High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess - Hardcover

Fleming, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385486944 ISBN 13: 9780385486941

Publisher: Doubleday, 1998

Synopsis

A look at the life, career, and death of Hollywood bad boy Don Simpson, one of the most successful independent film producers in history, explores how he built a power base in the 1980s and 1990s that continues to this day

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About the Author

Charles Fleming has reported exclusively on the business of Hollywood for more than ten years--as a staff writer for the <i>Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Variety,</i> and <i>Newsweek.</i>  As a freelance reporter, he has written extensively for <i>Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly,</i> and <i>TV Guide.</i>  He lives in Los Angeles.

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it and Run</i> was to Hollywood financial impropriety, and what <i>You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again</i> was to sex, drugs, and self-destruction, <i>High Concept</i> is to the evolution of today's driving business philosophy and simultaneous back-lot grotesqueries of the contemporary entertainment industry.<br><br>Using the life and career of producer Don Simpson as a point of departure, <i>High Concept</i> takes readers on a riveting journey inside the Hollywood of the 1980s and 1990s.  Throughout the period, Simpson and his partner, Jerry Bruckheimer, were the most successful independent producers in the history of moviemaking, responsible for the hit films <i>Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Crimson Tide, Bad Boys,</i> and <i>The Rock.</i>  Widely credited with the genesis of the "tentpole," or "event," business strategy, which could make a studio's year in a single shot, Simpson had an uncanny ability to

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385486944
• ISBN 13: 9780385486941
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294