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 ...

Matthew Specktor’s new book, “The Golden Hour,” is a history of L.A. and the film industry, as well as a biography of Specktor’s father, legendary talent agent Fred Specktor.

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.

From the struggle of working-class Angelenos, to the star-studded, escapist fantasy of celebrity, to the self-reflective nostalgia of old Hollywood, three new books by Southern California authors i… ...

McDougal’s 1998 book, The Last Mogul, Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood, was ranked No. 59 by The Hollywood Reporter on its October 2023 list of The 100 Greatest Film Books ...

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Find Your Next Book Thrillers N.Y.C. Literary Guide Nonfiction Summer Preview Advertisement Supported by Nonfiction Bruce Handy’s history of teen movies ranges from Andy Hardy and James Dean to ...

As journalist Bruce Handy recounts in his new book, “Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies,” by the time the weird (but still conventionally attractive) Ally ...