The Devil's Guide to Hollywood by Joe Eszterhas

The Devil's Guide to Hollywood by Joe Eszterhas

In The Devil's Guide to Hollywood, bestselling author and legendary bad-boy screenwriter Joe Eszterhas tells everything he knows about the industry, its players and screenwriting itself--from the first blank sheet of paper in the Olivetti to the size of the credit on the one-sheet.

"There's just one hunk of funny anecdote after another, quotes from everyone who ever mattered in the movie biz, and the thing is jam-packed with screenwriterly advice. Plus it's hilariously funny, ribald, sexy and brilliant."--Liz Smith

Often practical and always entertaining, The Devil's Guide to Hollywood distills everything one of Hollywood's most accomplished screenwriters knows about the business, from writing advice to negotiation tricks, from the wisdom of past players to the feuds of current ones. Eszterhas has selected his personal pantheon of the most loved and loathed players in the business and treats the reader to a treasure trove of stories, quotes and wisdom from those luminaries, who include William Goldman (loathes) and Zsa Zsa Gabor (loves).

The Devil's Guide to Hollywood could only have been written by someone who loves the business as much as Eszterhas does--but who also has its number.

"Eszterhas delivers a dishy, catty mix of reminiscences and Hollywood trivia...his forte is skewering sycophants and phonies in this opinionated showcase of the underside of Hollywood life."--Publishers Weekly

When Joe Eszterhas co-wrote this book, he was twenty-five years old and had been with the Cleveland Plain Dealer for three years. For his coverage of the Silver Bridge accident, he received the Cleveland Press Club Award and the Ohio Associated Press Award in 1968. In 1969, he wrote a six-part piece for Life magazine about the My Lai massacre, for which he got an Associated Press Award in 1970. From 1971 until 1975, he worked as a senior editor at Rolling Stone magazine. He's authored screenplays for a number of important Hollywood films, including Basic Instinct in 1992, and nonfiction works such as Hollywood Animal, an autobiography, and Crossbearer: A Memoir of Faith.