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Tell Me How You Love The Picture

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From Publishers Weekly
From the buttoned-down world of the old studio system to the freewheeling global media business of today, film producer Feldman has seen it all. With Barton's help, he spins an entertaining, often hilarious yarn of bottom-line–obsessed executives, impossibly vain movie stars and hardworking, even courageous, filmmakers all engaged in the process of keeping the seats filled in movie theaters around the world. Beginning as a publicist at Twentieth Century–Fox in New York in the 1950s, Feldman climbs the ladder of the Hollywood hierarchy, moving from company to company, project to project, oversized personality to even more oversized personality. He bumps heads with famed producer Joseph E. Levine, a man so conceited he insists Feldman include fawning mention of him in every press release. Feldman parties in '60s swinging London, with Peter Sellers setting him up with a Swedish beauty. Later he ushers Harrison Ford to global superstardom with 1985's hit film Witness. Told in a breezy style, this tale of the pleasures and pains of life in the Hollywood food chain will delight casual readers and give more serious film-business buffs yet another reason to love the movies and the people who make them. Photos. (Jan.)
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Reviews

"Brilliant but True"! Bob Woodward, Washington Post editor and New York Times bestselling author. --Bob Woodward

"Ed Feldman is a Hollywood institution. From the unique perspective of his remarkable career, he paints a vivid, passionate, shrewd, funny and ultimately affectionate picture of movies and the people who make the".m --Glenn Close

Customer Review by Howard Tucker

World-Record Great Voices and a Wonderful Story of the Movie Industry over the Past 5 Decades

I've heard the book twice now. I obtained the CD set initially looking to hear Christian Hoff's Guinness world-record 241 voices, which are amazing, but I was treated to a wonderful story by publicist/producer Ed Feldman, with collaborators Tom Barton and Jimmy Merrill, as well.

The audiobook took me through the last half-century, concentrating as much on Bette Davis, John Wayne, Cary Grant and Barbra Streisand as on Harrison Ford, Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey, and Glenn Close--with wonderful backstories about Murphy in "The Golden Child" and Close in "101 Dalmations."

The stories were thrilling, so much so that I sat in my parked car not wanting to interrupt the wonderful story-telling of the antics on the set of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" or the casting challenge of Barbara Streisand in "Funny Girl." Christian Hoff brings Bette Davis and Joan Crawford back to life, and does a magnificent Streisand inflection.

And I also finally learned exactly what a producer does, as Ed (Christian) takes us through his own wonderful experience of producing Harrison Ford's and Kelly McGillis's "Witness", from having no major studio interest to 8 Academy Award nominations, including one for Ed himself.

I also finally learned what a "producer" actually does. Basically, he "fixes" problems and is the general manager of the film. One thing a producer doesn't do, though, is put his/her own money into a production! Funny, all these years, I've thought the producer was putting his/her monies at risk along with mine!!

But the best part of "Tell Me How You Love the Picture" is personal, describing how Ed met and married Lorraine, literally the girl next door in the Bronx as Ed was growing up, and how they've now been together for 53 years.

Great job, Ed, Tom and Jimmy. And absolutely marvelous story-telling and voice creation, Christian. These stories are a great and wonderful education in the movie industry over the past 50 years. Worth every penny.

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