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Have you ever wondered what a Hollywood movie producer actually does? 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 ...

Linson's book is essentially a collection of anecdotes collected from his many years of working as a producer in Hollywood. The book opens while Linson is lunching with his friend Jerry, a former studio exec, at a Malibu bistro, and it is over a series of meals with this friend that Linson recollects the most trying or memorable moments of his career. Linson is one of Hollywood's best known producers, with a 30-plus year career in Hollywood an...

A tale of what it is to make movies, this book explores, at close range, finicky directors, clueless executives, shameless marketers, famous actors, battered screenwriters, and hapless producers crossing paths in such calamitous ways that it's a miracle these films get made at all.