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Shelfari edited the description of Regional diversity in environmental attitudes, knowledge and policy: The Kentucky River Authority (CDC development paper) Sunday, August 9 2009.
In 1967, John Gregory Dunne asked for unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox. Miraculously, he got it. For one year Dunne went everywhere there was to go and talked to everyone worth talking to within the studio. He tracked every step of the creation of pictures like "Dr. Dolittle," "Planet of the Apes," and "The Boston Strangler." The result is a work of reportage that, thirty years later, may still be our most minutely observed and therefore most uproariously funny portrait of the motion picture business. Whether he is recounting a showdown between Fox's studio head and two suave shark-like agents, watching a producer's girlfriend steal a silver plate from a restaurant, or shielding his eyes against the glare of a Hollywood premiere where the guests include a chimp in a white tie and tails, Dunne captures his subject in all its showmanship, savvy, vulgarity, and hype. Not since F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West has anyone done Hollywood better. "Reads as racily as a novel...(Dunne) has a novelist's ear for speech and eye for revealing detail...Anyone who has tiptoed along those corridors of power is bound to say that Dunne's impressionism rings true."--Los Angeles Times
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Shelfari edited the contributors of Regional diversity in environmental attitudes, knowledge and policy: The Kentucky River Authority (CDC development paper) Sunday, August 9 2009.
- Added a contributor: John Gregory Dunne: (Primary Author)
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Shelfari edited the first sentence of Regional diversity in environmental attitudes, knowledge and policy: The Kentucky River Authority (CDC development paper) Thursday, July 16 2009.
- Shortly after two o'clock on the afternoon of May 16, 1967, Darryl F. Zanuck stepped out of an elevator on the eighteenth floor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
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