This is Basinger and Wasson’s and the AFI’s oral history of Hollywood, and it’s a fine one. But remember, as the man said, Nobody knows anything. Lisa Schwarzbaum, a former critic at ...

THR’s ranks the list of 100 best film books chosen by more than 300 Hollywood heavyweights. ... 2007 • Alfred A. Knopf • History 18 votes. During Hollywood’s Golden Age, ...

We came. We saw. We published. But no list is worth sending out into the world if it doesn’t provoke at least a little good-natured disagreement, and our ranking of the 50 best Hollywood books ...

What readers are saying: "I couldn't stop reading this book as it took you inside both Hollywood history and parts of the Civil Rights Movement. A wonderful, heartfelt novel." At the dawn of the new ...

For better or for worse, movies that cater to the moodiness, vulgarity, and ineffable sense of superiority of adolescents are ...

Matthew Specktor grew up the son of a famous Hollywood agent. In The Golden Hour he serves up family saga, cultural criticism, fictionalized biography, history and lament for a vanishing world.

Marc Wanamaker and Steven Bingen’s “Hollywood Behind the Lens” is a visual history of the film industry as drawn from the Bison Archives, a photographic collection focused on Hollywood ...

Spanning more than half a century and speckled with the caviar of famous names, this isn’t a tell-all, pity party or diatribe. Mixing things up with the brio of an expert bartender, Specktor serves an ...

The latest work of historical non-fiction from Meg Waite Clayton, 'Typewriter Beach,' looks at the hurdles women face in ...

Matthew Specktor grew up the son of a famous Hollywood agent. In The Golden Hour he serves up family saga, cultural criticism, fictionalized biography, history and lament for a vanishing world.

His mother, Katherine McGaffey, is one of those beautiful LA women who might've been a successful actress or model. But she's short on drive. What she has is high literary taste: When she and Fred ...