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In 1967, John Gregory Dunne asked for unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox. Miraculously, he got it. For one year Dunne went everywhere there was to go and talked to everyone worth talking to within the studio. He tracked every step of the creation of pictures like "Dr. Dolittle," "Planet of the Apes," and "The Boston Strangler." The result is a work of reportage that, thirty years later, may still be our most minutely observed and therefore most uproariously funny portrait of the motion picture business. Whether he is recounting a showdown between Fox's studio head and two suave shark-like agents, watching a producer's girlfriend steal a silver plate from a restaurant, or shielding his eyes against the glare of a Hollywood premiere where the guests include a chimp in a white tie and tails, Dunne captures his subject in all its showmanship, savvy, vulgarity, and hype. Not since F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West has anyone done Hollywood better. "Reads as racily as a novel...(Dunne) has a novelist's ear for speech and eye for revealing detail...Anyone who has tiptoed along those corridors of power is bound to say that Dunne's impressionism rings true."--Los Angeles Times Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group


Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 14, 1998


Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 272 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0375700080


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 88


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.19 x 0.62 x 8 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #688,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #71 in Movie Industry #145 in Performing Arts Industry #160 in Entertainment Industry


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    • Fascinating and still timely
Format: Paperback
In 1967, journalist John Gregory Dunne was granted unprecedented access to Twentieth Century Fox film studios to produce his book The Studio. And actually, during the same time period, writer William Goldman was examining the season of plays on Broadway, for which he subsequently published his book The Season. So. we have intense accounts of two examples of the theatrical arts—the film industry and Broadway theater— during the same months, and both are enlightening. What immediately stood out to me, a gay man, is that these books, written when the Gay civil rights movement was in its budding stages, not only point out that we LGBTQ+ individuals have been prominent in the entertainment industry for eons, but also that it was common, as proven by these books, that an outdated epithet used for homosexuals was also common then. A book written today would not use that word unless there was a negative reason for doing so. That being said, Dunne’s book is a marvel. Written during the year that Fox studios were producing movies such as Dr. Dolittle, Hello Dolly!, and The Boston Strangler, there is plenty of name-dropping, with celebrities like Barbra Streisand, Rex Harrison, and Tony Curtis figuring heavily in the narrative. But “gossip” is not only present. The book shows us the inner-workings of a film studio (most probably not simply tied to that era) and how the executives worked and thought. The book is fascinating. What also struck me is that it is amazing that some of them lived long lives, not perishing from lung cancer. It seems that every one of them (most are men, although Irene Sharaff, the costume designer comes into play as well) are constantly smoking. Pipes are continually being tapped, their stems being chewed. Cigars provide billows of face-concealing clouds of smoke. Cigarettes are smoked, stubbed out, and new ones lit. So, with the homosexuals being called a derogatory term and smoking being oh-so-prevalent, the book is definitely dated. But its message and look at the industry is relevant, and quite entertaining. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2026 by Russell J. Sanders
    • Vey interesting well-written book
Format: Paperback
I thought I would read this after reading several of Joan Didion' s books. I' m glad I did. To discover the concern and attention that so many, well-paid adults demonstrate over the profit potential for movies meant for children isn't surprising, but somehow reinforces the power of the "almighty dollar" over everything. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2022 by Benjamin G. Paskus
    • Death of an Art Form
Format: Paperback
I loved the Doctor Dolittle books when I was a child, but I had no desire to see the Hollywood musical based on it when it came out in 1967. Although I'd loved movie musicals like Annie Get Your Gun and Singin' in the Rain even before I'd started reading Doctor Dolittle, books, I knew any I saw in 1967 would be, somehow, lifeless. Why did the Hollywood musical more or less die out as an art form after 1960? That question is one of the things The Studio touches on, although it doesn't focus on it. It's more about the business end of Hollywood, and its concentration on the Doctor Dolittle musical seems fortuitous-- it's just what happened to be on the table when Dunne got the ok to write the book. But I wish it could have been more about the artistic reasons for the Doctor Dolittle musical's failure, because that's more important than its business failure. It would be an oversimplified cliche to say that the Hollywood musical failed as art because it became more of a business, but there may be some truth in it. Dunne's book certainly doesn't unearth much artistic motivation, although he doesn't seem to be looking for it. It's a good, deadpan satire of Hollywood businessmen, but it could have been more. Not that the businessmen were all that bad. Dunne seems to have rather liked most of them, and, compared to today's industry, there was a kind of innocent generosity in their willingness to spend 18 million dollars on a movie about a man who loved animals so much he learned to talk with them. When an animal appears in a movie today, chances are that the plot calls for people to kill it in some nasty way, or vice versa. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2013 by A Customer
    • So good
Format: Kindle
One of those books I didn't want to end, so engaging is the writing. I recommend it highly for anyone who loves Hollywood logistics and great, acerbic commentary.
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2019 by Julie
    • Best book ever written about the workings of a studio.
Format: Hardcover
Best book ever written about the workings of a studio. Mid sixties and covers Planet of the Apes, Doctor Dolittle and some great TV from Irwin Allen. I doubt anyone will be given access like this again.
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2015 by JCN
    • Fascinating window into the last days of the old studio system
Format: Paperback
This book is a pointed description of the workings of 20th Century Fox in 1966, a year fascinating mostly for how lousy and forgettable the studio’s movies were. Most of the films discussed in this book were released in 1967 or 1968, if at all. The only real successes among them were Planet of the Apes and Valley of the Dolls. The year’s two tentpole productions, Dr. Dolittle and Star!, failed in the market. So there isn’t much here for fans of cinema, but those with an interest in studio politics and personalities will find much to like. Dunne found the producers, writers, and studio executives that he dealt with to be pompous and ignorant, and he quotes them in this book often to emphasize their failings. Only a few people, choreographer Michael Kidd among them, come out unscathed. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2024 by Neurasthenic
    • Outstanding Story of How a Movie Studio Functions
Format: Paperback
One of the best ever depictions of a movie studio in action. The author was given full access to what went on at Twentieth Century Fox, and uses his literary skills to fine advantage to give a full view of the successes and (especially) the failures of those in charge. Written with great insight and humor. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2015 by Larry Gevirtz
    • A tame look at the studios
Format: Paperback
Unlike the other reviewers here, I thought the book (considering when it was written) is a bit of tame, high-level overview of the studio workings. I didn't find it boring, nor did I find it to be a great page-turner. I would have preferred a more in-depth review of the studio workings. However, it was interesting to read the names from the past and the TV shows that were described...Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea...and the movies...Dr. Doolittle, Planet of the Apes...and more. I did find the parts on how Richard Zanuck decided which movies would get made and which ones didn't to be interesting - pretty much a gut feeling and a whim. I think this book is only for diehard studio fans and not the casual reader of Hollywood history. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2011 by jbw857

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