Method To The Madness (Hollywood Explained) - Softcover

Atkins, Dick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0915618095 ISBN 13: 9780915618095

Publisher: Prince Publishers, 1975

Synopsis

A guide to the pieces that make up the business and people of Hollywood, circa 1975. Come with me on a tour through Hollywood, through the movie business, through television. Is it all madness? Possibly. Does it all make any sense? Most of the time. But when the conversation turns to Hollywood (and it does, doesn't it?), how much do you really know about it? Do you know about the fabled film studios - Universal, MGM, 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Columbia, United Artists - what they do and how they came about? Do you know about the TV networks - CBS, NBC, ABC - and how they control Hollywood? Do you know on which stars Hollywood banks its money? Do you know what directors do? producers? writers? agents? Do you know how a movie like The Towering Inferno is made, step by step? How about a television series like Kojak? Do you know about video-discs and videocassettes, and why we're all going to be using them? Come with me, and the top Hollywood writers I have assembled, and find out. Find out in a book written so that you can understand it all, so that when the next conversation turns to Hollywood, you'll know. with 34 photos

About this title

About the Author

Dick Atkins has been producing and writing movies and television for many years. He was producer of the independent feature film Asunder, starring Blair Underwood, Debbie Morgan and Michael Beach, and was producer and writer of the feature Forced March, which starred Chris Sarandon and Josef Sommer, and filmed in Hungary. He produced numerous movies for network and syndicated television, with stars including Angela Lansbury, Lee Remick, Johnny Cash, Andy Griffith, Marsha Mason, Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Steenburgen, Ron Silver, and Kenny Rogers; a health & lifestyle cable series; and three documentaries (directing one featuring Richard Gere.) He has served as a programming and production consultant for CBS/60 Minutes, King World Productions, Hearst Entertainment, Whittle Communications, DMB&B, and Le Quartier Latin of Paris. Prior to producing, he was in charge of Daytime Programming for Benton & Bowles advertising in New York (now DMB&B), where he was responsible for overseeing three daytime “soaps” owned by Procter & Gamble (Another World and Texas on NBC & Edge of Night on ABC.) Mr. Atkins also designed computer budgeting and accounting software that have been used on more than twenty-five motion pictures and mini-series, and licensed to a dozen movie production companies and one of the industry’s largest movie payroll companies. His bio appears in Who’s Who... in America, ...in the World, ...in the East, ...in Entertainment, and ...of Emerging Leaders in America. He holds a B.A. in politics from Princeton University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prince Publishers
• Publication date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0915618095
• ISBN 13: 9780915618095
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208