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...HOLLYWOOD HIT SPY KIDS Now he's the king of his own blockbuster franchise; 3D earned $111 million...
...Glenn Close's posterior on the set of Jagged Edge. You're no doubt also curious about Eszterhas' alleged death threat from Michael Ovitz, and Marlon Brando's feces collection, and Elizabeth Berkley's exhibitionism on the set of Showgirls. There's a large amount of celebrity dirt in Hollywood Animal, and much of it is rich, loamy, high-quality dirt. Go ahead. It's O.K. to roll around...
Just don't try to dig too deep. There may be a pretty jazzy 400-page book lurking somewhere inside Hollywood Animal, but Eszterhas vastly overestimates the reader's interest in the breakup of his first marriage, and in his various health problems, and in the superfine details of his wheelings and dealings and squealings with studio executives. Even worse, there's a fundamental lack of self-insight here. Eszterhas wants to spin himself as a Hollywood outsider, a self-righteous desperado who took the town for all it was worth and then rode off into the sunset (he moved...
What we have here is a sequel to Postcards from the Edge, Fisher's 1987 autobiographical debut novel about the emotional perils of growing up in Hollywood as the daughter of two big names (names like, say, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds). In each book Suzanne careers gamely into crisis--a drug addiction then, a bipolar crack-up now, not unlike the one Fisher suffered in 1997. This time she also has a concerned ex-husband who has left her for a man, and a beloved little daughter who may be starting to prefer the company...
...just-wrapped Sundance Film Festival will be coming soon to a cineplex near you. Among the independent films that got big distribution deals: Garden State (a comedy, set in New Jersey), Napoleon Dynamite (ditto, set in Idaho) and Open Water (a couple pursued by sharks). Hollywood will be paying close attention. A surprising number of directors have gone from quirky little Sundance successes to big-budget Hollywood blockbusters...