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"Making movies, like all high stakes careers, resembles sumo wrestling. Five-hundred-pound gorillas try to push you out of the box and you have to hold your ground," says Lynda Obst in her Tinsel Town tragicomedy Hello, He Lied: And Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches.
When Obst left the hallowed halls of The New York Times for the glitzy high life of La-La Land, she discovered that there was no safe haven, that you had to learn to "navigate the main stream where many are willing to lie, cheat, and steal for any opportunity." She not only learned to swim with the sharks, she learned to outshark the sharks, and take a few bites herself.
She reads fast, with a punchy delivery, offering her advice and hard-won wisdom as though she were giving you personal lessons in how to become a movie producer. It's an insightful insider's view, stylish and savvy, full of the dirt we all want to hear about stars, studios, directors, hits and misses. But I, for one, am not going to pack my bags and catch the last train for the Coast; this is a life better observed than lived.
Sukey Howard reports on spoken word audio each month. Don't miss her audio book reviews on CNN's Sunday Morning.
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