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La Mafia à Hollywood

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Pour la première fois, un ouvrage dévoile les liaisons dangereuses entre l'industrie du cinéma américain et la Mafia.
Dès la Prohibition, les gangs rackettent aussi bien les exploitants de salles que les studios. Après une résistance toute symbolique, les grands Moguls accueillent à bras ouverts les Al Capone, Lucky Luciano ou plus tard Sam Giancana dans la jet set hollywoodienne. Ainsi débute une fascination réciproque, qui va influencer le film « mafieux » nourri aux meilleures sources, de Scarface au Parrain.
De Joe Kennedy, le père de JFK, amant de Gloria Swanson et propriétaire du studio RKO, aux stars du grand écran, ce livre révèle les amitiés des « parrains », qui s'aventurent parfois dans la production. On y apprend bien des « secrets de famille », tels que le meurtre par Lana Turner de son gangster d’amant ou le financement par une famille mafieuse du premier grand succès du porno, Gorge profonde…
On croisera ici des acteurs dont la carrière a été soutenue par la Mafia : Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin ou Steven Seagal. Mais aussi des stars mêlées, malgré elles, à des agissements frauduleux, comme Kim Novak, maîtresse de Sammy Davis Jr, ou Marilyn Monroe surveillée par le FBI.
Dans les années 1970 et 1980, plusieurs studios comme Warner ou Universal continuent à entretenir des liens avec la Mafia. Et, dans les années 1990, le financier Giancarlo Parretti rachète la MGM avec des fonds d’origine mafieuse et l’aide du Crédit lyonnais…
Désormais plus discrète, la Mafia reste cinéphile !

398 pages, broché

Published January 12, 2012

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Tim Adler

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Tim Adler is an author and journalist who has written three nonfiction books for publishers including Bloomsbury.

The Week said that Tim writes “with brio” while the Daily Mail has described his work as “dazzling” while The Sunday Times called it “compulsively readable”.

He is a former commissioning editor on The Daily Telegraph, who has also written for the Financial Times and The Times.

Tim has written four thrillers, including his debut SLOW BLEED, which ranked #1 on the Kindle medical thriller chart, and HOLD STILL, which bestselling crime author Peter James said, “hooked me from the beginning”.

He is former London editor of Hollywood entertainment news website Deadline and, more recently, the website he now edits was named as a top blog covering the coronavirus pandemic by journalist trade magazine Press Gazette alongside the BBC, Guardian and the Telegraph.

In his spare time, Tim enjoys playing bridge, jogging, yoga and trying to gain the upper hand in his running battle with his pet chihuahua.

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October 11, 2020
Ive tried to read this 4 times now over the space of 10 years. Its too wordy and sporadic, hence why I never finish it. It jumps between times and people so fast that its just not great to follow. Im sure if your fascinated by this you will bear with and fully read but my days I just cba to follow it. It is too jumpy and there for not enjoyable!
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April 9, 2022
Sucks, only read it cause of history class
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61 reviews4 followers
August 5, 2021
Acojonante, apabullante, despampanante. Tim Adler efectúa un gran barrido desde los años 30's hasta principios del nuevo siglo (década del 2000's) contando las conexiones del crimen organizado con Hollywood y el sistema de estudios. Comaprecen conocidos gángsters, magnates de Hollywood, actores...luces y sombras tras las bambalinas. Gran profusión de datos y nombres, pero ameno y con empaque. Muy recomendable.
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August 6, 2016
I have always been fascinated by the American mafia and gangsters and this book covers their involvement in the movie industry in the thirties up to present times . Very interesting, although maybe not entirely accurate.
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August 8, 2011
This was like reading News of the World - a lot of supposition and not much fact!!!!!!!
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91 reviews11 followers
February 29, 2012
excellent livre sur l'impact de la mafia sur l'industrie du cinéma de la création d'hollywood jusqu'à maintenant le recommande à tous les fans de cette époque
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April 26, 2018
Fairy tales told in the first person to make them more interesting and compensate for the dry writing. And because case 1, 2 and 3, Adler concludes: Hollywood IS the Mafia.
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