Based on his unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox, Dunne\'s classic work of Hollywood reportage may still be the most minutely detailed and uproariously funny work of its kind.
Reads as racily as a novel...(Dunne) has a novelist\'s ear for speech and eye for revealing detail...
Anyone who has tiptoed along those corridors of power is bound to say that Dunne\'s impressionism rings true.--Los Angeles Times.
Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West has anyone done Hollywood better.
Not since F.
Whether he is recounting a showdown between Fox\'s Studio head and two suave shark-like agents, watching a producer\'s girlfriend steal a silver plate from a restaurant, or shielding his eyes against the glare of a Hollywood premiere where the guests include a chimp in a white tie and tails, Dunne captures his subject in all its showmanship, savvy, vulgarity, and hype.
The result is a work of reportage that, thirty years later, may still be our most minutely observed and therefore most uproariously funny portrait of the motion picture business.
Dolittle, Planet of the Apes, and The Boston Strangler.
He tracked every step of the creation of pictures like Dr.
For one year Dunne went everywhere there was to go and talked to everyone worth talking to within the studio.
Miraculously, he got it.
In 1967, John Gregory Dunne asked for unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox.
At once an unblinking critique and unstinting celebration, The Studio captures every nuance of the picture business\'s showmanship, savvy, vulgarity, and hype.
Based on his unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox, Dunne\'s classic work of Hollywood reportage may still be the most minutely detailed and uproariously funny work of its kind
