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Oct 3, 2008 · Linson gives readers a glimpse into a bizarre world where It’s good’ is the absolute worst thing you can say about a movie.” Entertainment Weekly Art Linson sings of Hollywood in a low, guttural, animal wail, alternately hysterical, biting, humiliating, and wise.” Sean Penn
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Jan 1, 2002 · Art Linson's riotous journey through the making of five major motion pictures. Whether he's trying to persuade an executive that Gwyneth Paltrow has enough chin to carry the lead in a movie, forcing an enraged Alec Baldwin to shave off his mountain-man beard, or sitting through an excruciating reading of a David Mamet script as Bob de Niro toys with the notion of heading up the cast, Art Linson gives us a brutally honest, funny, and comprehensive tour through the horrors of Hollywood, from ...
Art Linson has produced critically acclaimed movies in every decade since the seventies including Fight Club, Heat, The Untouchables , Fast Times at Ridgemont High , Into the Wild, and two time Oscar winner Melvin and Howard. Art is an award winning producer, author, screenwriter, and director.
The American Film Institute is grateful to Sir Paul Getty KBE and the Sir Paul Getty KBE Estate for their dedication to the art of the moving image and their support for the AFI Catalog of Feature Films and without whose support AFI would not have been able to achieve this historical landmark in this epic scholarly endeavor.
SIDELIGHTS: Art Linson has been producing films in Hollywood since the mid-1970s. Although he has had several moderately successful projects, including Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Fight Club , Linson may be best known for a pair of books he wrote about the less-glamourous side of the film business: A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Europe and What Just Happened?:
Feb 7, 1993 · In A Pound of Flesh, producer Art Linson takes us behind closed doors on a rare backstage tour through Hollywood. With amusing stories that recount his challenging experiences with a legion of players whose roster includes David Mamet, Robert De Niro, Jeff Katzenberg, Brian De Palma, Sean Penn, Ned Tanen, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, and Sean Connery, Unson sheds klieg lights on the mystery behind the moviemaking process.
Art Linson was born in Chicago and grew up in Hollywood. He has been producing movies for twenty-four years, and his credits include The Untouchables, Heat, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Fight Club, and Scrooged.
