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Veteran show-biz news hound Charles Fleming argues that the short, insanely foolish life of producer Don Simpson (Flashdance, Top Gun, Bad Boys) stands as a larger indictment of Hollywood, and it's hard to argue with him. For one thing, Simpson helped create Tom Cruise, Richard Gere, Will Smith, and Eddie Murphy, and his loud, high-concept, low-IQ school of filmmaking helped launch Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, and Bruce Willis to new heights (or depths). Others may have been responsible for 14 Top Ten pop tunes and 10 Oscar nominations, but nobody had thought to combine pop music and movies in a synergistic way. While Fleming concentrates on Simpson's own antics--car wrecks, career crackups, whacked-out drug and sex orgies, whimsical overspending on brain-dead blockbusters--he does make an excellent case that the entertainment industry as a whole is nutty and slutty. Even the more levelheaded stars who turn up in High Concept turn out to be appalling: Fleming documents the behavior that earned Demi Moore the Hollywood nickname "Gimme More."



1. High Concept
by Charles Fleming

2. Rebel Without a Crew : Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
by Robert Rodriguez

3. On Sunset Boulevard : The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
by Ed Sikov

4. All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger : The Shocking True Story of Troma Studios
by Lloyd Kaufman, James E. Gunn

5. Stanley Kubrick : A Biography
by Vincent Lobrutto

6. Gods of Death : Around the World, Behind Closed Doors, Operates an Ultra-Secret Business of Sex and Death : One Man Hunts the Truth About Snuff Films
by Yaron Svoray, Thomas Hughes (Contributor)

7. James Whale : A New World of Gods and Monsters
by James Curtis

8. Sayles on Sayles
by John Sayles, Gavin Smith

9. The Disney Version : The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney
by Richard Schickel

10. All His Jazz : The Life and Death of Bob Fosse
by Martin Gottfried

11. Monster : Living Off the Big Screen
by John Gregory Dunne

12. Shock Value : A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste
by John K. Waters

13. Steven Spielberg : A Biography
by Joseph McBride

14. Walt Disney : An American Original
by Bob Thomas

15. Leni Riefenstahl : A Memoir
by Leni Riefenstahl

16. Howard Hawks : The Grey Fox of Hollywood
by Todd McCarthy

17. Company of Heroes : My Life As an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company
by Harry, Jr Carey

18. Goldwyn : A Biography
by A. Scott Berg

19. Woody Allen on Woody Allen : In Conversation With Stig Bjorkman
by Woody Allen, Stig Bjorkman (Editor)

20. Weirdsville USA : The Obsessive Universe of David Lynch
by Paul A. Woods

21. Scorsese on Scorsese
by Martin Scorsese, et al

22. Stanley Kubrick : A Biography
by John Baxter

23. Fritz Lang : The Nature of the Beast
by Patrick McGilligan

24. A Biographical Dictionary of Film
by David Thomson

25. How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime
by Roger Corman, Jim Jerome (Contributor)

26. Kieslowski on Kieslowski
by Danusia Stok(Editor), et al

27. The Passion of David Lynch : Wild at Heart in Hollywood
by Martha P. Nochimson

28. Orson Welles : The Road to Xanadu
by Simon Callow

29. Reconstructing Woody : Art, Love, and Life in the Films of Woody Allen
by Mary P. Nichols

30. Foster Child : An Intimate Biography of Jodie Foster by Her Brother
by Buddy Foster, Leon Wagener

31. Rosebud : The Story of Orson Welles
by David Thomson

32. Disney's World : A Biography
by Leonard Mosley, Leonard Mosely

33. Gaffers, Grips, and Best Boys
by Eric Taub

34. 'If They Move... Kill 'Em!' : The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah
by David Weddle

35. Twentieth Century's Fox : Darryl F. Zanuck and the Culture of Hollywood
by George F. Custen

36. David Lean : A Biography
by Kevin Brownlow

37. Power to Burn : Michael Ovitz and the New Business of Show Business
by Stephen Singular

38. Dreaming Aloud : The Life and Films of James Cameron
by Christopher Heard, Kathryn A. Exner

39. Wake Me When It's Funny : How to Break into Show Business and Stay There
by Garry Marshall, et al

40. A Biographical Dictionary of Film
by David Thomson

41. Magic Hour
by Jack Cardiff, Martin Scorsese

42. An Open Book
by John Houston, John Huston

43. Bunuel
by John Baxter

44. A Talent for Trouble : The Life of Hollywood's Most Acclaimed Director, William Wyler
by Jan Herman

45. The Cinema of Martin Scorsese
by Lawrence S. Friedman, Lawwrence S. Friedman

46. Chuck Jones : A Flurry of Drawings (Portraits of American Genius, No 3)
by Hugh Kenner, Chuck Jones

47. John Ford
by Peter Bogdanovich

48. Woody Allen : A Biography
by Eric Lax

49. Dancing on the Ceiling : Stanley Donen and His Movies
by Stephen M. Silverman, Audrey Hepburn (Introduction)

50. Billy Wilder
by Bernard F. Dick, Bernard E. Dick

51. Rebel Without a Crew; Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7000 Became a Hollywood Player
by Robert Rodriguez

52. David Lean : A Biography
by Kevin Brownlow

53. The Fleischer Story
by Leslie E. Cabarga

54. The Magic Lantern : An Autobiography
by Ingmar Bergman, Joan Tate (Translator)

55. Alfred Hitchcock (Pocket Archives Series)
by Serge Kaganski

56. Lucio Fulci : Beyond the Gates
by Chas Balun, et al

57. Hollywood Trail Boss : Behind the Scenes of the Wild, Wild Western
by Burt Kennedy, Max Evans

58. Howard Hawks American Artist
by Jim Hillier(Editor), et al

59. Quentin Tarantino : The Cinema of Cool
by Jeff Dawson

60. The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini
by Tag Gallagher

61. Quentin Tarantino : Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)
by Quentin Tarantino, Gerald Peary (Editor)

62. Schrader on Schrader & Other Writings (Directors on Directors Series)
by Paul Schrader, Kevin Jackson (Editor)

63. Hanif Kureishi : Postcolonial Storyteller
by Kenneth C. Kaleta

64. Conversations With Fellini
by Costanzo Costantini(Editor), Sohrab Sorooshian (Translator)

65. Woody : Movies from Manhattan
by Julian Fox

66. Spielberg : The Man, the Movies, the Mythology
by Frank Sanello

67. Chaos As Usual : Conversations About Rainer Werner Fassbinder
by Juliane Lorenz(Editor), et al

68. Woody Allen at Work : The Photographs of Brian Hamill
by Brian Hamill, et al

69. George Cukor : A Double Life
by Patrick McGilligan

70. D.W. Griffith : An American Life
by Richard Schickel

71. Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema
by James Goodwin

72. Rosebud : The Story of Orson Welles
by David Thomson

73. The Films of Woody Allen (Cambridge Film Classics)
by Sam B. Girgus

74. Paik Video (Station Hill Arts Series)
by Edith Decker-Phillips, et al

75. Paul Verhoeven
by Rob Van Scheers, et al



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