What the Movies Made Me Do

by Susan Braudy

Overview

From the author of Who Killed Sal Mineo?: a wonderful and spirited novel—funny and candid and on the mark—that takes us inside the frenetic and glamorous world of big-time Hollywood movie-making. Susan Braudy, who was a production vice-president for one of the major studios, now reveals how a few cunning executives control the secret million-dollar, life-and-death decisions—and decide who can make movies and how much they will cost.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804153539
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/21/2015
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	233
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Susan Braudy's previous books are Between Marriage and Divorce and Who Killed Sal Mineo? She has frequently contributed to Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, and other periodicals. She has also worked as a creative executive for one of the major movie studios.  

Editorial Reviews

High-powered New York film exec Carol Young hits 40, ends a long-term love affair, scrambles desperately to salvage to the movie about Jesus she's always wanted to make, holds onto her job as the studio's first female creative vice president as it hangs by a thread, bails her surrogate-daughter secretary out of trouble with the law, and has a tender tryst with the sex symbol star she has a crush onall in about a week. She has brains and bravado, she cares more about the movies than the money she makes, and she finds that her life, at midpoint, is going along just fine. This book might have been as exhausting as Carol's life, if Braudy hadn't relieved the hardball politics of the film industry with scenes of emotion and some fine flashbacks, all in nicely spare prose that can be slick or sensitive. Pure pleasure. Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L., Va.

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