Books by Peter Bart and Complete Book Reviews
Peter Bart, Author . Miramax $22.95 (194p) ISBN 978-1-4013-5190-8
Unless Bart, editor in chief of Variety and author of several books about the movie biz (The Gross; Shoot Out; etc.), plans to put out a companion volume of "Light Tales," the 13 interconnected stories in this entertaining, cutting...
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Peter Bart, Author Miramax Books $26.95 (325p) ISBN 978-1-4013-5216-5
Bart, editor-in-chief of Variety (PW's sister magazine) and former studio exec, smartly places 100 years of movies, plays, musicals and TV shows within their pop-culture context, while also illuminating their ongoing cultural effects. For example,...
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Peter Bart, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-688-08460-8
Here's a book for the film history shelves that belongs alongside Indecent Exposure , David McClintick's damning examination of Tinseltown politics and corruption. Readers may find this highly detailed expose difficult to digest, however, a result...
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Peter Bart, Author Anchor Books $11 (292p) ISBN 978-0-385-41892-8
Poor top-management appointments by MGM owner Kirk Kerkorian dealt the fatal blow to the declining, once magnificent studio. ``Readers may find this highly detailed expose difficult to digest'' because of its ``disjointed and unchronological''...
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Peter Bart, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-312-19894-7
In 1969, William Goldman penned The Season, the quintessential insider's guide to the triumphs and failures of one Broadway season--but no author has since managed to do the same for Hollywood. Who better to attempt it than Bart, a former studio...
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Peter Bart. Weinstein (Perseus, dist.), $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-60286-139-8
Former Paramount v-p and Variety editor-in-chief Bart (Shoot Out) takes readers on a wild ride through the years he spent at the struggling film studio from 1967 to 1975. He came aboard at the behest of Paramount's new chief of production, Robert "th
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Peter Bart, Author, Peter Guber, Joint Author . Putnam $25.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-399-14808-8
Writing in a direct, refreshing and honest style, Bart (Variety's editor-in-chief and a former v-p for production at Paramount) and Guber (the founder and head of Mandalay Entertainment and one-time production head at Columbia Pictures) offer an
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