bad News 225
- Life After Oliver 229
- Fast Forward
- June 1999 234
- The Oliver Zone 240
- John Dean and the Pentagon Papers 248
- Strange Encounters with Oliver 252
- Final Cut
- The Premiere 259
- Postscript
- The Bay of Pigs Thing Revisited 265.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1586480294
- OCLC:
- 49618589
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