Opening Shots

by Damien Bona (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $8.18

  It's one of Hollywood's favorite myths: the unknown discovered at Scwab's who overnight becomes America's new star. But the reality of breaking into the movies is much chancier, and for the reader, a lot more entertaining. There's Jeff Goldblum rampaging for five minutes as Freak #1 in Death Wish (1974). Bette Davis playing the good sister in Bad Sister (1931). Kevin Kostner turning up in a soft-core drive-in special called Sizzle Beach, U.S.A. (1978), and Melanie Griffith as a precociously sexual Beverly Hills teen in the moody classic Night Moves (1973). In this compulsively readable book of film lore, Damien Bona chronicles the debuts of over 70 Hollywood stars - warts and all. It's better than popcorn.