What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line

What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line

Art Linson

Language: English

Pages: 224

ISBN: 0802143385

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


As a Hollywood film producer, Art Linson has had a hand in producing some of the most unforgettable films of the last half century--Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Untouchables, Fight Club--and has worked with some of America’s finest actors and directors. Dubbed by the Los Angeles Times “a breezy anatomy of ritual humiliation,” Art Linson’s Hollywood memoir What Just Happened? gives us a brutally honest, funny, and comprehensive tour through the horrors of Hollywood. To be released in 2008 as a feature film starring Robert De Niro and featuring appearances from Bruce Willis, Sean Penn, and John Turturro, among others, Grove Press’s reissue of Linson’s hysterical memoir will include a new foreword, the film’s script, and several black-and-white shots from the film.

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Appealed. 'Of course, we assumed you were going to fix those bits.' 'But it's a true story!' 'Who gives a shit if it's a true story?' And so on. Suffice it to say it was another wonderful Mamet script, at least that's my take, that never got made. The consolation prize is that he got paid a shitload of money. But for the producer, when a movie doesn't get made, there is nothing to show for the time and the ultimate defeat. Moreover, the failed results usually reveal the importance of getting.

Higher. You must convince the guy with the checkbook that he needs whatever soap you are selling. I'm not sure anyone actually needs to buy an idea for a movie. If you buy an idea, you have to pay to have the script written. Writers are expensive. In most instances the scripts are badly done and only a small percentage ever get filmed. Because of the high turnover factor, the executive who winds up buying the script probably won't even have his job by the time the wretched thing gets made and is.

The universe. 'Yes.' For some reason this detour threw David and everyone else in the room into the wrong spin. The rhythm of the pitch had been inexorably altered. David's spirit had darkened. Where were we? Should he start over? What were the rules? Finally, Tom took charge. 'All right then . . . let's continue.' 'Um, well, then they run into a bear,' David said quietly, '. . . and then they kill the bear.' It was all that he could muster. After a long, clumsy pause, we all stood up. Tom.

S T U N A H A N : Y O U k n o w a lot of people expected M a r k 'Cutback' Davis or B o b ' J u n g l e ' Gerard would take the honors this year. WHAT JUST HAPPENED? 101 J E F F SPICOLI: Those g u y s are FAGS!!! S T U N A H A N : T h a t ' s fantastic . . . Let m e ask y o u a q u e s t i o n . . . W h e n you get out there, do you ever fear for your life? J E F F SPICOLI: W e l l , Stu, I'll tell you, surfing is n o t a sport, it's a way of life . . . no hobby . . . it's a way of looking at.

Results, largely due, I believe, to an ill-conceived one-dimensional Bob Harper marketing campaign. Wait. Is there a producer still breathing who doesn't blast the poor marketing stiff for his failed movies? It's Producing 101 to blame somebody else. Frankly, with all of the time I've spent in this town, I'd like to think I'm above all that, but I'm not. That icy demeanor I spotted after Harper left the screening room that day turned out to be more than just cramps from his commissary lunch. Deep.

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