The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God!

The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God!
by Joe Eszterhas

The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God!
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Author: Joe Eszterhas
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-18
ISBN: 0312373848
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

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Book Review: A compelling insider's guide
Summary: 4 Stars

As a successful screenwriter, Eszterhas, whose films include Basic Instinct, Flashdance and Showgirls, certainly has the qualifications to write a screenwriter's guide to Hollywood, but while the book clearly (in a no holds barred style) presents his opinion of things, it also draws upon the opinions of countless other Hollywood insiders, past and present.

The Devil's Guide to Hollywood reads more like a quote book than anything else, with a series of one liners or very short anecdotes, around loosely organized themes. To many of these quotes and insider's tales Eszterhas has added his own two cents. As Hollywood's "bad boy" screenwriter, his opinion comes across loud and strong. You don't have to get very far to see how much he loathes Robert McKee or see that his feelings on William Goldman tend to run cold and hot.

Used to a more narrative structure in my books, the unconventional style did at first put me off, but the stories were compelling and I was soon drawn in. I've been known to dabble in the dark art of screenwriting from time to time myself, and Eszterhas's book was just the thing to make me think I really should do something with that unfinished screenplay I've got kicking around.

Eszterhas holds nothing back in this book, and so if you aren't easily offended, and aren't put off by the doom and gloom or nightmare stories of Hollywood screenwriters, you too might agree with Eszterhas that screenwriting is a pretty sweet gig for those who can hack it.

Summary of The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God!

?There?s just one hunk of funny anecdote after another, quotes from everyone who ever mattered in the movie biz, and the thing is jam-packed with screenwriterly advice.  Plus it?s hilariously funny, ribald, sexy and brilliant.??Liz Smith
 
In The Devil?s Guide to Hollywood, bestselling author and legendary bad-boy screenwriter Joe Eszterhas tells everything he knows about the industry, its players and screenwriting itself?from the first blank sheet of paper in the Olivetti to the size of the credit on the one-sheet.
 
Often practical and always entertaining, The Devil?s Guide to Hollywood distills everything one of Hollywood?s most accomplished screenwriters knows about the business, from writing advice to negotiation tricks, from the wisdom of past players to the feuds of current ones.  Eszterhas has selected his personal pantheon of the most loved and loathed players in the business and treats the reader to a treasure trove of stories, quotes and wisdom from those luminaries, who include William Goldman (loathes) and Zsa Zsa Gabor (loves).
 
The Devil?s Guide to Hollywood could only have been written by someone who loves the business as much as Eszterhas does?but who also has its number.
 
?Eszterhas delivers a dishy, catty mix of reminiscences and Hollywood trivia?his forte is skewering sycophants and phonies in this opinionated showcase of the underside of Hollywood life.??Publishers Weekly
 
 

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