A book that sees Hollywood as an idea, a trick, a religion even that swept the world, a book that knows what the bosses did, and why and how, but which also feels the impact on the mass audiences in the dark auditoriums. There isn't a book that explains - even at a basic level - how the business, the money, of pictures operates. THE WHOLE EQUATION takes the history and describes the grand panorama so that the reader knows how he or she fitted in, along with Bogart, the Marx Brothers and Daryl Zanuck. The business is the ...
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A book that sees Hollywood as an idea, a trick, a religion even that swept the world, a book that knows what the bosses did, and why and how, but which also feels the impact on the mass audiences in the dark auditoriums. There isn't a book that explains - even at a basic level - how the business, the money, of pictures operates. THE WHOLE EQUATION takes the history and describes the grand panorama so that the reader knows how he or she fitted in, along with Bogart, the Marx Brothers and Daryl Zanuck. The business is the neglected aspect of the story, neglected because its truths threaten the alleged magic, the romance of the movies. Yet, the money is the true sexual secret of Hollywood, and David Thomson leaves the reader quite clear, that amid all the hype and pretension, we should always 'follow the money'.
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Blame it on my wife whose bio-mania brought the Nicole Kidman biography by David Thomson into our house. I could tell its style was well beyond just 'pop', and each chapter ventured more and more into reasonably-inferred psychological suppositions that gave unusual depth to a celebrity figure. And, despite his observational distance, there came from Thomson himself a sense of depth to his own mind as it developed in examining Kidman.
Very, very good writing.
So I bought his earlier, more comprehensive work, The Whole Equation. This guy knows his Hollywood, brings psychological keenness I rarely see in any work of any kind, and even in mentioning anecdotal material that has passed by me before, gives that a context and elaboration totally fresh.
