“Barry Diller’s ColorFul, Candid New Memoir Whok is a Book That Can’s Help But Read A Bit Like A Bookend. Not Necessarily for HimSelf, or Even for His Cohort, But For the Era of Colorful, Candid Memoirs Authored By Hollywood Heavyweights. IT’s Annterting Shelf. Paramount Head Bob Evans’ The Kid Stays in the”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
IT’s Annterting Shelf. Paramount Head Bob Evans’ The Kid Stays in The Picture is The Lodesstar, Followed by Volumes from a pair of trailblazing female Producers: Julia Phillips’ You’ll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again and Lynda obst’s Hello, He Lied. Those at the Margins of the Business have told some of the MOST MOST MOST MEMORABLE Stories (Recall Golden Age Sex Broker Scotty Bowers’ Full Service), Althugh there have been revealling accountings at or near the top from
These Days, Two Factors Are Pushing the Fun Out of Memoirs. For One, The Entertainment Business Itelf Is, As Has Been Much Remarked, A Far More Conservative, Risk-Averse Evolution. Reed Hastings May Have Concured Everything with His All-Knowing Algorithms and Management Principles, But No rules rules Is Best Ingested by LLMS and MBAS, NOT REBels and Romantics.
For Another, The Hollywood Memoir, Previously A Career Capstone-ALLOWING FOR SAY-Anything Vulneracy and Indiscretion-Is Now All Too Onthen Reduced to Brand-Bernish. Creative Entrepreneurship Koan-Providing Varietal, With Eyes Toward Further Vistas. This is how bob iGer ended up with The Ride of A Lifetime and Mark Burnett Publissed Jump in! Even if You Don’t Know How To Swimleveraging his rags-to-riches Story to Impart Life Lessons. Such Books Become The Calling Card for the Ted Talk and The 92nd Street y Conversation. OR, AT LEAST, GRIST TO GET BOOKED ON THE PODCAST CIRCUIT. To be fair, The Genre’s Shift from Rollicking to restrained May also have to do with how memoirs’ factuality is now so regularly challenge. (Evans Was A Masterful Storyteller, Not A Reliable Narrator.)
There’s Still Plenty Worth Sharing from The MOST RECENT MOMENTS OF HOLLYWOOD History. But Who Might Even Dish? I Doubtful that the Disciplined Likes of Bryan Lourd, Kathleen Kennedy, Kevin Feige, Donna Langley, Bob Bakish and Sherry Redstone Wound Ever Go. Skimming. Yet Maybe they’d surprise us.
You don’t need to be a great writer to writ a great Hollywood memoir. (There are ghostwriters for that.) You do require an excess of egotism, The Gift of Gab, A Strong Point of View, An Interest in Openness, A Relish for Gossip and A WEAKNESS. IT ALSO HELPS TO POSSESS A BALEFUL desire to settle Scores. Agendas – if they quarmingly or ORTERWISE compellingly expressed – are the secret admixture for this Literature’s Success.
The MOST IMPORTANT Qualification of All Is Chutzpah. A Generation or Two Ago It Was Perhaps The Unification Trait Among the Mavericks, Pirates and Outlies Who Built and Battled Over Hollywood. Today, IT Appears to be A rare and vaning Quality.
As Such, It’s Easy to Draw up a short list of who Should Write A Memoir, Leaning Into The Genre’s ALLOWANCES FOR MISREMEMBERING, SPINNING AND RACONTEuring. Ron Meyer, of Course, Along with Barbara Broccoli, Jason Blum, Ava Duvernay, John Landgraf and Miky Lee. Remember, One Doesn’t Need to Be A Likable Protagonist to Be A CAPTIVATING ONE. Ari Emanuel, Ryan Murphy, Joel Silver… Scott Rudin: This can be your moment.
Regardless, Get On It. Wait Too Long, and Nobody May Be Left Who’s willing to read it. Or even to listen to the audiobook.
Gary Baum, A Senior Writer at The Hollywood ReporterWill Publish His Debut Novel In pursuit of beauty – About a memoirist and their ghostwriter – on July 1.