Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood - Rilegato

King, Tom

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ISBN 10: 0679457542 ISBN 13: 9780679457541

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 2000

Riassunto

Draws from extensive interviews to present a biography of the entertainment-industry billionaire and co-founder of DreamWorks SKG

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Informazioni sull?autore

<br><b>Tom King</b> has been a reporter at <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> since 1989 and has reported on the entertainment industry from the paper's Los Angeles bureau since 1991.

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ex, contentious, and blessed with the perfect-pitch ability to find the next big talent, David Geffen has shaped American popular culture for the last three decades. His dazzling career has included the roles of power agent, record-industry mogul, Broadway producer, and billionaire Hollywood studio founder. From the beginning, though, Geffen's many accomplishments have been shadowed by the ruthless single-mindedness with which he has pursued fame, power, and money. In <b>The Operator</b>, Tom King--the first writer to have been granted full access to Geffen and his circle of intimates--captures the real David Geffen and tells a great American story about success and the bargains made for it. <br><br>The extent of Geffen's accomplishments is extraordinary. As a manager in the 1960s, he made the deal for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to appear at Woodstock. He discovered 1970s superstars Jackson Browne and the Eagles and masterminded Bob Dylan's famed 1974 tour; Joni Mitchell, Geffen's ro

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0679457542
• ISBN 13: 9780679457541
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 670
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile