JFK, Nixon, Oliver Stone and me : an idealist's journey from Capitol Hill to Hollywood hell / Eric Hamburg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamburg, Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles.

Motion picture industry.

Stone, Oliver.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (459 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : PublicAffairs, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""JFK, Nixon, Oliver Stone and Me is the funny, thoughtful memoir of an accomplished former Congressional staffer who left D.C. for Hollywood and a job with Oliver Stone, hoping to help make politically""

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; In the Beginning; In the Senate; JFK 101; Why It Matters; Back to Congress; A Film Called JFK; The JFK Bill; Going to Hollywood; Journey to Ixtlan; Development Hell; Becoming a Hollywood Producer; Steve, Chris and the Beast; Larry Flynt, Maureen Dowd and Other Projects; The Bay of Pigs Thing; Research in Cuba; The First Draft; A Big Deal; Lawyers and Natural Born Killers; The Nixon Team, Starring Danny the Weasel; The Return of Sammy Glick; Finding Nixon; Lost in the O Zone; The Martin Luther King Project and JFK, Part 2

Researching NixonGoodbye Azita, Hello Annie; Shooting the Movie; Problems with MLK; Oliver Becomes Nixon; Visiting the Set; Strange Episodes; MLK, NFL, Nixon, Annie and Danny; MLK and NFL Revisited; Notes on Nixon; On the Cover of Newsweek; The Press Junket; Nixon Bombs; The Beginning of the End; Life After Nixon; Another Fiasco-Oliver's U-Turn; The End of Ixtlan; Good News and Bad News; Life After Oliver; Fast Forward-June 1999; The Oliver Zone; John Dean and the Pentagon Papers; Strange Encounters with Oliver; Final Cut-The Premiere; Postscript-The Bay of Pigs Thing Revisited; Coda

AppendixAcknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-283-28732-3

9786613287328

1-61039-037-7

OCLC:

297425796