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What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line (Paperback)

by Art Linson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; New edition edition (1 Sep 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747562059
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747562054
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.2 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 205,880 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Peter Biskind

'Wickedly funny ... it's the best users' manual to Hollywood I know.'


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'Linson sings of Hollywood in a low gutteral animal wail, alternately hysterical, biting, humiliating, and wise'
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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 19 Jul 2003
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This review is from: What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Frontline (Paperback)
It looked so promising! Humour, inside stories, and whining from Hollywood's finest - NOT. For some reason the author has adopted a very strained framework of 'therapy' to try and string completely detached anecdotes together, and you can really hear it creaking at the start of each chapter. The stories aren't funny (I smiled once or twice), and the people are horrible, but not horrible enough to be particularly interesting. Even more disappointing is that none of the anecdotes seem to relate to any *really* famous people or films, so while you are getting an insider's view, you can't easily compare it with the 'outsider's view' (that is, as a cinemagoer).
Mercifully, it's also very short - you quickly realise that the print is quite large, and there's rather a lot of 'white space'. I got through it in about 2 hours.
Summary? Like candyfloss - all sweet promise and no satisfaction.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Good fun, 25 Jan 2005
By J. E. Davidson (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line (Hardcover)
Unlike the other reviewers I enjoyed this book - however, do I understand why they were disappointed.

The book lacks any real structure - it is a bit of ramble around events that occurred while producing The Edge, Great Expectations and Fight Club. The book is not long on substance either - you do not learn a lot about Hollywood or even Art Linson.

However, if you are familiar with the films and are comfortable with the fact that much of the book is written as dialogue then there is much to enjoy. There were many moments that made me laugh and/or smile.

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3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 2 April 2004
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This review is from: What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Frontline (Paperback)
Given the rich opportunities to satirize Hollywood this was an extremely tame effort. The average Sunday newspaper has more in the way of tinseltown gossip, scandal and misbehaviour. Nor does Linson make this (admittedly short) book an easy read. The style is that of a whinging middle management type who has cornered you in a lounge bar on a saturday night. The dreadful characters he has to deal with, how little people appreciate his talents and hard work, why aren't things as much fun as when he was twenty? If that's the sort of conversation you enjoy you might like this anodyne paddle through the shallowest of Hollywood's depths.
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