Go behind the scenes with this star-studded guide to the movie industry, meet anxious actors and dastardly directors, get animated by an A-Z of cartoon capers and see if the groovy movie screen test gets you on the road to stardom.
An informative and amusing introduction to the subject. The book is well-illustrated and includes some great anecdotes about the movie industry and how it operates. A few minor criticisms. One of these is that the book focuses almost entirely on the US film industry and Hollywood with barely a mention of the British, European or Asian studios. Secondly, there is at least one error: Mae West and Busby Berkeley are certainly not the only movie figures to have given their names to other things. Nevertheless, a great little book guaranteed to entertain and interest....
Simpatico compendio di aneddoti e curiosità cinematografiche, con tanti quiz per mettere alla prova anche i più esperti. Peccato che arrivi solo fino agli anni '90.
Besides a bookworm, I am a cinephile. It has interesting facts I have never heard of (whaat? Humphrey Boggart was shorter than Ingrid Bergman?) but there are also a couple of errors (Emilio Estevez is Charlie Sheen's brother, not his cousin).