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	1.	Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood   Griffin, Nancy; Masters, Kim Good. Hardcover. 1st edition HARDCOVER w/ dustjacket 1996 Simon & Schuster. Clean; no marks; pages bright; binding tight. Average wear. 479pp, Index, Source Notes, B/W photos. NOTE: Cannot ship outside U.S. via Global Priority -- Surface or Airmail only. 'The pretension and behind-the-scenes machinations within the motion-picture industry can sometimes be more unreal or more entertaining than the actual products Hollywood creates. A perfect example is the story of Guber, Peters, and Sony. In an attempt to gain a foothold in Hollywood and with much hoopla, Sony hired the duo in 1989 to run its newly acquired Columbia Pictures. The two, after all, had produced--or been involved with--The Color Purple, Batman, Rain Man, The Way We Were, Shampoo, etc. Chauvinistic fears that the management-savvy Japanese would come to dominate Hollywood in the same way they had Detroit soon vanished after initial successes gave way to expensive box-office duds. Through it all, Guber and Peters treated themselves lavishly--even by Hollywood standards--and, in all, Sony lost billions. Griffin, Premiere magazine's West Coast editor, and Masters, Washington Post reporter and Vanity Fair contributor, provide the juicy details of what went wrong....'--David Rouse, Booklist. Price: 12.00 USD
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