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Summary: SONY taken by surprise by Hollywood movers!
Review: A great read about Jon Peters and Peter Guber and the moving and shaking going on in the Hollywood movie industry. The book goes in to great detail about how they courted Sony, and ultimatly brought them to their knees. Mr. Peters and Mr. Guber are highly interesting and flamboyant personalities, and it sure makes a treat to read about them involving in relationships ranging from people like Barbara Streisand, Jack Nicholson, Steven Spielberg, Danny DeVito, Arnold, Heidi Fleiss to the Sony founder and they all have to break a sweat to keep up with those guys antics!!
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Summary: Hard to Put Down
Review: Fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood dealmaking, mainly about Sony's unrelenting (and costly) desire to become a major player in Hollywood. This book points out how good business sense, contacts, timing and greed are what it really takes to get to the top in Hollywood, although not necessarily in that order - as long as you have someone like Jon Peters on your side.
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Summary: Fascinating illustration of testosterone on steroids!
Review: Feeling like a skinny wimp brushing sand off your face? Instead of Charles Atlas reach for a copy of "Hit and Run".This brillantly written account of Peter Guber and Jon Peters assent in Hollywood culiminating with their co-chairmenship of Sony Pictures is a true how-to for anyone short on personal chutzpah. Details of Guber and Peters personal interaction skills in- cluding verbal assaults and tantrums on desktops will get even the meekest reader's blood pumping and send them off in search of their own victim. As a business professional I found Griffin and Masters' book chronicling the pathetic waste and destruction left behind by this duo to be one of the best business books I've read in a long time. And I found the depiction of their in-your-face management style to be a refreshing respite from mild-mannered Dilbert. In addition to a primer on the Sony company and the highly competitive consumer electronics industry the book is chock full of juicy tidbits on the 'stars'. (Check out Jack Nicholson's advice to Kim Basinger on the set of 'Batman' concerning her 'performance' with Jon Peters.) Possessing extreme self-confidence, tenacity, and greed, Jon Peters and Peter Guber exemplify the best and worst of achieving the American Dream in "Hit and Run."
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Summary: Fascinating illustration of testosterone on steroids!
Review: Feeling like a skinny wimp brushing sand off your face? Instead of Charles Atlas reach for a copy of "Hit and Run".
This brillantly written account of Peter Guber and Jon Peters
assent in Hollywood culiminating with their co-chairmenship
of Sony Pictures is a true how-to for anyone short on personal
chutzpah. Details of Guber and Peters personal interaction skills in-
cluding verbal assaults and tantrums on desktops will get
even the meekest reader's blood pumping and send them off in search of their own victim. As a business professional I found Griffin and Masters' book chronicling the pathetic waste and destruction left behind by this duo to be one of the best business books I've read in a long time. And I
found the depiction of their in-your-face management style
to be a refreshing respite from mild-mannered Dilbert.
In addition to a primer on the Sony company and the highly
competitive consumer electronics industry the book is chock
full of juicy tidbits on the 'stars'. (Check out Jack Nicholson's advice to Kim Basinger on the set of 'Batman'
concerning her 'performance' with Jon Peters.) Possessing extreme self-confidence, tenacity, and greed, Jon Peters and Peter Guber exemplify the best and worst of
achieving the American Dream in "Hit and Run."
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Summary: A true-life hollywood horror story
Review: Griffin and Masters have done a remarkable job of portraying the childishness of Hollywood executives. Read this if you think you may want a career making movies. If the motion picture industy is filled with men like Peters and Guber, (and I suspect it is), Hollywood is a scary, scary place.
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Summary: An essential book on Hollywood
Review: Halfway through this title, I thought it was a good read and I was happy I picked it up. At the end of the book I realized there is only one word for it: essential. Masters & Griffin seize on extraordinary story--Guber's and Peters's rise to executive status--and make it better. Filled with fabulous anecdotes, such as the celebration of an obese company vice president falling into a swimming pool while Peters cheered, this book is recommended for anyone who wants a primer on how business in Hollywood is, occasionally, done.
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Summary: FAST reading
Review: I read this book three years ago and I'm still laughing. Griffin & Masters have created THE required reading book on everything that is wrong with Hollywood. They were able to tell the inside stories of multi-million dollar deals and make them understandable. Jon Peters, a barely literate hairdresser who happened to be friends with Barbara Streisand, and his business partner Peter Guber schmoozed their way through the 80s and were picked by Sony to run their newly acquired Columbia/Tri-Star pictures. Billions of dollars in losses later (Last Action Hero, I'll Do Anything) they got kicked out. It is really an incredible story. If it was fiction, you'd think it completly impossible to believe, but it is all true.
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Summary: The funniest non-fiction book you will ever read
Review: I read this book three years ago and I'm still laughing. Griffin & Masters have created THE required reading book on everything that is wrong with Hollywood. They were able to tell the inside stories of multi-million dollar deals and make them understandable. Jon Peters, a barely literate hairdresser who happened to be friends with Barbara Streisand, and his business partner Peter Guber schmoozed their way through the 80s and were picked by Sony to run their newly acquired Columbia/Tri-Star pictures. Billions of dollars in losses later (Last Action Hero, I'll Do Anything) they got kicked out. It is really an incredible story. If it was fiction, you'd think it completly impossible to believe, but it is all true.
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Summary: A VERY GOOD BOOK!!!!
Review: i thought it was a good book,i couldn't put it down. nice
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Summary: FAST reading
Review: I was totally engrossed in this book. Flew through it. I thought it was too cool that I found this in hardcover in... store! Best [$$] I ever spent!
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