Screen Saver Too: Hollywood Strikes Back

by Nat Segaloff

In his previous exposé, Screen Private Stories of Public Hollywood (Bear Manor Media, 2016), former movie publicist and film critic Nat Segaloff wrote about what visiting celebrities did when they thought nobody was watching. Here, in Screen Saver Hollywood Strikes Back, Nat pries the lid off of corporate show business to reveal secrets that even the biggest stars don’t know. He also drops more Meet Max von Sydow, the Singing Exorcist! Learn the twisted management style of Group W, the company that created Evening Magazine and PM Magazine! Find out how the studios neutralize film critics and nosey interviewers! Have a toga party with with denizens of the movie Animal House! Read the only book to contain interviews with both Butterfly McQueen and Linda Lovelace! About the Nat Segaloff is a movie publicist who crossed the professional street to become a film critic and journalist—a move that gave him insight into the ways of Hollywood but made him an infidel to the studios he used to work for. His previous BearManor titles include Final The Last Films of 50 Great Directors, Stirling The Fingers of God, and Mr. Huston/Mr. Life, Death, and Making John Huston’s Last Film. His next project is the tell-all story of Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop.

172 pages, Paperback

Published October 8, 2017

About the author

Nat Segaloff is a writer-producer-journalist. He covered the film industry for The Boston Herald, but has also variously been a studio publicist (Fox, UA, Columbia), college teacher (Boston University, Boston College), and broadcaster (Group W, CBS, Storer). He is the author of twenty books including Hurricane Billy: The Stormy Life and Films of William Friedkin, Arthur Penn: American Director and Final Cuts: The Last Films of 50 Great Directors in addition to career monographs on Stirling Silliphant, Walon Green, Paul Mazursky and John Milius. His writing has appeared in such varied periodicals as Film Comment, Written By, International Documentary, Animation Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Time Out (US), MacWorld and American Movie Classics Magazine. He was also senior reviewer for AudiobookCafe.com and contributing writer to Moving Pictures magazine.

In 1996 he formed the multi-media production company Alien Voices with actors Leonard Nimoy and actor John de Lancie and produced five best-selling, fully dramatized audio plays for Simon & Schuster: The Time Machine, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Lost World, The Invisible Man and The First Men in the Moon, all of which feature Star Trek casts.

Reviews

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Former movie publicist/film critic Nat Segaloff follows up his memoir with this delightful and often provocative collection of anecdotes of the various movie people he's known or interviewed over the years, from Max von Sydow to Butterfly McQueen.