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  • Hurricane Billy
    Nat Segaloff
    Originally published in 1990, Hurricane Billy: The Stormy Life and Films of William Friedkin is at last available again with a new foreword and extensive afterword written in assessment of William Friedkin’s career following his 2023 death. Biographer Nat Segaloff draws upon his fifty-year friendship with the controversial director of The French Connection, The Exorcist, To Liv...
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    33,09 €

  • The Naughty Bits
    Nat Segaloff
    Between 1934 and 1968, no Hollywood studio could make a movie without the permission of and a seal of approval from the Production Code Administration. The Production Code was Hollywood’s official censor. Screenplays, books, plays, costumes and even story ideas and songs had to be okayed by the Code before they could be filmed, and the Code monitored every stage of the producti...
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    23,45 €

  • More Fire! The Building of The Towering Inferno
    Nat Segaloff
    It wasn’t the first or last of the disaster pictures, but it was the best of them all, yet its producer had no way of knowing that his career would never again reach those heights.The Towering Inferno (1974) was the crowning achievement of über-producer Irwin Allen, the self-proclaimed 'Master of disaster.' Crafted from two best-selling books and with a budget-busting cast head...
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    27,85 €

  • The Town That Said No
    Nat Segaloff
    They were enemies who fought on the same side. Rance McWinston is a bestselling mystery writer who travels to war-torn Afghanistan to find a new subject to write about. Leonid Bychkov is an embittered former Russian Forces fighter who has a personal score to settle. When a horrific event takes place on the battlefield, the lines are drawn between these two determined men and th...
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    27,64 €

  • The Mazursky Method
    Nat Segaloff
    He was the most observant, sympathetic, and successful filmmaker about the American middle class. He found the humor and drama in their struggle to cope with the massive social changes of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. In Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Blume in Love, Down & Out in Beverly Hills, Harry & Tonto, and An Unmarried Woman, among other now-classics, he poked fun at--while still l...
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    30,20 €

  • Big Bad John
    Nat Segaloff
     'John comes on a bit strong at first; he plays the Hemingway bit. I think he’s very clever. I think he’s very talented and kind of refreshing.'- Sean Connery 'Francis [Coppola][ couldn’t tell a story like John. George [Lucas][ is a great storyteller; he couldn’t tell a story like John. None of us.'- Steven Spielberg 'I think he likes the grandiose. He liked something that. . ....
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    26,87 €

  • Hollywood and Venal
    Nat Segaloff
    “Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the realtinsel underneath.” – Oscar Levant  Sometimes fiction is the best way to tell the truth. In this, his first collection of short stories, Nat Segaloff (Final Cuts, Guarding Gable, Mr. Huston/Mr. North) reveals the truth behind some of Hollywood’s biggest scandals, agendas, and confidences.     First published by repo...
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    30,98 €

  • Arthur Penn
    Nat Segaloff
    First published to acclaim in 2011, Arthur Penn: American Director is the first biography of the acclaimed director of The Miracle Worker, Little Big Man, Alice’s Restaurant, The Chase, Mickey One, The Missouri Breaks, and, of course, the motion picture that fired the first shot in the Film Revolution, Bonnie and Clyde.Born in Philadelphia to immigrant parents in 1922 and raise...
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    31,80 €

  • Get That Cat Outa Here
    Ben Ohmart / Nat Segaloff
    Citizen Kane and Titanic might have an artistic and popular monopoly on greatness, but when it comes to sitting down to a strictly enjoyable film, give me The North Avenue Irregulars any day.What you hold in your hand now is a collection of behind the scenes essays dealing with the unheralded wonders of my youth. I am nobody, but I do have a publishing company, so please excuse...
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    22,26 €

  • Guarding Gable
    Nat Segaloff
    Guarding Gable starts with an actual event in the life of the screen’s number one star and becomes a story worthy of a Hollywood movie.It’s 1942 and World War Two is just beginning. Beloved actress Carole Lombard is killed in a plane crash while returning from a bond-selling tour and her devoted husband, Clark Gable, is beyond consolation. Depressed to the point of suicide, he ...
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    21,80 €

  • Guiding Royalty
    Nat Segaloff / Yoram Ben-Ami
    Imagine you’re a young movie producer trying to jump from small pictures into the international film market. Imagine a novice German director comes to you with a lousy script and barely enough money to pick up lunch. Now imagine that, for reasons that boggle your mind, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton announce that they want to star in your movie.This is the outlandish, funn...
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    22,35 €

  • Screen Saver
    Nat Segaloff
    How do the most glamorous people in Hollywood behave when they’re not in Hollywood? They run the gamut, and Nat Segaloff followed them for twenty-five years. He started in the staid and stuffy (but also politically tinged and rapidly evolving) city of Boston, Massachusetts, then picked up the trail in Los Angeles. In Screen Saver: Private Stories of Public Hollywood, he writes ...
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    32,04 €

  • Mr. Huston/ Mr. North
    Nat Segaloff
    'Bogie always said that, if there’s an impossible location, you can be sure John will find it. John’s authentic. He was about something.' - Lauren Bacall'He was a landmark in film history, a great friend, and I’ll miss him very much.' - Michael Caine'There is nothing more fascinating-and more fun-than making movies. Besides, I think I’m finally getting the hang of it.' - John H...
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    22,21 €

  • Stirling Silliphant
    Nat Segaloff
    During the 1950s and 1960s it seemed that every TV show was written by Stirling Silliphant. His scripts for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Tightrope, Alcoa-Goodyear Theatre, Perry Mason, and, of course, Naked City and Route 66, made him Hollywood’s most produced writer. Later he dominated the disaster film cycle with The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, brought martial ...
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    30,08 €

  • Final Cuts
    Nat Segaloff
    Critic-producer Nat Segaloff was granted access to private papers, production records, never-before-published interviews, and specialized archives in reconstructing the colorful, touching, and sometimes scandalous stories behind the making of the last films of some of Hollywood’s top directors. Winningly readable and yet meticulously researched, its substantial entries range fr...
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    34,08 €