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Now You Have a Friend in the Industry!
So you want to get into show business? In Hollywood, it's not what you know, but who you know that counts. Whether your dream is to become a Hollywood writer or find the perfect producer to buy your script, at your fingertips are the insider hints and secrets you need to get discovered and succeed in this ultracompetitive industry. Hollywood guru and screenwriter Skip Press introduces you to hundreds of producers, directors, and agents and tells you how to reach them—by mail, phone, fax, or e-mail. You'll learn how to:
·Market screenplays, novels, or short stories to the right people
·Tailor your proposal to the preferences of each producer, director, or agent
·Understand the real Hollywood and everything show business
·Find the best agent or manager
"Thoughtfully written, clearly laid out, and of great value to beginners and old-timers alike. This book combines fearless opinions and invaluable hard facts—both of which are hard to find in Hollywood."
—Gareth Wigan, co-vice chairman, Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
"An entertaining and valuable tool for anyone interested in show business."
—Paul Mason Sr., vice president of production, Viacom
"An invaluable resource for breaking into the movie and television business."
—Barbara Anne Hiser, Emmy-winning cable and network television producer
"An insightful guide to the intricate Hollywood network."
—Oliver Eberle, founder and CEO, ShowBIZData.com
"The bonus for readers of this book is that Skip Press is a good writer—accessible, clear, persuasive, motivating, and easy to understand."
—Jerry B. Jenkins, coauthor, the Left Behind series
Customer Reviews:
Should be better.......2004-04-29
There is some decent info, but the worst part is how outdated the numbers and addresses are! You go to call a company and they're gone! Same with addresses--I had many queries returned to me because the company was no longer there. So then, what's the point of the book if you can't get ahold of the people?
More "advice" from someone with no record........2003-10-19
The truth is that if you want to make it in Hollywood, you have to come to Hollywood. You can't phone it in, and producers don't have the time or the inclination to track down scripts... they are sent 100 a week to choose from. This book is worse advice than you would get in one night of hanging out at any bar in LA that real, credited writers go to. I mean, look at the other credits this writer has... "your modeling career"... what the heck sort of background does this give so that the writer can speak to script writing, being that he has no script sales (verified by using Studio System, the entertainment industry database) or movies to his credit? The advice in here is plain, common sense, not insightful... and what the other poster said about telling Black writers where to get the best fried chicken in LA is just the sort of stuff you get. He spends three pages detailing how many brads to bind scripts with... and if you actaully talk to any agent, the truth is they don't care. In short, this book is worthless, written by someone with no experience in the subject.
much ado about nothing.......2002-10-20
This book is mostly hype and little delivery. The "inside" information can largely be found on the net and/or in better-written books by screenwriters of prominence. The agent and producer listings are vague and of little help. The book tells you almost nothing about "what they want" and virtually nothing about "how to win them over." All in all, it's poorly written and verbose and could have been cut down to a third of its length. Some of it is shockingly inappropriate, such as recommending to African-American writers where they can get good fried chicken in LA. In sum, it's yet another add-water-and-stir screenwriting book by somebody long on self-aggrandizement and short on Hollywood experience. I also find it quite suspicious that twelve five-star reviews here on ... were posted within a three-day period. Yeah, right.
A terrific resource!.......2002-04-05
I love this book! Mr. Press has done a terrific job. I strongly recommend this book to anyone wanting to make a career as a screenwriter!
A Friend in the Industry.......2002-03-26
As a professional writer in South Africa on an award winning sitcom, amongst others, I have endured constant battles to even have my feature scripts read in Hollywood - to a large degree because of Tinsel Town's blinkered approach to writers who are not based in LA. It really is a business where WHO you know, far outweighs WHAT, and in this respect alone, Skip's book is an invaluable resource. Not only does it provide a wealth of interesting and useful information about the movie industry, it also includes a substantial list of contacts for those who feel they have, to the best of their abilities, mastered the craft of scriptwriting and are ready to start querying producers, agents and managers. Thanks to Skip's book, and his monthly newsletters, I am now repped by a WGA signatory agent and receive regular readings of scripts that before no-one would bother with. While I still haven't sold anything in Hollywood, my confidence has risen since purchasing this book and when I do sell, it'll be to a large degree due to Skip's assistance.
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American Domesticity: From How-To Manual to Hollywood Melodrama
Kathleen Anne McHugh
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From the cult of domesticity to the Semiotics of the Kitchen, housekeeping has been central to both constructing and critiquing the role of women in American society. Frequently domesticity's style has been to make invisible the labor that produces it, allowing woman to be asserted or argued about in universal terms that downplay race, class, and material relations. American Domesticity considers this relationship in representations of domesticity and domestic labor over the last two centuries in didactic, cinematic, and feminist texts. While the domestic is usually conceived of as the antithesis of the public, economical, and political, Kathleen McHugh demonstrates how domestic discourse established the terms within which the most crucial national issues--the market economy, universal white male suffrage, slavery, the construction of racial difference, consumerism, spectatorship, desire, and even feminism--were conceived, assimilated, and understood. Beginning in the nineteenth century, the book investigates the historical roots of domestic labors invisibility in widely circulated didactic housekeeping manuals written by Lydia Child, Catherine Beecher, Mary Pattison, and Christine Frederick. It then considers how pedagogical discourses became entertainment discourses, their focus shifting from the silent era of film to the twilight of the classical period. The book concludes with an examination of the return of a pedagogical impulse within feminist film production concerning domesticity, comparing it to the concurrent rise of feminist film theory in the academy. Looking at this wide range of print and film texts, McHugh traces the outlines of a discourse of domesticity that claims to be private and universal but instead brokers difference within the public sphere.
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19th Century Film Studies!.......2000-06-02
This book examines the discourse on domestic labor across the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on how-to manuals, classical Hollywood films, and more recent avant-garde works. The author provides an engaging, sophisticated and well-written history of how we have understood (or, more accurately, obscured) domestic labor as a key component of American national identity. By taking the 19th century into account, the author provides one of the more insightful analyses of American film melodrama and women's cinema. This book is crucial for anyone wanting to understand the role of gender in American modern culture and cinema.
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How Hollywood Works
Janet Wasko
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This is a book about the US motion picture industry - its structure and policies, its operations and practices. It looks at the processes that are involved in turning raw materials and labor into feature films. It describes the process of film production, distribution, exhibition and retail - a process that involves different markets where materials, labor and products are bought and sold. In other words, this is a book about how Hollywood works - as an industry.
How Hollywood Works:
- offers an up-to-date survey of the policies and structure of the US film industry
- looks at the relationship between the film industry and other media industries
- examines the role of the major studios and the other 'players' - including, law firms, talent agents, and trade unions and guilds
- provides access to hard-to-find statistical information on the industry
While many books describe the film production and marketing process, they usually do so from an industry perspective and few look at Hollywood critically from within a more general economic, political and social context. By offering just such a critique, Janet Wasko's text provides a timely and essential analysis of how Hollywood works for all students of film and media.
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- GREAT REVIEW BY Biff L. Peterson
- How to open doors for writers
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Freelance Writing for Hollywood: How to Pitch, Write and Sell Your Work
Scott Essman
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Seasoned freelance writer Scott Essman explains and guides you through the vast and varied world of entertainment writing.
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GREAT REVIEW BY Biff L. Peterson.......2005-08-19
I really liked Biff L. Peterson's scathing review of my book. It was quite entertaining, well written, and informative. Then I looked him up, to make sure it wasn't a pseudonym for one of the jealous journalists and craftspeople who need to lash out to feel better about themselves. Alas, I discovered that Mr. Peterson's co-wrote a book called "They Don't Wanna Wait: The Stars of Dawson's Creek." I had to laugh. He's calling ME a hack! Good luck in life, Mr. Peterson. I wish you the best. Keep up the good work. Hilarious, indeed.
How to open doors for writers.......2002-02-03
How to break into print? In competitive Hollywood?
Scott Essman shares the secrets of his success.
He gives writers great advice on freelancing
that is tried and true as well as truly creative.
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The Club Rules: Power, Money, Sex, and Fear : How It Works in Hollywood
Paul Rosenfield
Manufacturer: Little, Brown & Company
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Better Hollywood gossip.......2004-12-18
The Club, which controls Hollywood's show business, is a mingling of attorneys, agents, talents, studio chiefs and bankers.
'Most of them are white males, forty or older, Jewish for the most part, heterosexual for the most part, ususally fathers, of shorter than average height - and they tend tot go to bed early'. They all know each other.
Paul Rosenfield interviewed members of the Club in order to know what binds them together, why people are attracted to it, what is the overall human climate and who are the nasty characters.
The most interesting interviews are those with Al Pacino, Jim Aubrey, Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg and Frank Yablans. The others are more or less commonplaces or vulgarities.
Like everywhere else in the world 'power' binds the members together, for 'If you have no power, Hollywood is the most unforgiving town in the world.'
People try to get in the Club for six major reasons: money, ego, love, sex, status and - particularly - fear, because the reigning climate is anxiety, the scare of failure.
And 'the truly monstrous women in Hollywood are the star's wives ... They are the Greek chorus that speaks the truth, because they are protected by layers of Club agents, attorneys, managers, maids, masseurs ...'.
Paul Rosenfield gives us a fait portrait of some of the main characters in the world's greatest entertainment industry.
A book for filmfanatics.
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Title: The Club Rules - Power, Money, Sex and Fear - How It Works in Hollywood. (book reviews)
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Title: God and the red carpet: how does faith in Jesus enter the (moving) picture for Hollywood writer-producer David McFadzean?(Interview)
Author: Bob Massey
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This digital document is an article from Jet, published by Thomson Gale on November 27, 2006. The length of the article is 1146 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Under pressure: how Denzel Washington stays strong despite demands of Hollywood.(Cover story)
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- For Serious Musicians Only
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Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching Out*
Yngwie Malmsteen
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Matching folio to the album, includings 10 songs, featuring: Don't Let It End * Disciples Of Hell * I Am A Viking * I'll See The Light.
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For Serious Musicians Only.......2002-10-17
Unless you are prepared to extend yourself technically, don't bother. Yngwie plays with incredible feeling, spirit, and tone, and may master the notes but not get the underlying core of the piece.
Good luck!
Play like Yngwie.......2001-02-02
If you like Malmsteen's marching out album, you should get this book. It has the most complete tabs you'll ever find of Malmsteen the only problem with it is that you buy it hopping that you'll end up playing like Yingwie, and of course you don't, unless you practice enough. The only reason I don't give this book 5 stars, is because the frustration one gets, but anyway, if you like Malmsteen, you should get it.
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BASS EDITION, Authentic Transcriptions with Notes and Tablature
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Add a warm and fanciful touch to apparel, household items, wood, leather, other ink-absorbing materials with this delightful menagerie of carousel animals. 43 attractive transfer patterns depict flower-bedecked horses, giraffe, goat, elephant, rabbit, roosters, more. For use in embroidery, fabric painting, other crafts.
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This easy-to-read book distills three decades of research into 21 key ideas for managing and adapting to change. It is written for those who are experiencing change in their lives and organizations, and trying to understand the dynamics involved as well as how to cope.
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Great Book for Understanding Change.......2006-02-19
This is a great "first read" on dealing with and managing change. As a manager in a large company, I spend a lot of my time helping my managers and department adapt to a never-ending onslaught of changes that we are experiencing.
We have all read this book to get a basic understanding of how change is affecting us, how we tend to view change, and the dynamics of change play out. The book is easy and enjoable to read and really focuses on the individual, as opposed to the whole organization. I would highly recommend it if you are going through changes in your organization.
If You are Experiencing Change in Your Life.......2006-01-15
This book provides the best explanation of the dynamics of individual change and the importance of resilience of any of the dozen books I have read on this topic. Although the title says it is about change in organizations, it is also relevant for anyone going through change in any part of their life. It's very readable with good explanations and examples.
A Good Overview for the Individual.......2006-01-13
This book gives a good overview of the how change affects you and what you can do to adapt to various changes in your life. It's based on solid research and the authors know what they are talking about.
Table of Contents.......2004-05-04
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FOREWORD by Daryl R. Conner
PART 1: ADAPTING TO CHANGE
1. Here Comes More Change
2. Why Change is So Challenging
3. Bouncing Back with Resilience
4. What is Your Change Quota?
5. Regaining Control
6. Anticipation is a Double-Edged Sword
7. Get Ready for Resistance
8. Are You Type-D or Type-O?
PART 2: SEVEN FACETS OF RESILIENCE
9. The Resilience Characteristics
10. Positive World View
11. Positive Self-Concept
12. Focused Sense of Purpose
13. Flexible Thinking
14. Social Flexibility
15. Organizing Ambiguity
16. Proactive Experimentation
PART 3: ENHANCING RESILIENCE
17. Developing Balance
18. Building a Resilience Development Plan
19. Resilient Teams
20. Working in a Nimble Organization
21. Living the Resilient Life
APPENDICES: Resilience Resources
What's Inside.......2004-05-04
Based on three decades of research - -
1. Learn Why Change is So Challenging.
2. Increase Awareness of Your Change Quota.
3. Discover the 7 Facets of Resilience.
4. Learn to Adapt with Agility.
5. Build Resilient Teams.
6. Thrive in a Nimble Organization.
7. 50 Ways to Enhance Your Resilience Now.
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