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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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