The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up - Rilegato

Rensin, David

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ISBN 10: 0345442342 ISBN 13: 9780345442345

Casa editrice: Ballantine Books, 2003

Riassunto

A tell-all journey inside a talent agency mailroom traces sixty-five years of Hollywood history to recount the real stories behind how careers have been made--or destroyed--offering entertaining anecdotes and behind-the-scenes gossip about Barry Diller, David Geffen, Mike Ovitz, and other Hollywood insiders.

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Informazioni sull'autore

<b>David Rensin</b> is the coauthor of show business legend Bernie Brillstein’s widely lauded memoir, <i>Where Did I Go Right</i>, as well as Olympian Louis Zamperini’s World War II survival saga, <i>Devil At My Heels</i> and composer/performer Yanni’s memoir, <i>Yanni: In Words</i>. Rensin also co-wrote Tim Allen’s #1 bestseller <i>Don’t Stand Too Close To a Naked Man</i> and Allen’s follow-up bestseller,<i> I’m Not Really Here</i>. He has co-written bestsellers with Chris Rock, Jeff Foxworthy, and Garry Shandling, and co-authored a groundbreaking humorous sociology of men named Bob, called <i>The Bob Book</i>. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.

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It’s like something out of a Hollywood potboiler: start out in the mailroom, end up a mogul. Only for dozens of Hollywood’s brightest, it happens to be true. Some of the biggest names in entertainment—including David Geffen, Barry Diller, and Mike Ovitz—began as trainees in musty talent agency mailrooms. Now, in this fascinating new book, veteran Hollywood writer David Rensin travels behind the scenes and through sixty-five years of show business history to tell the real stories of the marvelous careers that began—and in some cases ended––in the mailroom.<br><br>Based on more than two hundred interviews, Rensin unfolds the never-before-told history of an American institution––in the voices of the people who lived it. Through seven decades of glamour and humiliation, lousy pay and incredible perks, killer egos and a kill-or-be-killed ethos, you’ll go where the trainees go, do what they must do to get ahead, and hear the best insider stories from the Hollywood everyone knows about but no one <i>really</i> knows. The kids in <i>The Mailroom</i> have done it all: from hanging out with Elvis to delivering a senior agent’s urine sample to the doctor; from pouring drinks for Sinatra to sending ice to Johnny Carson on the Nile; from crashing the Academy Awards ceremony to hoping to deliver more than just the mail to sexy actresses’ homes.<br><br><i>The Mailroom </i>reveals why Harvard MBAs fight to turn down secure six-digit corporate salaries to start work at a major agency for less than $400 a week; what it takes to appease impossible bosses, outsmart the competition, and “agent” the agents; and how a hungry, star-struck kid can become the next Geffen or Diller by sorting mail, eavesdropping on crucial conversations, and trying anything to get noticed. <br><br>Full of revealing stories and delicious dish, <i>The Mailroom </i>is not only a non-stop, engrossing read, but a crash course, taught by the experts, on how to succeed in Hollywood through hard work, shrewd manipulation, and a hell of a lot of nerve. <i>The Mailroom </i>is classic Hollywood—a vibrant and complex tapestry of dreams, desire, exploitation, power, and genuine talent. If you want to know who rules Hollywood and how they got their power, if you want to know how to start with nothing and get ahead in <i>any</i> business, this is the book you must read.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Ballantine Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0345442342
• ISBN 13: 9780345442345
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 439
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile