Description Praise for Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times ""Dennis McDougal is a rare Hollywood reporter: honest, fearless, nobody\'s fool. the most noteworthy trait of MCA was how it hid its power."" --The New York Times Book Review ""Over the years, I\'ve read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the Movie business, and this one is right at the top."" -- Michael Blowen, The Boston Globe. . .
That is part of the fascination of Dennis McDougal\'s wonderful book."" --The Economist ""Thoroughly reported and engrossing .
Times Dynasty ""A great freeway pileup--part biography, part dysfunctional family chronicle, and part institutional and urban history, with generous dollops of scandal and gossip."" -- Hendrick Hertzberg, The New Yorker ""McDougal has managed to scale the high walls that have long protected the Chandler clan and returned with wicked tales told by angry ex-wives and jealous siblings."" --The Washington Post Praise for The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood ""Real glamour needs a dark side.
McDougal for pointers but worry that he will end up in a tin drum off the coast of New Jersey."" -- Patrick McGilligan, author of Jack\'s Life and Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light Praise for Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.
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I always read Mr.
This is unvarnished Jack for Jack-lovers and Jack-skeptics but, also, for anyone interested in the state of American culture and celebrity.
Description Praise for Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times ""Dennis McDougal is a rare Hollywood reporter: honest, fearless, nobody\'s fool
